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Andria, Maria; Serrano, Raquel – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of first language thinking-for-speaking patterns on the acquisition of Greek as a second language (L2), as well as to determine whether proficiency level and stays in the target-language country have an effect on such influence. The participants (N = 50) were Spanish/Catalan learners of…
Descriptors: Greek, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Decision Making
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AuBuchon, Angela M.; Pisoni, David B.; Kronenberger, William G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report how "verbal rehearsal speed" (VRS), a form of covert speech used to maintain verbal information in working memory, and another verbal processing speed measure, perceptual encoding speed, are related to 3 domains of executive function (EF) at risk in cochlear implant (CI) users: verbal…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Short Term Memory, Verbal Communication, Language Processing
Ouyang, Iris Chuoying – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation aims to extend our knowledge of prosody--in particular, what kinds of information may be conveyed through prosody, which prosodic dimensions may be used to convey them, and how individual speakers differ from one another in how they use prosody. Four production studies were conducted to examine how various factors interact with…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Role, Oral Language
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Sample, Mark Graham – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach attempted to turn the EFL world on its head by proposing that language acquisition comes from lexis rather than grammar. Lewis states that "language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks" (1997:3). Lewis' 1997 handbook, "Implementing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Asadi, Ibrahim A.; Ibrahim, Raphiq – Journal of Education and Learning, 2014
The present study examined the impact of "diglossia", a characteristic of the Arabic language, on the development of phonological abilities in the spoken and the literary language forms. Participants were 571 children from 10 grade levels (1-7, 9, 11 and 12), which were recruited from 10 schools by taking into account two important…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Dialects, Phonological Awareness
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Rahmatian, Rouhollah; Mehrabi, Marzieh; Safa, Parivash; Golfam, Arsalan – International Education Studies, 2014
Hesitation, when speaking a foreign language, is studied through its components: beginnings, pauses, and repetitions. This paper aims to identify, through the study of this phenomenon, vulnerable zones among Iranian learners when they speak French. A case study of 30 adult learners shows that hesitation is not random and at different levels (A1 to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Pruitt, Kathryn Ringler – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation proposes a model of word stress in a derivational version of Optimality Theory (OT) called Harmonic Serialism (HS; Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004, McCarthy 2000, 2006, 2010a). In this model, the metrical structure of a word is derived through a series of optimizations in which the "best" metrical foot is chosen…
Descriptors: Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Language Classification, Prediction
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Curtin, Suzanne; Campbell, Jennifer; Hufnagle, Dan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We investigated the effect of lexical stress on 16-month-olds' ability to form associations between labels and paths of motion. Disyllabic English nouns tend to have a strong-weak (trochaic) stress pattern, and verbs tend to have a weak-strong (iambic) pattern. We explored whether infants would use word stress information to guide word-action…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Nouns, Infants, Organizations (Groups)
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Haghshenas, Mahsa Sadat Mousavi; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study examined the effect of etymological elaboration, pictorial elucidation, and integration of these 2 strategies on idiom learning by L2 learners. A total number of 80 homogeneous intermediate learners studying English at 3 language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, were selected. The intermediate participants were selected as the result of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Learning Strategies, Etymology
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Cayton-Hodges, Gabrielle A. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
Mathematical Argumentation skills have historically been overlooked in assessment, but the inclusion of Mathematical Argumentation in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as one of the Standards of Mathematical Practice challenges assessment developers to assess this mathematical practice. Explanation and justification of one's own thinking to a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation
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Li, Ee Hui; Hew, Soon Hin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2017
Storytelling plays a vital role to impart a nation's tradition, cultural beliefs and history to future generation. It is frequently used for the purpose of sharing or exchanging information as it enables the messages to be conveyed to the audience easily. Storytelling acts as a tool of human social interaction and is commonly used in education for…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Language Patterns, Cultural Influences, Chinese
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Gildersleeve-Neumann, Christina E.; Davis, Barbara L.; Macneilage, Peter F. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
To understand the interactions between production patterns common to children regardless of language environment and the early appearance of production effects based on perceptual learning from the ambient language requires the study of languages with diverse phonological properties. Few studies have evaluated early phonological acquisition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syllables, Vowels, Language Patterns
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Hills, Thomas – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were compared longitudinally across six language corpora, with four corpora of language directed at…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Word Frequency
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Augustyn, Prisca – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2013
This article offers a critical examination of the current practices and beliefs about vocabulary teaching and learning in typical communicative-approach German classrooms. While research on vocabulary acquisition is scarce, frequency dictionaries reveal that current practice is based heavily on the use of concrete, referential lexemes that may be…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism
Janssen, Stephen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The thesis of this dissertation is that, in the New Testament Pauline letters, the article is used with a noun only if the writer assumes identifiability on the part of the reader, and does not wish to give prominence to the constituent concerned. Otherwise, the anarthrousness of a constituent that is assumed by the author to be known and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Greek, Form Classes (Languages), Nouns
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