Influence of translanguaging in writing across languages: A case of multilingual primary students in Sri Lanka by Mohmed Cassim Badurusaman Nihmathulla

“…This study considers essays written by three students at the primary level of education in Sri Lanka in their first language (L1/Tamil), second language (L2/English) and third language (L3/Sinhala). …”
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Animals, Mimesis, and the Origin of Language by Kári Driscoll

“…Both Rousseau and Herder allude to the popular idea that the first language was metaphorical, and for both the origin of language is the result of a mimetic encounter with an animal. …”
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COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS IN SECOND LANGUAGE AQUISITION by E. G. Beliaevskaya

“…Such conceptual structures (the conceptual inner form) shaping the peculiarities of the mode of expression characteristic of the given language community determine the choice of words in the process of communication and word combinability; if applied in second language teaching and learning they help avoid subconscious translation from the learner’s first language into a second/third, thus bringing down the interfering effects.…”
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Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback and Accent Modification: Effects on Consonant and Vowel Accuracy for Mandarin English Language Learners by Courtney Beth ARMSTRONG, Heather Leavy RUSIEWICZ, Katie MICCO, Yang CHEN

“…A single-subject ABAB withdrawal design was employed with two adults who spoke Mandarin as their first language. Ultrasound visual biofeedback, verbal cues, and perceptual training were implemented to improve production of/r/, /I/, and/ɛ/in words.Results:Perceptual ratings by naive listeners indicated that phoneme production improved as a function of ultrasound visual biofeedback training. …”
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“Haciendo un freestyle con los qompas”: juegos verbales y recontextualización de géneros discursivos en el rap qom by Victoria Beiras del Carril, Paola Cúneo

“…In a context of striking language shift, it shows how this musical genre condenses the indigenous language repertoire of this generation whose first language is Spanish. Attention is paid to the specific resources of the bilingual verbal play, such as mixing or code switching, that play a leading role in the performance of rap. …”
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Historiciser les langues en classe de français langue étrangère à travers des démarches de croisement de récits by Hara Papasαϊκα

“…On the one hand, they aim to highlight that comprehension, especially in one’s first language, emerges from perceptions steeped in history, either in the narrower sense of disciplinary knowledge or in the broader sense of collective and memorial experience. …”
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Revealing the rhetorical moves and linguistic patterns in discipline-related undergraduate thesis by Risa Rumentha Simanjuntak

“…The study concluded that socio-cultural factors, such as institutional guidelines for thesis writing and students’ first language, may contribute to the genre's variations.…”
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Writing Errors: The Case of English Learners of Arabic by Asmaa Shehata, Amaya Martin

“…It examined the types of errors that learners of Arabic who were first language (L1) English speakers made in writing and investigated the influence of language proficiency on learners’ writing errors. …”
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MATCHING TEACHING STYLES WITH STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLES (A SURVEY OF INDONESIAN STUDENTS’ HABITS OF LEARNING) by Saifuddin Ahmad Husin

“…In this study, there are also some cases happened when teaching and learning process occurred in the classroom, for example first language interference, lack of cognates, culturally inappropriate materials, different learning expectations, no response, and students reluctant to speak and there are of course some ways to help students to relax and overcome those problems. …”
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LINGUISTIC STUDY OF SELECT TURKISH PLACE NAMES THROUGH THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF GREEK VOCABULARY by Sankar Bıswas

“…The study underscores the fact that it is a naturally acceptable phenomenon that one language will influence the other through mutual vocabulary acclimatization due to geographical proximity and vice versa To do justice and to lend weight to the very defense of the influence on the first language of the second mostly in the domain of placenames, the study resorts to the broaching of a curated list of Turkish words vis-à-vis their Greek counterparts through the usage of search engines namely lexilogos.com and etymononline.com . …”
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The Analysis and Critique of the French Phonetics by Mohamad-Hossein Otroshi

“…The results showed that the book’s educational approach is a combination of articulatory and descriptive phonetics which only focuses on phonetic foreign language teaching (Parisian French pronunciation), regardless of the diversity of Iranian students’ first language. Considering the scientific developments in the field of foreign language teaching, linguistics, and in particular phonetics (such as verbo-tonal method and acoustic phonetics based on the use of technology), this textbook, even in the eighth edition, has failed to keep pace with the current trends in the field and could not fulfill the needs of French language teaching and learning in the context of Iran.…”
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APPLICABILITÀ DEL METODO ANALOGICO ALL’INSEGNAMENTO DELL’ITALIANO L2 A BAMBINI: UNO STUDIO DI CASO by Sofia Massironi

“…Applicability of the analogical method to the teaching of Italian as a second language to children: a case study The Analogical Method is a well-established teaching methodology that is applied daily in Italian primary schools, including for the teaching of Italian as a first language (L1). The aim of this article is to explore the possibilities and challenges in applying this methodology to the teaching of reading and writing in Italian as a second language (L2). …”
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CHILDREN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESS by Loli Safitri

“…This research discusses a case study of children in acquiring their first language at age 18 months old in Bukittinggi. The process deals with some stages namely cooing, babbling, holophrastic, the two-word stage, telegraphic stage, and multiword stage. …”
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Effect of Age, Education, and Bilingualism on Confrontation Naming in Older Illiterate and Low-Educated Populations by Sameer Ashaie, Loraine Obler

“…This suggests that L2 speaking proficiency contributed more to first language (L1) naming with advancing age.…”
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Principles and Standards for Compiling Arabic Language Textbooks for Non-Arabic Speakers in Series of «Alkitab in Learning Arabic» as a Model by soheyla mohseny nejad

“…On the other hand, most organizations and institutes demand the necessity of compiling a good Arabic textbook due to the lack of appropriate textbook in teaching Arabic language in academic levels for non-Arabic speakers and a significant difference between composing textbooks in (Arabic) as a first language and as a language for non- Arabic speakers. …”
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"PUBLISH OR PERISH": JAVANESE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE ON JAVANESE-ENGLISH CODE-SWITCHING SONG by Amalina Maharani, Emy Sudarwati

“…The continuous use of the local language as a language maintenance effort will avoid losing the community's first language …”
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Identification des raisons de non-fréquentation des centres d’aide en français du postsecondaire au Québec by Isabelle Cabot, Stéphanie Facchin

“…enMastering French (as the first language) for post-secondary students is a major challenge. …”
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L’expression du déplacement en italien et français L2 : influence translinguistique vs tendances communes by Simona Anastasio, Sandra Benazzo

“…This paper presents a cross-sectional study of the expression of motion events in oral narrative discourse produced by second language (L2) learners of Italian and French, whose first language (L1) is either typologically close (Italian or French) or distant (English) from the target language. …”
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The importance of formative assessment based on students’ perception by Arinaa Sabilah Ghozali, Peptia Asrining Tyas

“…EFL (English for Foreign Language) refers to the teaching and learning of English in educational settings where the society does not use English as their first language. Most EFL teachers in Indonesian formal schools developed their formative assessment according to their own perception, whereas several studies had proven that formative assessment should be designed based on students’ perception. …”
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The role of text in teaching foreign languages by T. A. Baranovskaya

“…The contents of a person's language consciousness can be described through its thesaurus and presented as a filter that sifts through incoming meaningful information expressed in the sign form. The process of first language acquisition by a child is closely related to the apprearance of the correlation between dynamic and static systems of sound production (syllable production and articulation). …”
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