1 |
Closing The English Language Proficiency Gap In Post-Secondary Education In Canada
|
|
|
|
In: Dissertations (2021)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
2 |
Toward a Corridista Consciousness: Learning From One Transnational Youth's Critical Reading, Writing, and Performance of Mexican Corridos
|
|
|
|
In: Reading Research Quarterly, vol 53, iss 4 (2018)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
3 |
Input-rich Writing Tasks and Student Writing on an English Language Proficiency Test
|
|
|
|
In: Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language Dissertations (2017)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
4 |
Survival of the Fittest: The Role of Linguistic Modification in Nursing Education
|
|
|
|
In: UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (2015)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
5 |
"Upward Bound is College Bound": Pre-College Outreach Programs' Sponsorship of Academic Writing
|
|
|
|
In: Doctoral Dissertations (2015)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
6 |
High school teacher perspectives and practices: second language writing and language development
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
7 |
Written Corrective Feedback: A Review of Studies since Truscott (1996)
|
|
|
|
In: Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 69-84 (2015) (2015)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
8 |
"I Don't Know if That Was the Right Thing to Do": Cross-Disciplinary/Cross-Institutional Faculty Respond to L2 Writing
|
|
|
|
In: Publications (2014)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
9 |
Academic language socialisation in high school writing conferences
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
10 |
Second-language writer and instructor perceptions of the effectiveness of a curriculum-integrated research skills library guide ; Master of Arts
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
11 |
BUT IT'S JUST ONE CENT! Middle School ELLs Practice Critical Literacy in Support of Migrant Farmworkers
|
|
|
|
In: Communication Disorders Faculty Publications (2012)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
12 |
Negative Transfer in the Writing of Proficient Students of Russian: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners
|
|
|
|
In: Dissertations and Theses (2012)
|
|
Abstract:
This study explored the phenomenon of negative transfer from English in the writing of proficient heritage vs. second language learners of Russian. Although a number of studies have examined negative transfer from English into Russian, and other studies have compared the performance of heritage language learners (HLLs) to second language learners (SLLs), little research has investigated the phenomenon of negative transfer in the writing of both HLLs and SLLs and compared the two groups. Thus, this study employed an exploratory approach to empirically investigate the differences in language transfer between the two groups of learners. Specifically, the study addressed the following questions: (1) What are the most common types of negative transfer from English that occur in the writing of students of Russian at the Intermediate High - Advanced levels? (2) Are there differences in types and amount of negative transfer used by HLLs vs. SLLs at comparable levels of proficiency? If so, what are the differences? The research was conducted at the Russian Flagship Program at Portland State University. Participants were 13 advanced students of Russian - 6 heritage speakers of Russian and 7 native speakers of English. The study analyzed the written work of students completed during one quarter. Errors were coded into 13 categories that emerged from the data and frequencies were compared between the groups. The results found that none of the errors were more frequent than 5 per 1000 words. The most common categories were semantic extension, commas after an introductory phrase, lexical borrowings, and null subject errors. However, some categories of errors were associated with only one group, SLL or HLL, and some were not. Specifically, the categories of null subject errors, loan translations, conjunction "yesli/li" (if/whether), adjectives for nationality, and negation errors were found only in the writing of second language learners. There were only two categories limited to the group of heritage language learners: conceptual shift and number errors. The categories of semantic extension, comma after an introductory phrase, lexical borrowings, reflexive possessive pronoun "svoj", capitalization, and preposition errors were found in writing of both groups of students. Overall, second language learners made more transfer errors that heritage learners. Ultimately, this study will be of interest to anyone interested in heritage and second language acquisition of Russian, language transfer in learners of Russian, or the teaching of advanced language courses.
|
|
Keyword:
English as a second language; Heritage language speakers; Negative transfer; Russian language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States; Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching; Writing
|
|
URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/507 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1506&context=open_access_etds
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
13 |
Reading an ESL writer's text
|
|
|
|
In: English Faculty Publications (2009)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
14 |
Exploring Writing of English Language Learners in Middle School: A Mixed Methods Study
|
|
|
|
In: Communication Disorders Faculty Publications (2009)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
15 |
Teaching ESL/EFL University Students to Read and Write Critically: The Case of Textbooks
|
|
|
|
In: English and Linguistics Faculty Presentations (2008)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|