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Rachel Fedorchak; Vade Kamenitsa-Hale; Hunter Thompson Lockwood; Monica Macaulay – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
This paper provides an empirical study of word formation and lexical expansion in a set of Algonquian languages, considering 153 terms for each language. These terms range from words that predate European colonialism to more recent forms coined by English L1 speakers. We propose a classification of the methods of lexical innovation, which involves…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Language Research, Documentation
Al-Rushaidi, Sultan Mohammed Saaiyed – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper seeks to intellectually stimulate researchers who are interested in the history of grammar and the long-standing debate about prescriptivism. Contrary to popular belief, there are scholars who still put forward arguments about the significant role played by prescriptive grammar in the development of Modern Standard English. Such…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rankin, Tom – Second Language Research, 2023
Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides a framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar competition as the model requires a marriage of quantitative properties of the input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational model of grammar competition is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
James M. Stratton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The question of whether second languages (L2s) are best learned implicitly or explicitly has been a topic of much empirical discourse, with the majority of studies pointing to the benefits of explicit instruction when learning L2 grammar rules. However, given the focus on grammar, it is unclear how generalizable these findings are to other…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, Auditory Perception
Andrason, Alexander; Visser, Marianna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The present paper demonstrates that insights from the affordances perspective can contribute to developing a more comprehensive model of grammaticalization. The authors argue that the grammaticalization process is afforded differently depending on the values of three contributing parameters: the factor (schematized as a qualitative-quantitative…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Models, Epistemology
Deng, Lijun – Higher Education Studies, 2020
Based on the preliminary research findings in the project-based flipped learning model in Business English Translation course, this study designed a process-oriented assessment model for this course and tested its efficacy by an empirical study on 181 third-year English major students divided into three experimental class and three control class…
Descriptors: Business English, Flipped Classroom, Student Projects, Translation
Carter, Ronald; McCarthy, Michael – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This article synthesises progress made in the description of spoken (especially conversational) grammar over the 20 years since the authors published a paper in this journal arguing for a re-thinking of grammatical description and pedagogy based on spoken corpus evidence. We begin with a glance back at the 16th century and the teaching of Latin…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, Language Research, Latin
Khabibullina, Elena Viktorovna; Shtyrlina, Ekaterina Gennadievna; Guzi, Lubomir – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The article discusses the features of methods of teaching the history of language in a foreign language classroom. With regard to the increase of the number of applicants who enroll in Russian universities directly on the basis of secondary education, bypassing the preparatory faculties, which arises the problem of an insufficiently prepared group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Universities
Vergne Vargas, Aida M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This thesis examines the role of the African substrate languages in the emergence of Atlantic Creole grammatical structures. Alleyne (1980) and Faraclas (1990) have convincingly demonstrated that a survey of the grammatical features that typify the Colonial Era English-Lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic reveals remarkable similarities with those…
Descriptors: Grammar, Creoles, African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
Le, Uy-Di Nancy, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2018
This year's conference theme, "Be Seen, Be Heard," reflected not only our goal of celebrating our achievements but also represented our intent of making sure everyone's voices are heard, especially during 2017's difficult political climate. The conference opened with a motivating address from Dean Laura E. Lyons, followed by an…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Graduate Students, Language Research, Linguistics
Xiong, Tao; Qian, Yamin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
In this article we examine ideologies of English in present-day China with a special focus on textbook discourse. The research framework is informed by critical theories on language and education. Critical discourse analysis is applied as a methodological approach characterized by a socially committed attitude in the explanation and interpretation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Curriculum Development, Sociolinguistics
Thomason, Sarah G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Jurgen Meisel argues that "grammatical variation...can be described...in terms of parametric variation", and--crucially for his arguments in this paper--that "parameter settings do not change across the lifespan". To this extent he adopts the standard generative view, but he then departs from what he calls "the literature on historical…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Weerman, Fred – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
There is a long linguistic tradition in which language change is explained in terms of first language acquisition. In this tradition, children are considered to be the agents of language change, or at least the agents of changes in the underlying grammar. Since the early 1980s, this has been formulated in the (generative) terminology in terms of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, Old English, Language Acquisition
Tsuchida, Takehiro – Online Submission, 2010
The fact that English non-count abstract nouns such as knowledge are compatible with the indefinite article a/an is not only perplexing for second language (L2) learners of English but also troublesome for both native and non-native English teachers. This paper does research on this curious phenomenon of English grammar to clarify its mechanism…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, English (Second Language)
Yao, Xinyue; Collins, Peter – World Englishes, 2012
This paper reports on a comprehensive corpus-based study of regional and stylistic variation in the distribution of the English present perfect. The data represents ten English varieties of both the Inner Circle and Outer Circle, covering four major text types: conversation, news reportage, academic and fictional writing. The results are discussed…
Descriptors: Language Variation, North American English, Computational Linguistics, Language Styles