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Gray, Bethany; Geluso, Joe; Nguyen, Phuong – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
In the present study, we take a longitudinal, corpus-based perspective to investigate short-term (over 9 months) linguistic change in the language produced for the spoken and written sections of the "TOEFL iBT"® test by a group of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners in China. The goal of the study is to identify patterns that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Testing, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency
Hadidi, Yaser; Khodadadi, Golsa – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2018
Appraisal/Evaluation within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a rather new framework for the analysis of evaluative language, focusing on how human beings reveal their emotions directly or indirectly, how they take stances, and how they align or disalign themselves with social subjects. Through an attitudinal analysis of the system of…
Descriptors: Speeches, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Malt, Barbara C.; White, Anne; Ameel, Eef; Storms, Gert – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Much has been said about children's strategies for mapping elements of meaning to words in toddlerhood. However, children continue to refine word meanings and patterns of word use into middle childhood and beyond, even for common words appearing in early vocabulary. We address where children past toddlerhood diverge from adults and where they more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Biomechanics, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
Miettinen, Hanna; Watson, Greg – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper (Note 1) examines the form sort of in British men and women's speech, and investigates whether there is a gender difference in the use of this form. We do so through corpus analysis of the British National Corpus (BNC). We contend there is no quantitative difference in the use of sort of in men and women's speech. Contrary to general…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Computational Linguistics, Gender Differences, Language Patterns
Liontas, John I. – TESOL Journal, 2015
Building on previous theoretical constructs and empirical findings on idioms, this article advances an integrated theoretical and methodological framework for developing idiomatic competence in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). Beginning with a definition of the term "idiomatic competence," the author then presents a…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Competence, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Alrishan, Amal; Smadi, Oqlah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the difficulties that Jordanian EFL University students encounter in translating English idioms into Arabic. The participants of the study were all M.A translation students at Yarmouk University and the University of Jordan who were selected purposefully. The total number of the students who participated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Shafto, Carissa L.; Havasi, Catherine; Snedeker, Jesse – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Languages differ in how they package the components of an event into words to form sentences. For example, while some languages typically encode the manner of motion in the verb (e.g., running), others more often use verbs that encode the path (e.g., ascending). Prior research has demonstrated that children and adults have lexicalization biases;…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Semantics, Generalization
Lin, Qiuming – English Language Teaching, 2017
The current study aims to investigate the discursive construction and navigation of agency in oral narratives of English learning by Chinese college English majors. Based on the theoretical framework integrating Bamberg et. al.'s theory of identity dilemma and Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics, the study has addressed two research…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students)
Tomas, Ekaterina; van de Vijver, Ruben; Demuth, Katherine; Petocz, Peter – First Language, 2017
Morphophonological alternations can make target-like production of grammatical morphemes challenging due to changes in form depending on the phonological environment. This article explores the acquisition of morphophonological alternations involving the interacting patterns of vowel deletion and stress shift in Russian-speaking children (aged…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
Noguerón-Liu, Silvia; Shimek, Courtney Hokulaniokekai; Bahlmann Bollinger, Chelsey – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways emergent bilingual first-graders draw on multiple linguistic resources during reading assessments and the participation of their Spanish-dominant parents in those assessments, as children engaged in English and Spanish retelling tasks. Informed by a translanguaging lens, sociopsycholinguistic and…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Bilingualism
Greenwood, Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation begins with the observation of a typological asymmetry within phonological patterns related to phonetic naturalness. Patterns that are rooted within existing tendencies of perception and/or production--in other words, patterns that are phonetically "natural"--are common in phonological typology and seen in a variety of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Patterns, Phonology, Classification
Sangeen, Sakhidad – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
This study investigates the English collocations with Afghanistan Persian dialect equivalents words in the Afghanistanian context. This study aims to bring out the variations between English and Afghanistanian Persian dialect to analyze weather the collocational differences in English and Afghanistanian Persian dialect may create any problem of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Terry, Kristen M. Kennedy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study uses a mixed-effects model to examine the acquisition of targetlike patterns of phonological variation by 17 English-speaking learners of French during study abroad in France. Naturalistic speech data provide evidence for the incipient acquisition of a phonological variable showing sociostylistic variation in native speaker speech: the…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Phonology
Babaii, Esmat; Ramazani, Kambiz – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
The relationship between language learners' L1 and L2 writing productions has attracted the attention of researchers since Kaplan (1966). Along this research line, the present study aimed to explore the reverse transfer of rhetorical patterns from English (L2) to Persian (L1) in the argumentative essays of EFL students in Iran. Sixty MA university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Godwin-Jones, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
Although data collection has been used in language learning settings for some time, it is only in recent decades that large corpora have become available, along with efficient tools for their use. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) have enabled rich tagging and annotation of corpus data, essential for their effective use in language…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure