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Direct linkStocker, Joana; Abu-Hilal, Maher; Hermena, Ehab; AlJassmi, Maryam; Barbato, Mariapaola – Educational Psychology, 2021
This study aims at testing the generalisability of Marsh's Internal/External (I/E) frame of reference model as well as its Dimensional Comparison Theory (DCT) extension in a sample of United Arab Emirates (UAE) high school students. Relationship between self-concept and achievement in Arabic, English and mathematics were explored. A sample of 990…
Descriptors: Arabs, High School Students, Self Concept, Academic Achievement
Ross, Steven J.; Mackey, Beth – Language Learning, 2015
This chapter introduces three applications of Bayesian inference to common and novel issues in second language research. After a review of the critiques of conventional hypothesis testing, our focus centers on ways Bayesian inference can be used for dealing with missing data, for testing theory-driven substantive hypotheses without a default null…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Hypothesis Testing, Meta Analysis, Inferences
Goldberg, Adele E. – Cognition, 2013
Typologists have long observed that there are certain distributional patterns that are not evenly distributed among the world's languages. This discussion note revisits a recent experimental investigation of one such intriguing case, so-called "universal 18", by Culbertson, Smolensky, and Legendre (2012). The authors find that adult learners are…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Adult Students, Grammar, Artificial Languages
Download full textAL-Malki, Eidhah Abdullah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Omar, Noor Abidah Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1999 by Biber et al. (p. 266) generic article uses are more than twice as common in academic English than in conversation or fiction. This is an area that English for Academic Purpose (EPA) textbooks and teachers would need to target more than general English teaching. This paper is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Indonesian Languages, Grammar, English (Second Language)
Levinson, Stephen C.; Burenhult, Niclas – Language, 2009
This short report draws attention to an interesting kind of configuration in the lexicon that seems to have escaped theoretical or systematic descriptive attention. These configurations, which we dub SEMPLATES, consist of an abstract structure or template, which is recurrently instantiated in a number of lexical sets, typically of different form…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Vocabulary Development
Clopper, Cynthia G.; Pisoni, David B. – Language and Speech, 2004
Two groups of listeners learned to categorize a set of unfamiliar talkers by dialect region using sentences selected from the TIMIT speech corpus. One group learned to categorize a single talker from each of six American English dialect regions. A second group learned to categorize three talkers from each dialect region. Following training, both…
Descriptors: Sentences, Dialects, North American English, Perception
