A Pop Song Register: The Motherese of Adolescents as Affective Foreigner Talk

Abstract

feasible for research on second/foreign language learning by students with the same native language (e.g., the learning of a foreign language by native speakers of American English or the learning of English as a second language by speakers of the same native language) than for research on ESL reading comprehension of students from a variety of language backgrounds.Clearly, however, studies using target language recalls may elicit artificially low performance as a result of subjects' limited production abilities.