Student teachers of malay language as a first language: do they have the confident? by Jamian, Abdul Rasid, Konting, Mohd Majid, Bakar, Ab. Rahim

“…The objective of the study was to assess the teaching confidence of student teacher who’s specialization is Teaching of Malay as a First Language. The specific objectives were to determine the teaching confidence in terms of student engagement; instructional strategies; classroom management and teaching with computers in classroom. …”
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The influence of first language reading strategies on second language reading of academic texts by Yuan, Xin

“…A review of literature indicates that an improved understanding on the use of first language (L1) reading strategies in second language (L2) reading contributes to the general understanding of reading process. …”
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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ISSUES IN FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: NINE MAJOR ISSUES REVISITED by Lotfollah Karimi, Nematullah Shomoossi, Ahmad Shomoossi

“…Concerning issues in first language acquisition, the present paper explores positions in theory- making, asyntacticity of early child language, Piaget's idea about children's logical thinking, Vygotsky's and Chomsky's controversy over the origins of language, the relationship between communicative competence and other abilities, the stage where child's utterance is counted to be communicative, reflecting on the relationship between language and thought, the idea of modularity, the role of emergentism in language acquisition, and the authors’ perspectives about different explanations on language acquisition in general.…”
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Influence of first language on English word stress assignment by bahdini Kurdish learners of English by Mazheen Mohammad, Aveen Hasan

“… Studies on learning second language (L2) phonology agree that first language (L1) has a key role in the production of learners L2. …”
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Does attitude importance moderate the effects of person-first language? A registered report. by Sandy Schumann, Hazem Zohny

“…However, those benefits of person-first language may not apply to all social groups equally. …”
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Comparative analysis of the approach to first language oracy of Polish and Portuguese early education teachers by Marta Łockiewicz, Otília Sousa, Marina Fuertes, Martyna Piechowska, Teresa Costa-Pereira

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Pedagogical Practices in Teaching SiSwati as a First Language in Diverse Linguistic Settings by Tholakele Constance Mngometulu, Connie Makgabo

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Comprehensible Output: A Lesson From a Child Acquiring a First Language by Patuan Raja

“… The present article is intended to examine what a child acquiring a first language did when he encountered a communication block in his interaction with others. …”
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The first language acquisition of scalar inferences from -Cocha 'Even' by Korean-speaking children by Kang, Soyeon,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Does attitude importance moderate the effects of person-first language? A registered report by Schumann, S, Zohny, H

“…However, those benefits of person-first language may not apply to all social groups equally. …”

Student Teacher of Malay Language as a First Language: Do They Have the Confidence to Teach by Jamian, Abdul Rasid, Konting, Mohd Majid, Bakar, Ab. Rahim

“…The objective of the study was to assess the teaching confidence of student teacher who’s specialization is Teaching of Malay as a First Language. The specific objectives were to determine the teaching confidence in terms of student engagement; instructional strategies; classroom management and teaching with computers in classroom. …”
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STAGES, COMPARISONS AND FACTORS OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF TWO-YEARS-OLD MALE AND FEMALE CHILD by Julisah Izar, Muhammad Muslim Nasution, Putri Wahyu Ilahi

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Lexical and morphological development: A case study of Malay English bilingual first language acquisition by Salleh Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed, Di Biase Bruno, Kawaguchi Satomi

“…Many first language acquisition (FLA) studies have found a strong correlation between lexical and grammatical development in early language acquisition. …”
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USES OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE IN THE ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN/SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: TEACHERS’ VIEWS AND ARGUMENTS by Binod Luitel, Kamal Kumar Poudel, Uma Nath Sharma, Tek Mani Karki

“…Drawing on the lived experiences of three community school English teachers in Nepal, this article explores the uses of the learners’ first language (L1) in English as a foreign/second language (ESL) classes. …”
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“The First Language in My Head”: Student Attitudes to L2 English and L1 Slovene by Monika Kavalir, Ina Poteko

“…In addition, many respondents already feel it to be an additional first language, with a sizable group reporting a preference for English as their intimate language. …”
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USES OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE IN THE ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN/SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: TEACHERS’ VIEWS AND ARGUMENTS by Binod Luitel, Kamal Kumar Poudel, Uma Nath Sharma, Tek Mani Karki

“…Drawing on the lived experiences of three community school English teachers in Nepal, this article explores the uses of the learners’ first language (L1) in English as a foreign/second language (ESL) classes. …”
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The influence of learning a second language in primary school on developing first language literacy skills by Murphy, V, Macaro, E, Alba, S, Cipolla, C

“…This study investigated whether learning a second language (L2) has a facilitative effect on first language (L1) literacy and whether there is an advantage to learning an L2 with transparent grapheme-phoneme correspondences. …”

What does research tell us about using the first language as a pedagogical tool? by Chalmers, H

First language and proficiency level effects on English vowel perception by Iraqi learners of English in Malaysia by Al Abdely, Ammar Abdul-Wahab, Ilyana Jalaluddin, Che An Abdul Ghani, Yap, Ngee Thai

“…Motivated by the assumptions that first language (L1) influence was found to be a very strong predictor of foreign accent degree in the pronunciation of second language learners and that increased experience in the second language (L2) may nurture improved recognition of the differences between the L1 and L2 segments, this study examines the effect of L1 and proficiency level on the perception of English monophthongs by Iraqi EFL learners. …”
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La reformulation : de la construction du sens à la construction des apprentissages en langue et sur la langue by Claire Martinot

Subjects: “…acquisition of the first language…”
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