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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
A process of abstraction initiates the development of a theory of applied linguistics, beginning with the distinction between technical norm and technical fact. Each applied linguistic intervention has a normative dimension and a factual interface with its users. The second step is to abstract the qualifying technical modality of these artefacts,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Applied Linguistics, Intervention, Language Research
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
The initial high expectations of applied linguistic work did not endure. Applied linguistics is divided between adopting either a modernist or a postmodernist approach. Despite their relevant critique of modernism, the relativism promoted by postmodernist perspectives is an inadequate response to the challenges of the field. A non-reductionist…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Postmodernism
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
Analogies of the biotic modality within the technical sphere center on notions of vitality, differentiation of function, organization, adaptation and development. On the norm side, these organic analogies allow us to envision technical norms for the development of applied linguistic artefacts, which underlie the coming to fruition and maturation…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Curriculum Design
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White, Lydia – Language Teaching, 2022
Research on second language (L2) acquisition in the generative tradition (GenSLA) addresses the nature of interlanguage competence, examining the roles of Universal Grammar, the mother tongue and the input in shaping the acquisition, representation and use of second languages. This field is sometimes dismissed by applied linguists as irrelevant…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
Though our technical imagination is not restricted to the aesthetic, analogies of the latter in the former do give pause to consider anew the role of creativity and invention in language intervention design. On the norm side, aesthetic anticipations in the technical sphere appeal to the designers of language interventions to bring their solutions…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Aesthetics
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Gong, Heng; Liu, Lingling; Cao, Feng – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This study investigates how Chinese scholars in Applied Linguistics construct different authorial stances in their English and Chinese research articles (RAs) by using interactional metadiscourse comprising boosters, hedges, and self-mentions. A specially designed corpus of 22 Chinese and 22 English RAs written by the same group of Chinese…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages)
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Yujie Zhang; Lawrence Jun Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Syntactic complexity has long been used to gauge language learners' performance, proficiency, and development, offering language teachers valid recommendations for syllabus design and materials development. Progress in syntactic complexity research foreshadows the imperative of measuring syntactic features at a high level of granularity, which…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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Fogal, Gary G. – Language Teaching, 2022
This work provides a chronological and thematic account of empirical studies and position papers on second language (L2) writing scholarship from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective. As a theoretical framework, CDST was formally introduced into applied linguistics research by Diane Larsen-Freeman in 1994 (Larsen-Freeman, 1994).…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Writing Research, Systems Approach
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Abhinan Wongkittiporn – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
The researcher in this study applied the notions of quantitative method, theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics to examine the correlation between the linguistic theory of end-weight principle and English adjective clauses in Q1-SCOPUS applied linguistics articles and Thai EFL learners' descriptive essays. The significance of this study…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Journal Articles
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Binmahboob, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the use of metadiscourse tools by Saudi and British authors in Applied Linguistics discipline. In particular, the study tried to identify the kinds of metadiscourse markers used by Saudi and English authors in ALRAs and to determine the most and least frequent metadiscourse makers. In order to achieve these goals, (10)…
Descriptors: Authors, Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Research Reports
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Ahmed, Sabri Thabit Saleh – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2023
This study revisits the term 'communicative competence' and delves into its details. It presents briefly various models of communicative competence to show what has been written on this term, and then it introduces the term 'communication proficiency' as a broader term that includes all competencies and skills required for communication. It…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Applied Linguistics, Correlation
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Gurney, Laura; Demuro, Eugenia – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
This paper explores two prominent strands of inquiry within new materialism -- Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage thinking and Karen Barad's agential realism -- and situates them in relation to language studies. While a singular definition of new materialist scholarship is not feasible, we argue that the selected approaches have potential to come…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Applied Linguistics, Language Usage, Language Attitudes
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Kyle Perkins; Lawrence Jun Zhang – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The effect of first language transfer on second language acquisition and learning has been a major theoretical concept in second language research and pedagogy since the 1950s. In order to give a historical perspective, the authors offer a brief presentation of some of the major topics from the broad spectrum of issues that have been examined by…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Contrastive Linguistics
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Römer, Ute – Language Teaching, 2022
This plenary speech provides an overview of applications of corpus research in several core areas of applied linguistics, including second language acquisition and language assessment. It does this by showcasing a number of recent studies carried out by or with involvement of the author. These studies all focus on phraseological aspects of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Aarnes Gudmestad; Thomas A. Metzger – Language Learning, 2025
In this Methods Showcase Article, we illustrate mixed-effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable as a means of explaining complexities in language. We model data on future-time reference in second language Spanish, which consists of a nominal dependent variable that has three levels, measured over 73 participants. We offer step-by-step…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Applied Linguistics, Predictor Variables
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