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Alejandro Gómez-Camacho; Juan de-Pablos-Pons; Pilar Colás-Bravo; Jesús Conde-Jiménez – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Instant messaging applications integrated in smartphones have favored the emergence of new digital writing systems, which are characterized by the use of specific spellings called textisms. This study analyses the relationship between the use of textisms and spelling mistakes in academic texts. The methodology applied was descriptive, based on a…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Social Media, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
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Kaivanpanah, Shiva; Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
The role of grammatical knowledge in inferencing word meaning has not received proper attention in L2 research. Addressing this issue, the present paper provides research-based and introspective think-aloud data to examine the contribution of grammatical knowledge to inferencing the meaning of unknown words. It addresses (a) the effects of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Atai, Mahmoud Reza; Ahmadi, Hossein – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2007
This study investigated the effects of linguistic simplification and content schemata on reading comprehension and recall. The participants, 240 Iranian male students of English as a foreign language (EFL), were divided into 4 homogeneous groups, each consisting of 60 participants (30 with high proficiency and 30 with low proficiency). To elicit…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Schemata (Cognition), Linguistics, Reading Comprehension