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Hierarchies of home language proficiency in the linguistically diverse primary school classroom : personal, social and contextual positioning Ghent University
Speech fluency in bilinguals who stutter : language proficiency and attentional demands as mediating factors Ghent University
Purpose: The current study examines how speech disfluencies manifest themselves in the two languages of bilingual persons who stutter, starting from the hypothesis that stuttering is associated with an attentional deficit at the level of speech production. Methods: Twenty-eight bilingual people who stutter performed a spontaneous and a controlled speech production task, once in their dominant and once in their non-dominant language. The ...
Teachers' perceptions of children's sport learning capacity predicts their fundamental movement skill proficiency Ghent University
The intrapersonal mechanism that drives and explains individual differences in motor development is still a relatively underexplored area of research. In this study, we set out to determine whether in teachers' perceptions, higher sport-learning capacity (SLC) is associated with the level of fundamental movement skills, and the changes therein over 24 weeks in 7-year-olds. We assessed 170 children from eight primary schools in the Netherlands ...
Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency - Investigating Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack of clarity as to how complexity, accuracy and fluency should be defined, operationalized and measured. The present volume showcases current research ...
Learning minimally different words in a third language: L2 proficiency as a crucial predictor of accuracy in an L3 word learning task. Ghent University
This study examines the effect of proficiency in the L2 (English) and L3 (Dutch) on word learning in the L3. Listeners were 92 L1 Spanish speakers with differing proficiencies in L2 and L3, and 20 native speakers of Dutch. The learners were divided into basic and advanced English and Dutch proficiency groups according to their scores on general listening comprehension language tests. Participants were trained and subsequently tested on the ...
Multilingual processing of relative clauses and foreign language proficiency Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Traditionally, one of the most prominently mentioned hypotheses to explain the difference in processing of subject and object relatives is that object relatives cause a greater working memory load. In our study, this hypothesis was tested. Twelve participants, who were native speakers (L1) of Dutch, were fluent in German (L2), and had recently started their acquisition of Norwegian (L3), entered the study. In addition, twelve native German and ...