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Marshall, Steve; Moore, Danièle – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
Today, scholars and students face an array of lingualisms: bilingualism, multilingualism, polylingualism, metrolingualism plurilingualism, codeswitching, codemeshing, and translanguaging, among others. Plurilingualism can be understood as the study of individuals' repertoires and agency in several languages, in different contexts, in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Misconceptions, Criticism
Mathew, Bincy; Raja, B. William Dharma – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
Language is of vital importance to human beings. It is a means of communication and it has specific cognitive links. Advanced social cognition is necessary for children to acquire language, and sophisticated mind-reading abilities to assume word meanings and communicate pragmatically. Language can be defined as a bi-directional system that permits…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Social Cognition, Linguistic Competence, Comparative Analysis
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Language is seen as a system for communicative purposes and as such it involves more than just a structural organization. Indeed this view of language considers different kinds of competence which make communication really meaningful: linguistic, sociolinguistic discourse, and strategic. Linguistic competence is what we usually regard as the basis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, Social Environment
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Abraham, Roberta G. – TESOL Quarterly, 1984
Analysis of two studies (interpreted in terms of the distinction between language acquisition and language learning) showed that subjects tended to cluster the -s's on a few verbs rather than randomly, suggesting that the morpheme may be acquired not in isolation but attached to particular verbs. (SL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Competence
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Sanchez, Liliana – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This article discusses some of the challenges that researchers working in the fields of bilingualism and second-language acquisition (SLA) and in the field of language testing face in developing comparable and culturally and cognitively appropriate data collection and language assessment tools for bilingual children from rural minority-language…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Oral Language, Bilingual Students, Language Research