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Nassif, Lama; Al Masaeed, Khaled – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study examines the multidialectal (i.e. diglossic) practices in the sociolinguistic repertoire of speech productions of 28 L2 Arabic learners who went through training using the integrated approach to learn two varieties of Arabic at the same time: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine Arabic. Specifically, the study investigated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Standard Spoken Usage
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Aribas, Derya Sekerci; Cele, Filiz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper compares the initial state of second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition for English articles to examine the influence of L2 proficiency on positive transfer from L2 to L3. We tested 36 L1 Turkish/L2 German adolescent learners of L3 English (L3 group), 41 L1 Turkish adolescent learners of L2 English (L2 group), and 10…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Weiner (1988. "On Editing a Usage Guide." In "Words for Robert Burchfield's Sixty-Fifth Birthday," edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171-183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being 'as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Guides, Real Estate
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Costa Carreras, Joan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
In this paper, we analyse the relationship between use and perception of five Catalan variants of the variable "subject coreferential with an antecedent." This will be done by examining the results of a cloze test and three perception surveys answered in 1997 by 26 respondents. Two different correct constructions were then presented as…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Romance Languages, Language Variation, Surveys
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Deffa, Oromiya-Jalata – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Contrary to earlier studies dealing with the cultural identity development of diasporic minorities, this paper assesses the impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion and ethnic orientation. To this end, Oromo-Americans, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia, will be compared to Armenian-Americans,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Self Concept, Minority Groups, Correlation
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Saric, Ljiljana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper provides an analysis of texts containing the noun "the Balkans" and the adjective "Balkan" in a small corpus of approximately 80 journalistic texts from different south Slavic regions currently available online. The texts were published over the last 10 years. The term "the Balkans" and its derivations…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Foreign Countries, Nouns, Discourse Analysis
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Hudabiunigg, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper analyses an extensive corpus of texts from the German media and existing studies of German perspectives on Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in order to demonstrate that there are two idealised culture cognitive models (ICCMs) that function as overarching categories for Europe: the ICCM west (the members of the European…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, German, Schemata (Cognition)