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Xiuhong Tong; Liyan Yu; S. Hélène Deacon – Review of Educational Research, 2025
Theories of reading comprehension have widely predicted a role for syntactic skills, or the ability to understand and manipulate the structure of a sentence. Yet, these theories are based primarily on English, leaving open the question of whether this remains true across typologically different languages such as English versus Chinese. There are…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mammadzada, Sabina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
The article highlights the importance of transliteration in the field of machine translation, correct writing of personal and place names, and information retrieval. It provides an overview of various approaches, models and methods available in the field of transliteration. It shows the types of transliteration methods. The article also highlights…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Naming, Information Retrieval
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Suntornsawet, Jirada – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
The expansion of the English language produced by non-native speakers has, in recent decades, been discussed by applied linguists from various theoretical perspectives. The discussion has highlighted evidence showing that the multiplicity and diversity of English uses have given rise to an acceleration in the rate of inter-variety contacts where…
Descriptors: Thai, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Key, Mary Ritchie – Etnolinguistica, 1988
This article explores the traditionally accepted etymologies of several lexical borrowings in the indigenous languages of the Americas within the framework of comparative linguistics and linguistic classification. The first section presents a general discussion of the problem of tracing lexical borrowings in this context. The section features a…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Etymology, Foreign Countries
Grayshon, Matthew C. – 1980
Different languages code messages in different ways and use different channels for sending messages; thus there are many places for misinterpreting and mishearing messages in an intercultural context. To move from one language to another requires a description of the total language communication system, one that has its universals in social and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Language Classification, Language Research
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Zobl, Helmut – Language Learning, 1986
A review of research about second language learning indicates that nonprimary acquisition is sensitive to the center-periphery distinction. There is clear evidence that this construct has reflexes in interlanguage word order with respect to the probability of native word order influence, difficulty, and order of emergence. (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Correlation, Discourse Analysis, Interference (Language)