Primability as a Predictor of L2 Alignment and Writing Performance: Evidence from a Comparative Continuation Task

Planning to perform: Association of pre-task strategies with linguistic complexity and cohesion in argumentative essays

While much research has examined the effects of pre-task planning on L2 writing performance, little attention has been paid to what writers actually do during planning and how their strategies relate to the linguistic features in their writing. To address these gaps, this study explores the relationship between pre-tas...

Limited L1 transfer and efficiency-driven strategies in L2 syntax–semantics processing: An ERP study

Cross-linguistic transfer accounts predict that second language (L2) learners benefit from structural overlap between their native language (L1) and L2, while the accessibility–complexity–efficiency model proposes that L2 learners rely on accessible cues to maintain efficiency when processing non-canonical structures w...

L1 proximity and syntactic complexity in L2 Italian acquisition

Studies on second language acquisition suggest that clitic pronouns are challenging syntactic elements for L2ers to acquire. This study examines the acquisition of Italian accusative clitics by Spanish and Swedish L2ers. Extending Romano’s (2020) research on Swedish speakers, it employs an oral structural primin...

First Language, Target Language and Learning Strategies in Learners’ Interlanguage: An Integrative Review

Interlanguage is the developing linguistic system that learners construct while moving between a first language and a target language. This integrative review examines how first-language influence, target-language development, and learning strategies jointly shape that system. Ten peer-reviewed studies published from 2...

Identifying hidden cognate effects in L2 lexical retrieval tasks: A tutorial for stimulus design

ARABIC L1 TRANSFER IN ENGLISH SYNTAX ACQUISITION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WITH PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

: For decades, the transfer of first language (L1) knowledge has been recognized as a significant factor shaping second language (L2) syntactic development, particularly when L1 and L2 differ typologically. This systematic review examines how Arabic L1 transfer affects English syntax acquisition among Arabic-speaking E...