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Park, Jungeun; Rizzolo, Douglas – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
We consider how the existence of different signifiers for mathematical objects in different languages manifests in discourse about those objects. Based on the observation that there is a common signifier "derivative" in English used for both the derivative at a point and the derivative function and two phonetically and semantically…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Korean, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Natalie G. Koval – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Research utilizing morphological priming has found that L2 speakers show facilitation from derived L2 primes, which could suggest morphological processing during derived L2 word recognition. However, the process of L2 derived word recognition is still poorly understood, with some arguing that the observed priming effects may not be morphological…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Native Language
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Sögüt, Sibel; Keçik, Ilknur – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigates the use of high-frequency cognitive verbs - think and believe - in Turkish L2 learners' interlanguage, both in terms of their verb senses and complementation patterns. In line with this purpose, a Sentence Production Task consisting of context-independent items and a Sentence Completion Task consisting of context-dependent…
Descriptors: Verbs, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yushkova, L. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
The article provides a comparative analysis of the linguistic and cultural picture of the world of contemporary Russian university students on the basis of surveys of their perceptions of America and the Americans as well as Russia and the Russians. The data that were collected from a free association experiment that was conducted by S.G.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Surveys
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David, Aika Carla M. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
The present study investigated the dominant verb-phrase structure and the semantic functions of the modal "must" in research papers. It also determined whether the modal "must" conforms to or deviates from the standard modal usage in American English. A total of 122 graduate research papers were analyzed. The findings revealed…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics
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Saleh Majed Al Abwaini – Journal of English as an International Language, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the problems that translators faced when subtitling cultural expressions from English into Arabic. To achieve this goal, the researchers selected a convenient sample comprising 40 graduate and 40 undergraduate students who were enrolled in the English language programs during the academic year 2012/2013 in…
Descriptors: Captions, Arabic, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Corrigan, Roberta – Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper examines an under-studied component of deep vocabulary knowledge, affective meaning, which is used to convey attitudes. Two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency, are examined to determine whether they influence the vocabulary choices of native speakers of American-English in describing interpersonal interactions. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Sentences, Nouns