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Gavin Bui; Weiran Zhang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This mixed-methods study investigated the impact of musical lyrics and working memory capacities on second language (L2) English reading comprehension among adult Chinese native speakers. Participants were 57 adult ESL learners with advanced L2 proficiency, divided into high and low working memory capacity groups based on a pre-test. They…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Xin; Hale, Sandra – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Courtroom interpreting requires a high level of accuracy due to the strategic use of language in such an institutional setting. It is generally agreed among interpreting scholars that quality interpreting in court should accurately relay both propositional content and illocutionary force of the original utterances. This high standard of accuracy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Court Litigation, Translation, Accuracy