Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Acquisition

By A. Moyer. 2004

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Contextualizing critical period inquiry accounting for universal and individual factors in ultimate attainment - focus on phonology verifying the relative strength of maturation, L2 experience and psychological orientation - the quantitative findings understanding identity, intention, and opportunities for L2 contact - the qualitative findings conclusions and proposals for future research.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Willingness to Communicate in Intercultural Interactions between Chinese and Americans (2008, background): “While no previous studies have investigated the relationship between immersion time and WTC, some evidence suggests that fluency of speaking second language is positively related to the length of residence in the target-language country (Moyer, 2004).”
ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE PRODUCTION OF UNSTRESSED ENGLISH VOWELS BY EARLY AND LATE KOREAN AND JAPANESE BILINGUALS (2006, background): “…nativelike manner might result from the quality of L2 input ~Flege & Liu, 2001! and from the amount of L1 and L2 use ~Guion, Flege, & Loftin, 2000; Moyer, 2004!+ Additionally, factors that are known to affect SLA, such as length of residence and L2 use, are often naturally confounded with age of…”
Speaking With a Nonnative Accent: Perceptions of Bias, Communication Difficulties, and Belonging in the United States (2010, background): “Having a nonnative accent may lead speakers to question whether they are accepted in a community (Moyer, 2004; Skachkova, 2007), whereas individuals with regional native accents, which are less likely to interfere with communication (Adank, Evans, Stuart-Smith, & Scott, 2009; Floccia, Goslin,…”
IDENTIFYING A FOREIGN ACCENT IN AN UNFAMILIAR LANGUAGE (2007, background): “…& Liu, 2000!, length of residence ~Asher & García; Flege & Fletcher, 1992!, formal instruction ~Derwing & Rossiter, 2003; Moyer, 1999!, experience ~Moyer, 2004!, comprehensibility ~Derwing, Rossiter, Munro, & Thomson, 2004; Major, Fitzmaurice, Bunta, & Balasubramanian, 2002, 2005; Van…”
Age of onset, length of residence, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment in three linguistic domains (2013, background): “…to younger and older learners (e.g. Bialystok and Hakuta, 1999; Flege et al., 1995; Moyer, 2009), and differences in their affective profiles (e.g. Moyer, 2004) and cognitive maturity (e.g. Newport, 1990), have all been proposed, but in the opinion of most reviewers (e.g. DeKeyser and…”
Age Effects in Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better Understanding (2013, background): “…investigated how specific aptitudes and other individual characteristics such as various affective and conative variables (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2009; Moyer, 1999, 2004) as well as identity issues (Caldas & Caron-Caldas, 2002; Cheung, Chudek, & Heine, 2011) mitigate the age factor, and what impact…”
Pronunciation Issues and EIL Pedagogy in the Periphery: A Survey of Greek State School Teachers' Beliefs (2005, background): “Pronunciation is an important feature of sociocultural identity to the extent that it is a linguistic characteristic acquired in childhood, solidified in early adolescence, and generally not considered to be under the adult’s conscious or immediate cognitive control (Moyer, 2004).”
Weighing the benefits of studying a foreign language at a younger starting age in a minimal input situation (2008, background): “…others arguing for more socio-psychological factors such as quantity and quality of input, motivation and affective variables (Jia et al., 2002; Moyer, 2004), and some claiming that it is due to general cognitive declines that continue over the lifespan (Bialystok and Miller, 1999; Birdsong,…”
Do Language Attitudes Determine Accent? A Study of Bilinguals in the USA (2007, background): “…observable constraints are a result of actual language experience, e.g. limited contact with native speakers resulting in a lack of interactive use of the target language, etc. (Flege & Liu, 2001; Jia & Aaronson, 1999; Moyer, 2004, 2007b, forthcoming a; Thompson, 1991; Yeni-Komshian et al., 2000).”
Contrasting Effects of Starting Age and Input on the Oral Performance of Foreign Language Learners (2014, background): “…because it does not account for individual differences in exposure/use and orientations in relation at San Francisco State U niversity on July 2, 2014 http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from to L2 and L2 speakers (see Moyer 2004, 2009; Flege 2009; Muñoz and Singleton 2011).”
Learners' Ethnic Group Affiliation and L2 Pronunciation Accuracy: A Sociolinguistic Investigation (2005, background): “Originally investigated for their effects on general L2 proficiency, these factors have recently been studied in the context of L2 pronunciation learning (Moyer, 1999, 2004).”
Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research- Based Approach. (2005, background): “native-like speech patterns, this phenomenon appears to be restricted to a very small number of highly motivated individuals (Moyer, 2004) and to those with special aptitude (Ioup, Boustagi, El Tigi, & Moselle, 1994).”
Age and Second Language Acquisition and Processing: A Selective Overview (2006, background): “a native (Klein, 1995; Moyer, 2004; Piller, 2002).”