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F0 Patterns of Tone versus Non-Tone Languages: The Case of Vietnamese Speakers of English
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Nguy?n, Anh-Thu T – Second Language Research, 2020
This article reports a study that aimed to find out whether F0 patterns of L2 English produced by Vietnamese speakers are different to those of native English speakers, whether the non-native F0 patterns are transferred from Vietnamese, and to what extent English and Vietnamese F0 profiles differ. Ten native/L1 Australian English speakers, 20…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Vietnamese, Comparative Analysis, Native Language
Learning Register Variation. A Web-Based Platform for Developing Diaphasic Skills
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Allora, Adriano; Corino, Elisa; Onesti, Cristina – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
The present paper shows the first results of a linguistic project devoted to the construction of web learning tools for reinforcing sensitivity to diaphasic varieties and for learning style variation in L2/LS learning. (Contains 1 figure and 1 footnote.) [Support for this research was provided by the VALERE Project.]
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
"They're in My Culture, They Speak the Same Way": African American Language in Multiethnic High Schools
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Paris, Django – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
In this article, Paris explores the deep linguistic and cultural ways in which youth in a multiethnic urban high school employ linguistic features of African American Language (AAL) across ethnic lines. The author also discusses how knowledge about the use of AAL in multiethnic contexts might be applied to language and literacy education and how…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Urban Schools, Literacy Education, Linguistics