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Lee, Albert; Li, Xiaolin; Mok, Peggy – Second Language Research, 2023
This article revisits Lee and Mok (2018) and examines how the Cantonese learners in the study produced second language (L2) Japanese short vs. long consonants which are absent in their first language (L1). Specifically, our goal is to find out whether these learners were substituting real geminates (i.e. long consonants) with the improvised…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Japanese, Speech Communication, Phrase Structure
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Gan, Zhengdong – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2012
This study, which is part of a large-scale study of using objective measures to validate assessment rating scales and assessment tasks in a high-profile school-based assessment initiative in Hong Kong, examined how grammatical complexity measures relate to task type and analytic evaluations of students' speaking proficiency in a classroom-based…
Descriptors: Validity, Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning