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Direct linkIvan Lasan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study explores English-dominant speakers' and English learners' knowledge of (in)formal stylistic variants, their choice of (in)formal styles in relation to social context, their preferences in the use of select (in)formal stylistic variants, and their beliefs about the influence of their other languages. Ten English-dominant undergraduates…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Language Dominance, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hlavac, Jim – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Aptitude is a hypernym used in training and practice-based contexts to refer to a person's natural or acquired ability to do something. It tends to be an attribute that is 'forward-looking', i.e. referring to a person's probability of achieving success in the future. This paper adopts a retrospective perspective in looking at the 'success…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Success, Translation, Language Aptitude
Peer reviewedGentry, J. Richard – Reading World, 1983
Presents a series of 10 true-false statements pertaining to dialect, then discusses the correct answers. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedKinginger, Celeste – Modern Language Journal, 1998
Analysis of French used in teleconferences between American and French university students, relative to technical and discursive dimensions and learners' Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), found much of the language used was beyond these learners' capability, due to heightened classroom anxiety and differences in language varieties used by…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
