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Download full textMaghsoudi, Mojtaba; Mirzaeian, Vahid – JALT CALL Journal, 2020
EFL university students in general and Iranian EFL university learners in particular, specifically in the commencement of their study at bachelor degree prefer to have their assigned English texts translated into mother tongue since they do not have a good command of the language. Machine translation (MT) has recently turned into a favorite tool…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
Direct linkMehrani, Mehdi B.; Peterson, Carole – First Language, 2017
In the present cross-linguistic study two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of age and linguistic background on response tendencies of preschoolers toward forced-choice questions. A total of 163 2- to 5-year-old children, including 63 Persian speakers, 57 Kurdish speakers and 43 English speakers, were asked a set of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, English, Indo European Languages
MacIntyre, Peter D.; Wang, Lanxi; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
How does a person decide whether she or he is willing to communicate? Dual-process theories have been influential in the literature on the psychology of making judgments and decisions. Dual-process theories make a distinction between cognitive processes that are fast, automatic, and unconscious (also called 'experiential' thinking) and those that…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cowan, J. Ronayne; Sarmed, Zohreh – 1976
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum and the other a split curriculum where half the daily instruction is in one language and the remaining half is in the other, were compared with monolingual control groups. The results…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
