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Xueyan Hu; Li-Jen Kuo; L. Quentin Dixon – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The current trend of speakers of English as a second or an additional language (English language learners) outnumbering speakers of English as a first language (native English speakers) has shifted the focus of English language teaching from the nativeness principle to the intelligibility principle. Following the intelligibility principle, this…
Descriptors: English Learners, Intervention, Intelligibility, Comprehension
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Sara Mazzini; Noor Seijdel; Linda Drijvers – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Meaningful gestures enhance degraded speech comprehension in neurotypical adults, but it is unknown whether this is the case for neurodivergent populations, such as autistic individuals. Previous research demonstrated atypical multisensory and speech-gesture integration in autistic individuals, suggesting that integrating speech and gestures may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Nonverbal Communication
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Francisca Beroíza-Valenzuela; Natalia Salas-Guzmán – European Journal of Education, 2025
This systematic review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA (2020) guidelines, analysed the consequences of gender stereotypes on language processing from 2012 to 2023. This review investigates the impact of stereotypical beliefs on the interpretation and understanding of language, including words, phrases, discourse, perceptions of professional…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Language Processing, Educational Research, Language Attitudes
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Andrey Vyshedskiy; Rohan Venkatesh; Edward Khokhlovich; Deniz Satik – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Analysis of linguistic abilities that are concurrently impaired in individuals with language deficits allows identification of a shared underlying mechanism. If any two linguistic abilities are mediated by the same underlying mechanism, then both abilities will be absent if this mechanism is broken. Clustering techniques automatically arrange…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Comprehension, Intelligibility, Language Impairments
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Shuyuan Liu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study reports bilingual international students' communicative strategies to preempt and resolve English as a lingua franca (ELF) miscommunication in an English-medium virtual learning program offered by an international university in times of the global pandemic. Drawing upon 18 hours of Zoom recordings and supplementary ethnographic data,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Official Languages
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Michael D. Carey; Stefan Szocs – Language Testing, 2024
This controlled experimental study investigated the interaction of variables associated with rating the pronunciation component of high-stakes English-language-speaking tests such as IELTS and TOEFL iBT. One hundred experienced raters who were all either familiar or unfamiliar with Brazilian-accented English or Papua New Guinean Tok Pisin-accented…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Suprasegmentals, Familiarity