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Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Delorme Benites, Alice; Lehr, Caroline – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Recent developments in machine translation (MT) might have led some people to believe that soon professional translation will not be needed, but most translator trainers are aware of the high demand for the quality that MT systems cannot deliver without human intervention. It is thus important that professional translators, trainers and their…
Descriptors: Translation, Professional Education, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software
Davie, Jim – Applied Language Learning, 2023
Graduates who typically have L1 English, have majored in one foreign language (FL, L2) or more at university and have gone on to occupy FL posts in the UK civil service have reported mismatches between their pre-employment L2 learning and the tasks they face in the workplace. Such reported divergences in UK civil service capability have not,…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Majors (Students)
Hermans, Daan; Ormel, E.; van Besselaar, Ria; van Hell, Janet – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Is the bilingual language production system a dynamic system that can operate in different language activation states? Three experiments investigated to what extent cross-language phonological co-activation effects in language production are sensitive to the composition of the stimulus list. L1 Dutch-L2 English bilinguals decided whether or not a…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemes, Bilingual Education, Indo European Languages
Toth, Paul D. – Language Learning, 2008
This study compares quantitative and qualitative results for task-based second language (L2) grammar instruction conducted as whole-class, teacher-led discourse (TLD) versus small-group, learner-led discourse (LLD). Participants included 78 English-speaking adults from six university classes of beginning L2 Spanish, with two assigned to each…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grammar, English, Native Speakers
Kemper, Susan; Estill, Robert – 1981
A study investigated the immediate comprehension processes involved in the interpretation of English idiomatic expressions. Idioms such as "bury the hatchet" were presented to 48 college students in sentential contexts that either biased the subject toward a literal or a figurative interpretation or left the interpretation ambiguous. In control…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, English

Bonvillian, John D.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
The relationship between sign language rehearsal and written free recall was examined by having deaf college students rehearse the sign language equivalents of printed English words. Studies of both immediate and delayed memory suggested that word recall increased as a function of total rehearsal frequency and frequency of appearance in rehearsal…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Deafness, English

Polomska, Margaret – Second Language Research, 1988
An exploratory application of the "acquisitional strategies" framework investigated English-speaking language learners' acquisition of preposition stranding in Dutch. Interesting syntactic and morphological contrasts in both English and Dutch render the framework a valuable empirical tool for evaluating language acquisition strategies. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Dutch, English, Higher Education, Language Processing
Wong, Jean – 1997
A study examined repair in native-nonnative (Mandarin) speaker English conversation, focusing primarily on the previously unobserved lexical element "yeah" which occurs in a speaker's ongoing or same turn at talk. Conversational analysis was used to examine the data collected and transcribed. The data was composed of roughly 120 pages of…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, English, Higher Education

Young, Dolly Jesusita; Oxford, Rebecca – Applied Language Learning, 1997
Examined the strategies used by native-English-speaking foreign language (FL) learners to read Spanish and English texts in order to investigate differences in FL reading strategies between males and females. Results indicate that students processed the Spanish and English passages using local and global strategies, respectively, and that males…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Language Processing
Judd, Joel B. – 1988
A study examined the effects of formal and informal learning environments on the storage and recall of lexical items in the first and second languages, paying specific attention to laterality and accuracy rates for tasks of varying difficulty. The study used the dichotic listening task and subjects whose first language was English and whose second…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, College Students, Difficulty Level, Educational Environment
MacDonald, Maryellen C. – 1987
A study investigated differential processing of adjectival and verbal passives in English, and the implications for linguistic theory. The subjects, 30 native-English-speaking college students, were presented with word triples in which one member was an adjective, one an adjectival passive, and one a verbal passive, and with three two-sentence…
Descriptors: Adjectives, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English

Biederman, Irving; Tsao, Yao-Chung – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
When Chinese adults tried to name the color of characters which represented conflicting color words, they showed greater interference than did English speaking readers of the same task in English. This effect cannot be attributed to bilingualism. There may be fundamental differences in the perceptual demands of reading Chinese and English.…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, Cerebral Dominance, Chinese
Sedelow, Sally Yeates – 1989
An interlingual communication support system that shows semantic matches and mismatches among languages being used for any transaction is discussed. The system uses a thesaurus approach to the meaning structure of language, which is hierarchical, but uses a cross-hierarchical approach to access different meanings for selection of the appropriate…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Chinese, Computer Oriented Programs
Vignola, Marie-Josee – 1995
The study described here attempted to shed light on decision-making during first language (English) and second language (French) writing processes of French immersion program graduates. It also replicated part of a previous study on the role of first language (L1) writing skills and second language (L2) competence when writing in L2. A think-aloud…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making, English, Foreign Countries
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 32 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) textual relations within the written and spoken modes; (2) the construction of stance in conflict narrative; (3) the relational base theory of phrase…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Discourse Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Doctoral Dissertations
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