Browsing by Subject "Second language acquisition"

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The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asian Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study

Adamson, H. D. (Hugh Douglas) ; Regan, Vera (Cambridge University Press, 1991-03)

We investigate Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the variable (ing), which occurs in progressive tenses, participles, noun phrases, etc., and which can be pronounced [iŋ] or [In]. A VARBRUL 2 program ...
The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Native Speech Norms: effects of a year abroad on L2 learners of French

Regan, Vera (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995)
Sociolinguistics and Language Learning in a Study Abroad Context

Regan, Vera (Dickinson College, 1998)

This article will focus on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence by second language learners during a period of study abroad. Various aspects of sociolinguistic competence will be discussed and some of the ...