This study aims to disclose how eye-tracking technology has been applied to studies of
learning, and what eye movement measures have been used for investigations by reviewing …

The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q) is a validated
questionnaire tool for collecting self-reported proficiency and experience data from bilingual …

In this article, I argue that first language (L1), second language (L2) and third language (L3)
acquisition are fundamentally the same process, based on learning by parsing. Both child …

Editor's note: Today, more of the world's population is bilingual or multilingual than
monolingual. In addition to facilitating cross-cultural communication, this trend also positively …

The effects of bilingual education on reading and math achievement were examined by
comparing test scores across different elementary school programs. Results revealed that …

Accumulated recent research suggests that prior knowledge of multiple languages leads to
advantages in learning additional languages. In the current article, we review studies …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

A swee** account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common …

During speech comprehension, bilinguals co-activate both of their languages, resulting in
cross-linguistic interaction at various levels of processing. This interaction has important …

Numerous factors are thought to be advantageous for non-native language learning
although they are typically investigated in isolation, and the interaction between them is not …