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Solodka, Anzhelika; Perea, Luis; Romanchuk, Natalia – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Every speaker of a native language undergoes an interlanguage continuum or the way that the language learners go through from the first to the second language. Interlanguage is an essential theory for teachers to know what goes on in the learning process. It makes the teachers look at the varieties of mistaken linguistic forms with an eye for…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Native Speakers, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Alishahi, Afra; Stevenson, Suzanne – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
Semantic roles are a critical aspect of linguistic knowledge because they indicate the relations of the participants in an event to the main predicate. Experimental studies on children and adults show that both groups use associations between general semantic roles such as Agent and Theme, and grammatical positions such as Subject and Object, even…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Verbs, Grammar
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O'Toole, John Mitchell; King, Robert A. R. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
This quantitative study intends to better understand the impact of the location of the first deleted word upon the estimation of text difficulty yielded by successive cloze tests based on random deletion from a single passage. The variation in sampling of language features across five cloze tests based on the same passage is random and thus not…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Readability, Nouns, Figurative Language
Nall, Timothy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This dissertation explores the robust confluence of syntactic and cultural factors involved in the structure and content of chengyu. It unpacks a number of structural tendencies in the data sample, and illuminates selected underlying cultural themes. The presence of syntactic and semantic parallelism within chengyu, as an expression of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Patterns, Syntax, Cultural Influences
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Wood, David – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2009
While knowledge of what constitutes fluent speech has developed over the past several decades, it is still unclear how language teachers can facilitate its acquisition by second language learners. Fluency is generally accepted as being a function of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speaking and the number of words or syllables uttered…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Second Language Instruction
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Liontas, John I. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This article deals with current notions of idiomaticity. It argues that lack of adequate empirical study and scholarship has prompted some authors to apply research findings from first language (L1) to second language (L2) contexts without scrutinizing more closely the factors affecting L2 idiom understanding. As a result, certain propositions…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Critical Theory, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Kalyuga, Marika; Kalyuga, Slava – Language Learning Journal, 2008
Patterns of language are usually perceived, learned and used as meaningful chunks that are processed as a whole, resulting in a reduced learning burden and increased fluency. The ability to comprehend and produce lexical chunks or groups of words which are commonly found together is an important part of language acquisition. This paper…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Figurative Language, Prior Learning, Short Term Memory
Pankhurst, Anne – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1995
This study considers some problems of reference found in figurative language, particularly in metaphor and metonymy. Analysis is based on the notion that the effects communicated by figurative language depend to a large extent on reference to more than one concept, experience, or entity, and that the presence of multiple potential referents…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Di Pietro, Robert J. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1971
The distinction between artifact and tool is introduced into the study of language diversity and the posting of linguistic universals. A complicating factor in all language investigations is the use of language as the chief tool to create new language. Analogy and metaphor are considered as two major creative forces at work in all languages.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Creativity, Deep Structure