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Marie Bissell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dialects vary in their allophonic patterns, which can affect listeners' phonological and lexical representations. I explore how different exposure to dialect-specific allophonic patterns for two vowels in American English, /ae ai/, affects listeners' lexical processing behaviors across three perception tasks: perceptual similarity, priming, and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation
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Phillips Galloway, Emily; Meston, Heather M.; Aguilar, Gladys – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Classrooms are not always linguistically permeable, and instruction focused on bolstering English reading comprehension too often neglects students' additional linguistic resources in languages other than English. However, to the task of comprehending English text, multilingual readers bring a host of communicative resources across multiple…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
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Su, Hang – ELT Journal, 2020
This paper explores the applications of pattern grammar and local grammar in English language teaching, focusing specifically on the design of teaching materials. It shows that grammar patterns can be systematically analysed from a local grammar perspective, and further argues that the practice of local grammar analyses helps to raise language…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Grammar, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
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Devanadera, Aprillette C. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
This study is anchored on Swale's Theory of Genre Analysis and employed Labov and Waletzky's Personal Experience Narrative (PEN) as a narrative framework in analyzing Vietnamese EFL students' patterns of writing. The study reveals that Vietnamese student's rhetorical structure follows a three-step-pattern which is introducing the character,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vietnamese People, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Agnihotri, Rama Kant – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2013
The basic questions that a scholar interested in the study of language asks are concerned with language structure, acquisition, and change. William Labov is a linguist who has deeply influenced the linguistic scene in the past 60 years. It is to Labov's credit that he showed, backed by solid evidence, that the questions concerning language change,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Ghettos, Disadvantaged
Wolfram, Walt – 1993
Two traditional principles have served as the basis for the involvement of linguists in social issues, namely the principle of error correction and the principle of debt incurred (Labov, 1982). It is argued that an additional principle should motivate linguists to take a more proactive role in social issues, the principle of linguistic gratuity.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Ethics, Language Patterns