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Aspectual Differences in the Preterite and Imperfect in US Spanish: An Analysis of Their Use by Three Generation English Spanish Bilinguals
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Del Carpio, Leslie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As critical approaches to Heritage Language (HL) instruction are increasingly more widespread, it is now more pertinent than ever to conduct research on Spanish linguistic variation that reveals systematicity and refutes hegemonic notions of 'incorrectness'. This variationist study examines the use and distribution of the Preterite and Imperfect…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
Working with Mediagrams: A Methodology for Collaborative Research on Mediational Repertoires in Multilingual Families
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Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper contributes to current sociolinguistic research on the rapidly-changing landscape of digitally mediated communication (Androutsopoulos and Staehr 2018) by presenting mediagrams, a new method for research on transnational mediated interaction. Based on an ethnographic study of mediated multilingual communication in four families with…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography
Resistance Identities and Language Choice in Instagram among Hispanic Urban Artists in Da DMV: Big Data and a Mixed-Method
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Magro, José L. – Education for Information, 2018
The aim of this article is to shed light on the particularities of language choice (Spanish, English, and hybridity) and identity performance among urban music (UM) affiliated individuals from Hispanic immigrant backgrounds interacting through Instagram. The participants reside in Da DMV, an emic term used to refer to the Washington DC (DC)…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Self Concept, Spanish, English (Second Language)
A Double-Edged Sword: The Merits and the Policy Implications of Google Translate in Higher Education
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Mundt, Klaus; Groves, Michael – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Machine translation, specifically Google Translate, is freely available, and is improving in its ability to provide grammatically accurate translations. This development has the potential to provoke a major transformation in the internationalization process at universities, since students may be, in the future, able to use technology to circumvent…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Translation, Educational Policy, Sociolinguistics
Effect of Mobile-Assisted Dialect Awareness Training on the Dialect Attitudes of Prospective English Language Teachers
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Bozoglan, Hilal; Gok, Duygu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a mobile-assisted dialect awareness programme on the dialect attitudes of pre-service English language teachers in Turkey. The study adopted a pre-test and a post-test design including 58 first-grade pre-service English language teachers in two different classes. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics, Scores, Nonstandard Dialects
Actes des Journees de linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (8th, March 24-25, 1994).
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Belyazid, Fatima Zahra, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Languages, Bilingual Education, Child Language