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John I. Liontas – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Idiomatics--the scientific study of idiomatic language and figurative language--is a pervasive theme in global literature, yet its precise terminology often lacks clear definition. This article addresses this challenge directly by delving into the etymology, significance, and universality of idiomatics. It emphasizes the pivotal role of idiomatics…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Etymology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Researchers
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Babineau, Mireille; Havron, Naomi; Dautriche, Isabelle; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Young children can exploit the syntactic context of a novel word to narrow down its probable meaning. This is "syntactic bootstrapping." A learner that uses syntactic bootstrapping to foster lexical acquisition must first have identified the semantic information that a syntactic context provides. Based on the "semantic seed…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
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Flynn, Suzanne – Second Language Research, 2021
This provocative article raises many important issues that need to be addressed and in so doing will advance the fields of second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition in several important ways. Fundamental questions concerning multilingual development persist especially with respect to the role of Universal Grammar in this language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
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Adami, Elisabetta; Diamantopoulou, Sophia; Lim, Fei Victor – London Review of Education, 2022
Gunther Kress's multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm of linguistics, which originally framed his work, and has reached out to inform other fields, such as those of education, museum studies, as well as the humanities and social sciences more broadly. This article brings together our insights in relation…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Interpersonal Communication, Linguistic Theory, Design
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Benati, Alessandro – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
In this paper, the role and nature of language and language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and complex system. Input (ii) plays a key role in language development; despite the fact that some knowledge of language is innate (iii). Overall,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Input
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Rastelli, Stefano – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
The Discontinuity Model (DM) described in this article proposes that adults can learn part of L2 morphosyntax twice, in two different ways. The same item can be learned as the product of generation by a rule or as a modification of a template already stored in memory. These learning modalities, which are often seen as opposed in language theory,…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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Bao, Dat – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
This article argues that silence as a communication can be academically practised in the classroom as much as talk, simply because talk and silence are both essential components of everyday interaction (Nakane, 2012). These two constructs are interdependent in the sense that one would not exist without the other. Silence can be practised in two…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Bashir, Ibrahim; Yunus, Kamariah; Ibrahim, Bashir – Arab World English Journal, 2018
Corpus linguistics is a new branch of linguistics but its status is still debatable - either as a theory or a methodology. This article aims to give an overview of the different approaches and perspectives of corpus linguistics. The neo-Firthians contend that corpus linguistics is a method, while other prominent corpus linguists claim that it is a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Farid Ghaemi; Amir Nikmehr – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
Teacher reflection despite its conceptual and practical problems has been deemed crucial regarding teacher development. However, direct intervention in which instruction specifies what it is that learners will learn and when they will learn it, may lead to an artificial reflection in light of teaching failure. This artificiality seems reasonable…
Descriptors: Intervention, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bilokcuoglu, Hasan; Debreli, Emre – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
The role of the teacher's personality can be placed amongst many factors that play a role in learning English as a second/foreign language. A teacher with a humorous character inevitably aids in reducing any potential fear that may be experienced by students in relation to the learning of a second language in the classroom (Bell, 2009; Chee,…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Pienemann, Manfred – Language Learning, 2015
In this article I make the point that there has been a continuous focus on second language development in second language acquisition research for over 40 years and that there is clear empirical evidence for generalizable developmental patterns. I will both summarize some of the core assumptions of Processability Theory (PT) as an approach to…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes
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Barcroft, Joe – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2015
This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to "lexical input processing" (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other levels of input processing as well as…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Bley-Vroman, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
Foreign language learning contrasts with native language development in two key respects: It is unreliable and it is nonconvergent. At the same time, it is clear that foreign languages are languages. The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH) was introduced as a way to account for the general characteristics of foreign language learning. The FDH…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Anthony, Angela R. Beckman – Reading Teacher, 2008
Language production, or output, is not simply a product to demonstrate learning but part of the learning process. The output hypothesis, a theoretical model of second-language acquisition, proposes that second-language learners must produce the language they are learning in order to obtain a level of proficiency similar to that of native speakers.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literacy, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Freeman, Donald – Modern Language Journal, 2007
This article argues that Firth and Wagner's 1997 contribution gained influence in second/foreign language teaching partly owing to a loose group of conceptual and ideological preconditions that drew on classroom methodologies, debates over educating second language teachers, and new views of how teachers could document and analyze their own…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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