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Ashley R. Moore – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Linguistic distancing behaviours indicative of linguistic dissociation (Moore, 2023) have been documented in social scientific and literary accounts focusing on the lives of Japanese-English late plurilinguals (LPs; e.g. Harrison, 2011; Kelsky, 2001; McMahill, 2001; Mori, 1997; Takahashi, 2013). Across these cases, diverse Japanese-English LPs…
Descriptors: Language Role, Japanese, Language Research, Bilingualism
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Toomaneejinda, Anuchit; Saengboon, Saksit – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The prevalent use of ELF in global communication necessitates a rethinking of what theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches are appropriate to explain the changing and complex nature of intercultural interactions, particularly, those whereby English is recognised as a passport. This review accounts for ELF interactions in terms of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zhang, Weiwei – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper discussed the relationship between language, ecology, and culture, and claimed that the study of linguistic communication as pragmatics should not be confined to the traditional context, but should focus on a broader ecological environment. It analyzed the context of practical communication from the perspective of language ecology…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Classification, Correlation, Ecology
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Benati, Alessandro – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
In this paper, the role and nature of language and language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and complex system. Input (ii) plays a key role in language development; despite the fact that some knowledge of language is innate (iii). Overall,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Input
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Duff, Patricia A. – Modern Language Journal, 2017
The majority of recent research on language learning motivation has reportedly focused on English as a target language, typically in relatively homogeneous, secondary and postsecondary "foreign language" settings. How applicable, then, are the theories and findings undergirding that research to our understanding of the contemporary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Learning Theories
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Garcia-Mayo, Maria del Pilar – International Journal of English Studies, 2012
Multilingualism has established itself as an area of systematic research in linguistic studies over the last two decades. The multilingual phenomenon can be approached from different perspectives: educational, formal linguistic, neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic, among others. This article presents an overview of cognitive…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Irish
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Snow, Don – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
While the defining cases of diglossia offered in Charles Ferguson's 1959 article have long been useful as vehicles for introducing this important form of societal multilingualism, they are also problematic in that they differ from each other in a number of significant ways. This article proposes a modified and more precise framework in which…
Descriptors: Dialects, Multilingualism, Classification, Classical Languages
Morse, Kira Gulko – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The existing literature views the phenomenon of language shift mostly on the societal, or macro, level, which takes the focus away from individual cases. This investigation provides an alternative perspective to the currently prevalent view. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to develop an understanding of the role of personal choice in…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Phenomenology, Individual Differences
Dombrowski, Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is focused on analyzing phonological contact between Slavic and non-Slavic languages in southeastern and northeastern Europe, with the particular goal of describing how the social context of language contact interacts with linguistic factors to shape the outcome of contact-induced change. On the basis of case studies drawn from…
Descriptors: Language Research, Slavic Languages, Phonology, Social Status
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Belikova, Alyona; White, Lydia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This article examines how changes in linguistic theory affect the debate between the fundamental difference hypothesis and the access-to-Universal Grammar (UG) approach to SLA. With a focus on subjacency (Chomsky, 1973), a principle of UG that places constraints on "wh"-movement and that has frequently been taken as a test case for verifying…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar
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Narasimhan, R. – World Englishes, 1997
Justification offered by Steven Pinker for his theory that thought is independent of language, and that thought is couched in some silent medium of the brain ("Mentalese"), is outlined step by step and critiqued. It is argued that the theory ignores deep technical issues and is not explanatory. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Language Processing, Language Research
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Bardel, Camilla; Falk, Ylva – Second Language Research, 2007
In this study of the placement of sentence negation in third language acquisition (L3), we argue that there is a qualitative difference between the acquisition of a true second language (L2) and the subsequent acquisition of an L3. Although there is considerable evidence for L2 influence on vocabulary acquisition in L3, not all researchers believe…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Multilingualism
Williams, Eddie – 1988
The validity of the consensus paradigm dominant in sociolinguistics is questioned. Social scientists working in this paradigm take the perspective of society as an aggregate operating through agreement between its constituent elements, working to the benefit of the aggregate. The best-known of the consensus-oriented theories is…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries
Martin, Pierre – 1993
Current research on the contributions of neurobiology to the understanding of language, and more specifically of phonics, is reviewed. After an introductory section, the second section provides a brief historic perspective on neurolinguistic research, beginning in the early nineteenth century. The third section focuses on what is known about the…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Role
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Marcellesi, Christiane – Langue Francaise, 1976
Presents the theoretical and methodological bases of a study designed to test the validity of Bernstein's theories on the role of language in school segregation. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)
Descriptors: French, Language Research, Language Role, Language Usage
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