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Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna; Molek-Winiarska, Dorota – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
This study draws from personality psychology and linguistics of written communication to explore the characteristics of self-selected well-written email communications (N=273) solicited from Polish managers who organized and supervised the (remote) work of their units during the COVID-19 period. The focus is on the writing of managers with…
Descriptors: Administrators, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis
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Robin E. Harvey; Patricia J. Brooks – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Children learning Chinese must cope with an opaque orthography lacking transparent relations between oral pronunciations and written characters: a challenge heightened for L2 learners. Use of digital Pinyin input may facilitate connections between oral and written language by allowing learners to access vocabulary they cannot yet write. We…
Descriptors: Written Language, Chinese, Language Arts, Grade 4
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Issa, Iyad – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Spelling poses a challenge to Arabic-speaking learners due to the complexity of the morphological and orthographic systems in Arabic. Arabic morphology has been argued to play a critical role in spelling since its morphological operations are built on a system consisting of a root that is interlocking into different patterns of vowels to form…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spelling, Arabic, Written Language
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Özbay, Ali Sükrü – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2020
English contains a considerable number of lexical combinations with various forms and labels, making it an interesting field of inquiry for researchers. The significance and popularity of support verb constructions (SVC) is that they are used largely by native speakers and include some of the most common words in English but seem to be problematic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Native Speakers, English
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Immonen, Katja; Peltola, Kimmo U.; Tamminen, Henna; Alku, Paavo; Peltola, Maija S. – Second Language Research, 2023
Children are known to be fast learners due to their neural plasticity. Learning a non-native language (L2) requires the mastering of new production patterns. In classroom settings, learners are not only exposed to the acoustic input, but also to the unfamiliar grapheme-phoneme correspondences of the L2 orthography. We tested how 9-10-year-old…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Linguistic Input
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Sutrisno, Adi – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2019
The patterns of paragraph writing as commonly used in the international journal are deemed necessary to be studied by scholars of non-English background wishing to write an article for publication in the international journals. Scholars of non-English speaking background, according to a number of research reports on rhetoric contrastive, have a…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics
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Benmamoun, Elabbas; Albirini, Abdulkafi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This study examines heritage speakers' knowledge of Standard Arabic (SA) and compares their patterns of SA acquisition to those of learners of SA as second/foreign language (L2). In addition, the study examines the influence of previously acquired language varieties, including Colloquial Arabic (QA), on SA acquisition. To this end, the study…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Asadi, Ibrahim A.; Ibrahim, Raphiq – Journal of Education and Learning, 2014
The present study examined the impact of "diglossia", a characteristic of the Arabic language, on the development of phonological abilities in the spoken and the literary language forms. Participants were 571 children from 10 grade levels (1-7, 9, 11 and 12), which were recruited from 10 schools by taking into account two important…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Dialects, Phonological Awareness
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Snow, Don – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This paper examines the history of four Chinese vernaculars which have developed written forms, and argues that five of the patterns Hanan identifies in the early development of Bai Hua can also be found in the early development of written Wu, Cantonese, and Minnan. In each of the cases studied, there is a clear pattern of early use of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Social Status, Self Concept
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Saeeaw, Supachai; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – English Language Teaching, 2014
Abstract is of a pivotal genre in scientific communication, assisting not only highly selective readers with judgment of the pertinent articles but also researchers in disseminating new knowledge and intellectual discoveries. Difficult yet challenging, however, is the task of writing effective abstracts particularly among non-English speaking…
Descriptors: Documentation, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Liu, Dilin – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Using the academic writing sub-corpora of the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus as data and building on previous research, this study strives to identify the most frequently-used multi-word constructions (MWCs) of various types (e.g., idioms, lexical bundles, and phrasal/prepositional verbs) in general…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, North American English, Computational Linguistics
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Soler-Monreal, Carmen; Carbonell-Olivares, Maria; Gil-Salom, Luz – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same scientific-technological area but by authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, employed the same rhetorical strategies…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students, Contrastive Linguistics
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Warchal, Krystyna – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
This paper focuses on the interpersonal potential of the conditional clause as a rhetorical device for establishing a dialogue between the author and the reader of an academic text in search for shared understanding and consensus. It presents a corpus-based analysis of functions conditional clauses play in linguistics research articles in an…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship, Rhetoric
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Ivy, Lennette J.; Masterson, Julie J. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to compare the rates of using African American English (AAE) grammatical features in spoken and written language at different points in literacy development. Based on Kroll's model (1981), a high degree of similarity in use between the modalities was expected at Grade 3, and lower similarity was…
Descriptors: African American Students, Writing (Composition), Black Dialects, Grammar
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Pu, Ming-Ming – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
The particular forms of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese lead to particular cognitive, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse constraints on speakers and writers. In this study, analyses of oral and written Mandarin Chinese narratives demonstrate that SS structures (subject head noun phrase [NP] modified by a subject RC) are produced more…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese
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