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Slonimska, Anita; Özyürek, Asli; Capirci, Olga – Cognitive Science, 2022
Sign languages use multiple articulators and iconicity in the visual modality which allow linguistic units to be organized not only linearly but also simultaneously. Recent research has shown that users of an established sign language such as LIS (Italian Sign Language) use simultaneous and iconic constructions as a modality-specific resource to…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication
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Raksangob Wijitsopon – rEFLections, 2025
In the age when environmental sustainability is among the chief concerns and goals of communities around the world, a number of linguistic studies have been conducted to illuminate the roles of language in protection and destruction of ecological systems. Most of the studies, however, focus on written and/or formal discourses. The present study…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Conservation (Environment)
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Xavier Vila, F.; Ubalde, Josep; Bretxa, Vanessa; Comajoan-Colomé, Llorenç – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This article presents a longitudinal panel study analyzing the evolution of a sample of more than 1000 informants in the language practices with peers during the period between the end of primary education and the end of secondary education in Catalonia. Results led to the identification of five clusters of informants according to their linguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Peer Relationship, Adolescents
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Jing Chen; Yi Jiang – SAGE Open, 2025
Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Alyeksyeyeva, Iryna; Chaiuk, Tetyana; Kovalchuk, Iryna; Galitska, Elizaveta – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The study is aimed at exploring Master's students' sense-making of various second language (L2) texts and its correlation with interpretation depth and the students' intercultural competence. The significance of this research lies in the fact that it provides an insight on culture-specific issues challenging for advanced and proficient Ukrainian…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Schweinberger, Martin – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This study aims to exemplify how language teaching can benefit from learner corpus research (LCR). To this end, this study determines how L1 and L2 English speakers with diverse L1 backgrounds differ with respect to adjective amplification, based on the "International Corpus of Learner English" (ICLE) and the "Louvain Corpus of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning
Jannatussholihah, Siti; Triyono, Sulis – Online Submission, 2019
This research aims to identify the types of interference and factor of interference. The object of this research is the daily conversations of the students at a University in Indonesia. The research focused on English interference that occurs in Javanese Language and Indonesian Language in everyday conversation. Data is obtained by observation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indonesian, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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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
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Hallett, Jill – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2015
This research examines students' use of African American English (AAE) in classrooms with varying levels of procedural and substantive engagement. In this study, classroom context is examined for type of engagement, turn length, and teacher response to student AAE use. Student AAE use is analyzed by ethnicity, gender, and teacher, and by features…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
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Hsiao, Chi-hua – Language Sciences, 2011
Dynamic and interactive uses of personal pronouns are usually not as neat as traditional grammar describes in that the first and second person pronoun index speakers and addressees in a speech event. Devoted to a prevalent feature of Mandarin Chinese conversation--the switch of the first person singular pronoun "wo", "I", and the second person…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Mandarin Chinese, Traditional Grammar
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Tainio, Liisa – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This article uses a conversation analytic framework to explore reproaches in classroom interaction. The data used is naturally occurring Finnish classroom interaction (students aged 13-15). The analysis focuses on reproaches that are used in order to silence students and in which gendered address terms are included. In the data occurrences, the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Interaction, Males, Discourse Analysis
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Tulung, Golda J. – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2013
Drawing on qualitative observation data from a case study of an EFL classroom for pre-medical students in an Indonesian university, this article examines the oral discourse generated through peer interaction while completing two types of communicative tasks in terms of how much language was generated, including the amount of the L2 generated and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Premedical Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Tree, Jean E. Fox; Tomlinson, John M., Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
A comparison across spontaneous speech collected in the 1980s and the 2000s reveals a dramatic flip between the use of "said" versus "like" as enquoting devices. The greater use of "like" is reflected in a wide variety of quotation types including reported speech, thoughts, exclamations, and sounds. There is no…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Usage, Semantics, Language Patterns
Dziugis, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal Investigator (PI) conducted a sociolinguistic experiment focusing on strangers' initial interactions to minimize the influence of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Pallotti, Gabriele, Ed.; Wagner, Johannes, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
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