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Direct linkBylund, Emanuel; Athanasopoulos, Panos – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
The present study seeks to expand the current focus on acquisition situations in linguistic relativity research by exploring the effects of nativisation (the process by which a L2 is acquired as a L1) on language-specific cognitive behaviour. Categorisation preferences of goal-oriented motion events were investigated in South African speakers who…
Descriptors: Motion, Classification, Native Language, English
Towards a Reconceptualisation of "Word" for High Frequency Word Generation in Word Knowledge Studies
Sibanda, Jabulani; Baxen, Jean – Perspectives in Education, 2014
The present paper derives from a PhD study investigating the nexus between Grade 4 textbook vocabulary demands and Grade 3 isiXhosa-speaking learners' knowledge of that vocabulary to enable them to read to learn in Grade 4. The paper challenges the efficacy of the four current definitions of "word" for generating high frequency words…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary, Grade 4, Grade 3
Download full textBouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits
de Kadt, Elizabeth – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study investigated requests as speech acts in "Zulu English," the English of Zulu first-language speakers, seeking to explain miscommunication in interactions between Zulu- and English-speakers by pointing to pragmatic transfer as one possible cause. Data were collected by means of a series of discourse completion tests in Zulu, Zulu…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Moisset, Christine, Ed.; Lipson, Mimi, Ed. – 1999
This issue includes the following articles: "Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation" (Julie Auger, Jeffrey Steele); "Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation" (Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet); "Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedBax, Stephen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1994
This article examines, in particular, how South African teachers, working in situations where English is a second language, approach the teaching of a content lesson in geography. (23 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Geography
Peer reviewedAngelil-Carter, Shelley – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Argues that acquisition of English-as-a-Second-Language research must take into account social context and power relations in order to explain language learning processes. Uses interview data and writing samples to demonstrate how a student in South Africa is influenced in his written discourse in English by his power relations and experience as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Context Effect, Data Analysis
