Second language learners face a dual challenge in vocabulary learning: First, they must
learn new names for the 100s of common objects that they encounter every day. Second …

Models are no new beasts to scholars of bilingualism. During the last several decades we
have seen many interesting and important models that postulate how the bilingual mind …

From antiquity to our century we may easily find evidence for an overwhelming bi-and
plurilingualism.“Language contact intruded into virtually every aspect of ancient life: eg, high …

Earlier research on first (L1) and second language acquisition (L2A) often focused on the
perceived nativeness of the learner as a function of age of onset of acquisition (AoA) …

This study investigated the perception and production of two L2 stop consonants, examining
the importance of lexical stress and motivation to learners' ability to discriminate and …

This research aims to reveal the relative clause attachment preference in L2 sentence
processing from the perspective of Indonesian learners of English. This objective is specified …

As theories and models for second language acquisition are still growing, the ongoing
debate about how languages are acquired continues. However, there is a theory that is …

Research in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has come up with various
different theories, such as Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) or Stephen Krashen's …

Linguistic geniuses such as Heinrich Schliemann have long fascinated many with their
exceptional capabilities to master multiple languages on top of their own mother tongues …

Nikolov to model the phenomenon that has been termed the Adult Language Learning
Paradox (Ottó, 2000; Ottó & Nikolov, 2009, 2012; Sokolik, 1990). ¹ Working in the …