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Paola Uccelli – Written Communication, 2023
Analytical writing poses particularly challenging, yet often overlooked, language demands that need attention in educational research and practice. In this article, I discuss the Core Analytical Language Skills (CALS) construct and its relevance for school reading and writing. CALS refer to the set of learners' school-relevant language resources…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Reading Materials
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van Compernolle, Rémi A. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2017
Drawing on data collected via a web-based survey, the study investigates the relationship between preferences for (in)formal language and attitudes toward linguistic variation among a large group of monolingual and multilingual adults (n = 379). Also explored are the links between preferences for (in)formal language and several secondary…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Preferences
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Yoder, Zachariah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The recorded text test (RTT) is commonly used to test dialect intelligibility, often to inform language development decisions. More than 25 papers using the RTT method were published on www.sil.org/silesr from January 2009 to March 2013. As introduced by Casad [1974. "Dialect Intelligibility Testing." Summer Institute of Linguistics…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Minorities, Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility
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Saito, Kazuya; Shintani, Natsuko – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
The current study examined the extent to which native speakers of North American and Singapore English differentially perceive the comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Spontaneous speech samples elicited from 50 Japanese learners of English with various proficiency levels were first rated by 10 Canadian and 10…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, North American English, Pronunciation, English