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Davies, Ben; Miller, David; Infante, Nicole – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
We report on a series of task-based interviews in which nine mathematicians were asked to evaluate a series of six mathematical arguments, purportedly produced either by fellow mathematicians or undergraduate students. In this paper, we attend to the role of context in mathematicians' responses, leading to four themes in expectations when…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Validity, Mathematical Logic, Persuasive Discourse
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Pintér, Lilla; Surányi, Balázs – First Language, 2023
Previous research has uncovered that, despite the omnipresence of focus in utterances, children typically do not compute the exhaustivity inference associated with cleft(-like) syntactic focus constructions at adult-like levels before 7 years of age. Children's comparable limitations with lexically triggered scalar implicatures, inferences with an…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
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Albu, Elena; Tsaregorodtseva, Oksana; Kaup, Barbara – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Negative sentences are hard to process when they are presented out of context. When embedded in a context of plausible denial their processing difficulty decreases or is completely eliminated. We investigated in six behavioral experiments whether the processing of negation is eased in a denial context triggered by discourse markers (e.g.…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Sentence Structure, Language Processing, Difficulty Level
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Pishtari, Gerti; Prieto, Luis P.; Rodriguez-Triana, Maria Jesus; Martinez-Maldonado, Roberto – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022
This research was triggered by the identified need in literature for large-scale studies about the kinds of designs that teachers create for mobile learning (m-learning). These studies require analyses of large datasets of learning designs. The common approach followed by researchers when analyzing designs has been to manually classify them…
Descriptors: Scaling, Classification, Context Effect, Telecommunications
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Horvath, Sabrina; Arunachalam, Sudha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined whether 2-year-olds are better able to acquire novel verb meanings when they appear in varying linguistic contexts, including both content nouns and pronouns, as compared to when the contexts are consistent, including only content nouns. Additionally, differences between typically developing toddlers and late talkers…
Descriptors: Verbs, Learning Processes, Eye Movements, Nouns
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Hsiao, Yaling; Bird, Megan; Norris, Helen; Pagán, Ascensión; Nation, Kate – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Semantic diversity quantifies the similarity in the content of contexts a word has been experienced in. Four experiments investigated its effect on lexical and semantic judgments in 9- to 10-year-olds and adults. In Experiment 1, a cross-modal semantic judgment task, participants decided whether a visually presented word matched an audio…
Descriptors: Semantics, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Children
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Zand-Moghadam, Amir; Samani, Fatemeh Mohandes – TESL-EJ, 2021
Although the effective role of instruction in developing L2 learners' pragmatic competence has been acknowledged in the literature, very few studies have investigated the effect of a specific language teaching method on the development of pragmatic competence. Thus, to address the existing gap, this study was conducted (1) to investigate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pragmatics
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Costa, Denise Reis; Chen, Chia-Wen – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Given the ongoing development of computer-based tasks, there has been increasing interest in modelling students' behaviour indicators from log file data with contextual variables collected via questionnaires. In this work, we apply a latent regression model to analyse the relationship between latent constructs (i.e., performance, speed, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Leander S. Hughes – Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 2023
Previous research comparing communicative to non-communicative computer-mediated tasks requiring output production found an advantage in L2 vocabulary learning efficiency in favor of the communicative task (Hughes, 2023). The present study analyzes the chat data from Hughes (2023) to determine what features of interaction may have contributed to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Task Analysis
Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2023
Purpose: Children's ability to adjust one's language according to discourse context is important for success in academic settings. This study examined whether second graders vary in linguistic and discourse features depending on discourse contexts, that is, when describing pictures in contextualized (describing the picture to an examiner while…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Adjustment, Grade 2, Discourse Analysis
Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Children's ability to adjust one's language according to discourse context is important for success in academic settings. This study examined whether second graders vary in linguistic and discourse features depending on discourse contexts, that is, when describing pictures in contextualized (describing the picture to an examiner while…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Adjustment, Grade 2, Discourse Analysis
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van den Broek, Gesa S. E.; Takashima, Atsuko; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Learning, 2018
Learning new vocabulary from context typically requires multiple encounters during which word meaning can be retrieved from memory or inferred from context. We compared the effect of memory retrieval and context inferences on short- and long-term retention in three experiments. Participants studied novel words and then practiced the words either…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Context Effect, Vocabulary Development, Memory
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Tagliani, Marta; Vender, Maria; Melloni, Chiara – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Italian relative clauses like "Il bambino che bacia la mamma" 'the child that kisses the mom' are ambiguous between a subject reading and an object reading with postverbal subject. However, the latter is scarcely accessible for word order and theory-internal considerations. This study aims at investigating the role of semantic…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Knowledge Level, Phrase Structure
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Orita, Naho; Ono, Hajime; Feldman, Naomi H.; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Although the Japanese reflexive "zibun" can be bound both locally and across clause boundaries, the third-person pronoun "kare" cannot take a local antecedent. These are properties that children need to learn about their language, but we show that the direct evidence of the binding possibilities of "zibun" is sparse…
Descriptors: Japanese, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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Han, Insuk – SAGE Open, 2022
Based on the comprehensive comparison of the principles of communicative language teaching (CLT) and the pedagogic ideas of Confucian heritage culture (CHC), this study discusses the conceptual common ground, where both principles can be reconciled, and considers practical, negotiated pedagogic forms with the suggestion of some cases of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Confucianism
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