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Bilas, Andriy – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the problems of colloquial interrogative sentences having the function features in the source and target fiction texts. The importance of the research of interrogative sentences is defined by frequent use of questioning in the process of communication and a close connection of the problem of questioning with other…
Descriptors: French, Ukrainian, Translation, Figurative Language
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Becker, Lidia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The paper provides an example of how immigration is constructed by receiving societies as a comprehension or language problem that requires special solutions. It focuses on the application of Easy-to-Read, a simplified register currently in expansion which addresses different groups of people with intellectual disabilities, to immigrants in Spain.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Intellectual Disability, Semantics
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Kohn, Kurt – TESL-EJ, 2022
In pedagogical debates about Global Englishes (GE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF), there is widespread agreement concerning an urgent need for liberating teachers and students from the normative constraints of ELT's orientation towards standard English by raising their awareness of the characteristics and complexities of GE/ELF…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
This article proposes a model for integrating text-to-speech software (TTS) in students' interpreting training and practice. It shows the aims of the model, the definition of TTS, the advantages of using TTS, how to search for TTS, instructional stages with TTS, and the interpreting instructor's role. The students can use TTS software online;…
Descriptors: Translation, Speech Communication, Audio Equipment, North American English
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López-Garcia, Verònica; Rodríguez-Inés, Patricia – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
Recurring expressions and idiolectal speech patterns are often used by the scriptwriters of sitcoms to portray the personality of some of the characters. These expressions, which in many cases end up becoming popular, are so significant that they need be kept in the translated versions of these series. A corpus-based script analysis method that…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Translation, Units of Study, Teaching Methods
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Jensen, Bryant; Valdés, Guadalupe; Gallimore, Ronald – Educational Researcher, 2021
Language in education for children and youth from low-income communities of color, including those learning English as an additional language, has been fraught for decades with ideological entanglements, conceptual ambiguities, and empirical limitations. Meanwhile, the teacher learning challenge to implement equitable teaching practices remains…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Classroom Communication, Lesson Plans, Video Technology
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Levin, Iris; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Hende, Nareman; Ziv, Margalit – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Arabic Literacy acquisition was studied among Israeli Palestinian low socioeconomic status kindergartners within the framework of an intervention study, implemented by teachers. On pretest, letter naming, alphabetic awareness, and phonological awareness were very low. Whereas the comparison group hardly progressed throughout the year, the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Intervention, Alphabets, Phonological Awareness
Jackendoff, Ray; Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, how computers process language and why they may have difficulty in processing English. The brochure points out that English is a more difficult language to process than most people think, and that the brain is far more complex than the computer in its ability to decipher meaning. The examples of the word…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Role
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Truscott, John; Smith, Mike Sharwood – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
The paper offers a model of language development, first and second, within a processing perspective. We first sketch a modular view of language, in which competence is embodied in the processing mechanisms. We then propose a novel approach to language acquisition (Acquisition by Processing Theory, or APT), in which development of the module occurs…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning
Farahzad, Farzaneh – 1999
This paper discusses factors contributing to differing translations of the same source text, arguing that translation occurs on a continuum rather than having absolute criteria and procedures. Issues examined include the formal properties of the text, the text's "invariant core of meaning," stability in the semantic elements of the text, the text…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpretive Skills, Language Patterns, Language Processing
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Bierwisch, Manfred – Second Language Research, 1997
Discusses the feasibility of Basic Variety (BV) principles proposed by Klein and Perdue, arguing that some of them need clarification with learner varieties and that they are not part of Universal Grammar (UG) as they exclude phenomena (e.g., psych verbs) that cannot be excluded from the core of natural language. (15 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Vocabulary, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
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Rickford, John R. – Language in Society, 1987
Supports a greater use of repeated recordings and elicited intuitions by sociolinguists in assessing the linguistic competence of individuals or groups. A replication of an earlier implicational analysis of pronominal variation in the Guyanese creole continuum shows that, with repeated sampling and the inclusion of elicited intuitions, the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Creoles, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis
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Klein, Wolfgang; Perdue, Clive – Second Language Research, 1997
Discusses the implications of the tendency of adult second-language learners to develop a well-structured, simple form of language outside the classroom, i.e. the Basic Variety (BV). Focuses on the structural properties of the BV, the status of these properties and the reasons why some structural properties of "fully fledged" languages are more…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Vocabulary, Grammar, Language Processing
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Chisanga, T.; Kamwangamalu, N. M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses the issue of who owns English from the perspective of non-native Englishes in Southern Africa, with a focus on the linguistic processes underpinning the owning of English there. Suggests that claiming ownership of English in the African context means to make English carry the weight of one's African experience and to alter it to suit its…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Context Effect, Cultural Context, English (Second Language)