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Dias de Oliveira Santos, Victor – Language Teaching Research, 2015
Knowledge of lexical items is arguably the most essential aspect of being able to communicate in a foreign language (Richards, 2000). Many studies have examined effective strategies for retaining the meaning of foreign words, but studies investigating the effectiveness of different methods for the retention of essential grammatical features of…
Descriptors: Color, Imagery, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Debreslioska, Sandra; Özyürek, Asli; Gullberg, Marianne; Perniss, Pamela – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The tracking of entities in discourse is known to be a bimodal phenomenon. Speakers achieve cohesion in speech by alternating between full lexical forms, pronouns, and zero anaphora as they track referents. They also track referents in co-speech gestures. In this study, we explored how viewpoint is deployed in reference tracking, focusing on…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Connected Discourse, Language Usage