Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, ...
Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest ...
Ortega Duran, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
The study of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), a phenomenon that emerges due to the interaction of different languages in the learners’ mind, has attracted the attention of SLA researchers since the ...
Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with ...
Safronova, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
Many second language (L2) learners find L2 pronunciation difficult and experience perception and production problems leading to accented speech. There exists a great inter-learner variation in L2 ...
Darnault, Bérénice (Date of defense: 2023-07-11)
[eng] In the context of an ageing and increasingly more independent learning population, a narrative inquiry into the life stories of highly motivated senior language users remains a promising yet ...
Mora Plaza, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2023-06-06)
[eng] Second language (L2) pronunciation learning in foreign language instructional contexts is particularly challenging due to insufficient quantity and quality of L2 input. Decades of L2 speech ...
Martín-Chazeaud, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)
In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age ...
Serfaty, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
[eng] According to research into second language (L2) practice, learners should repeatedly engage in output activities with feedback in order to develop accuracy. Digital flashcards can be used to prompt ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)
[eng] Multilingualism is one of the many effects of globalisation. The need to be proficient in several languages has sprung from people’s need to expand their universe outside their countries of origin ...