In recent years, researchers in second language acquisition (SLA) have paid increasing
attention to the sociocultural context of language learning. Studies have drawn from a variety …

This study investigates the production of the English interdental fricative [θ] by Chinese
learners of English, using a variationist framework. Twenty‐seven Chinese participants were …

In this paper we investigate the use of the English article system in two comparable learner
corpora, Chinese-English and Spanish-English. Such investigation is significant as article …

This study investigates whether second language (L2) phonological learning can be
characterized as a gradual and systematically patterned replacement of nonnative segments …

This study investigated the effect of L1 on the recognition of L2 Swedish inflected nouns.
Two groups of late L2 learners with typologically very different native languages, Hungarian …

This article examines the relationship between group and individual patterns of variation in
one area of the grammar: verbal morphology. The results of studies of the acquisition of …

In a world where an increasing amount of communication takes place in English among non-
native speakers, this study presents data from email exchanges to provide the first …

This study examines evidence for the hypothesis (eg, Muñoz, 2006) that an early starting
age is not necessarily more beneficial to the successful learning of L2 inflectional …

The goal of this paper is to discuss language experience in second language (L2)
phonological learning, with a particular focus on lexical frequency, attention to form, and …

Previous investigations of the variable marking of past time by the L2 learner have given rise
to a number of hypotheses which predict the patterns of acquisition and use of past time …