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Kheirkhah, Mina; Cekaite, Asta – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
The present study examines the siblings' contribution to shaping the language practices and language environment of immigrant families. The data consist of interviews, observations, and video recordings of everyday family interactions and sibling play in five Iranian families residing in Sweden. Detailed interaction analyses show that siblings…
Descriptors: Siblings, Language Usage, Immigrants, Family Environment
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Maghsoudi, Mojtaba; Mirzaeian, Vahid – JALT CALL Journal, 2020
EFL university students in general and Iranian EFL university learners in particular, specifically in the commencement of their study at bachelor degree prefer to have their assigned English texts translated into mother tongue since they do not have a good command of the language. Machine translation (MT) has recently turned into a favorite tool…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
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Hosseinpur, Rasoul Mohammad; Pour, Hossein Hosseini – TESL-EJ, 2022
A compelling body of evidence suggests that EFL students have problem with logical connectors' appropriate use in writing. This study explored Iranian EFL students' adversative connectors use in their essay writing course. To this end, a Learner Corpus of 60393 words consisting of 156 essays was compiled. LOCNESS was chosen as the criterion…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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MacIntyre, Peter D.; Wang, Lanxi; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
How does a person decide whether she or he is willing to communicate? Dual-process theories have been influential in the literature on the psychology of making judgments and decisions. Dual-process theories make a distinction between cognitive processes that are fast, automatic, and unconscious (also called 'experiential' thinking) and those that…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jabbari, Ali Akbar; Achard-Bayle, Guy; Ablali, Driss – Cogent Education, 2018
This study attempts to tease apart the effect of dominant languages of communication on the acquisition of syntactic properties of L3 French in order to test the current L3 generative theories. Three groups of bilinguals took part in this study: L1 Persian/L2 English, with French as the dominant language of communication, L1 Persian/L2 English,…
Descriptors: French, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Native Language