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Slabakova, Roumyana – Language Teaching, 2018
Ever since Aristotle and Plato ("The Categories"; "Cratylus"), linguists have considered language to be the pairing of form (sounds or gestures or written strings) and meaning. This is true for all meaningful linguistic units from morphemes, through words, phrases and sentences, to discourse. Generally speaking, semantics is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Anzures, Aldo; Kvietok, Frances – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
Language revitalization efforts have been critiqued for creating and reproducing linguistic, epistemological, and pedagogical hierarchies that might run counter to a community's needs and interests. Drawing on a seven-year ethnographic and collaborative research with the Maya cultural promoters of the Caste War Museum in Tihosuco, Mexico, we…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Ethnography, War
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Min, Shangchao; He, Lianzhen; Zhang, Jie – Language Teaching, 2020
This article reviews a selected sample of 70 empirical studies in journal articles and doctoral dissertations on language assessment in China between 2011 and 2018. Following a brief introduction to the history and current state of language assessment in China, the article presents a critical review of language assessment research on six themes…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Journal Articles
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Csernicskó, István; Laihonen, Petteri – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
From the early twentieth century to the present day, Transcarpathia has belonged to several states: the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and finally to Ukraine. The status of what counts as a minority and a majority language has changed each time the state affiliation has been changed. Based on…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Dialects, Language Minorities
Leal, Priscila, Ed.; West, Gordon, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2015
The theme for this year's annual graduate student conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (LLL) was "Your Voice, My Voice: Literature, Language, Culture and Society." Translation and interpretation guided the theme for the conference, with Dr. Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier of the Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian…
Descriptors: History, Translation, Literature, Mothers