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Jing Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article explores how leading textbook authors select and instruct vocabulary in beginner and intermediate Chinese textbooks used in the United States. Leading textbook authors were approached; subsequently; four authors completed interviews with pre-designed questions. Grounded theory methodology was used to analyse the interviews, and their…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Authors, Grammar, Word Frequency
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Ingram, Joanne; Hand, Christopher J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
The influence of domain knowledge on reading behavior has received limited investigation compared to the influence of, for example, context and/or word frequency. The current study tested participants with and without domain knowledge of the "Harry Potter" (HP) universe. Fans and non-fans read sentences containing HP, high-frequency…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Knowledge Level, Fiction, Word Frequency
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Mikhail Vlasov; Oleg Sychev; Olga Toropchina; Irina Isaeva; Elena Zamashanskaya; David Gillespie – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Young people use slang for identifying themselves with a particular social group, gaining social recognition and respect from that group, and expressing their emotional state. One feature of Internet slang is its active use by youth in online communication, which, under certain conditions, may cause problematic Internet use (PIU). We conducted two…
Descriptors: Internet, Language Usage, Computer Mediated Communication, Russian
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Su Tingting; Mohamed Abdou Moindjie; Manjet Kaur A/P Mehar Singh – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
This study examines the use of English film subtitles to cultivate critical language awareness (CLA) and enhance language skills via a corpus-based approach. Creating and analyzing a specialized corpus of film subtitles reveals the cultural, social, and ideological dimensions of language usage. The findings show that film subtitles provide an…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Computational Linguistics, English, Language Usage
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Manuel F. Pulido – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Usage-based theory has proposed that learning of linguistic constructions is facilitated by input that contains few high-frequency exemplars, in what is known as a skewed (or Zipfian) input distribution. Early empirical work provided support to this idea, but subsequent L2 research has provided mixed findings. However, previous approaches have not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
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Vitrano, Deana; Altarriba, Jeanette; Leblebici-Basar, Deniz – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
S.A. Mednick (1962) proposed a theory of creativity suggesting that highly creative individuals can produce more word associations to a stimulus than less creative individuals. Numerous studies have supported this theory using the Remote Associates Test (RAT) as the measure of creativity. Additionally, some studies have suggested that…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Associative Learning, Task Analysis, Creativity
Alex John Quijano – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the ways that natural languages evolve and what it means in the overall cultural evolution of society. Computational and modeling advances have made possible to explore large-scale text data and test hypothesis of language evolution. Similar to biological systems, natural languages are evolving systems with words as…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Diachronic Linguistics, Bibliometrics, Word Frequency
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Yi, Wei; Man, Kaiwen; Maie, Ryo – Language Learning, 2023
In this study, we investigated the accuracy of first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers' intuitive judgments of phrasal frequency and collocation strength, and examined the linguistic influences that give rise to these judgments. L1 and L2 speakers of English judged 180 adjective-noun collocations as (a) high frequency, medium…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Decision Making
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Emad A. Alghamdi; Paul Gruba; Ahmed Masrai; Eduardo Velloso – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Although measures of lexical complexity are well established for printed texts, there is currently no equivalent work for videos. This study, therefore, aims to investigate whether existing lexical complexity measures can be extended to predict second language (L2) learners' judgment of video difficulty. Using a corpus of 320 instructional videos,…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Interactive Video, Computer Assisted Instruction, Word Frequency
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Szreder, Marta; de Ruiter, Laura E.; Ntelitheos, Dimitrios – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study investigates the acquisition of the Imperfective verb inflection paradigm in Emirati Arabic (EA), to determine whether the learning process is sensitive to the phonological and typological properties of the input. We collected data from 48 participants aged 2;7 to 5;9 years, using an elicited production paradigm. Input frequencies of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Accuracy, Foreign Countries
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Alam, Florencia; Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Garber, Leandro; Stein, Alejandra – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The study adopts a naturalistic perspective, looking at the relationship between socio-economic status (SES), activities and variation sets in child-directed speech (CDS) to Spanish-speaking Argentinian toddlers. It aims to determine the effect of SES and type of activity on the proportion of words and utterances in variation sets and on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Toddlers, Speech Communication
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Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Tortorelli, Laura S. – Elementary School Journal, 2022
Texts classified according to guided reading levels (GRL) are ubiquitous in US beginning reading classrooms. This study examined features of texts across three grade bands (kindergarten, early first grade, final first grade) and the 10 GRLs within these bands. The 510 texts came from three programs with different functions in beginning reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Das, Syaamantak; Das Mandal, Shyamal Kumar; Basu, Anupam – Journal of Education, 2022
It was observed from previous researches that Bloom's Taxonomy action verbs (BTAVs) are overlapping in multiple cognitive levels, causing ambiguity about the real sense of the word. A data set of BTAVs was ranked using a statistical classification. Four categories of BTAVs were identified, out of which 153 BTAVs (86.44%) are classified into a…
Descriptors: Verbs, Classification, Taxonomy, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Kruawong, Thana; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
This study investigated three synonymous verbs, "teach," "educate," and "instruct," in terms of their collocational patterns and distribution across genres. Data were drawn from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (2021) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The findings from this…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rungrojsuwan, Sorabud – rEFLections, 2022
Effective communication is one of the most important factors bringing about people's confidence in the information and its source. Most charismatic leaders employ some particular rhetorical devices to gain people's trust with the ultimate goal of bringing peace and prosperity to the nation. The present study aimed at extracting some linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Leadership Styles, Speeches, Foreign Countries
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