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Family, Neiloufar; Durus, Natalia; Ziegler, Gudrun – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2015
In this study, we present and analyze co-constructions from L2 English data collected at the European School in Luxembourg. Co-constructions are morpho-syntactic structures split across two speakers, in which a second speaker completes a grammatical structure initiated by the first speaker in conversation. The corpus features multilingual 13-14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Grammar
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Yuewu, Lin; Qin, Yang – English Language Teaching, 2015
Culture-loaded words and expressions are loaded with specific national cultural information and indicate deep national culture. They are the direct and indirect reflection of national culture in the structure of words and expressions. The improper use of culture-loaded words often leads to misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Cultural Influences
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Kao, Yu-Ting – Language Testing in Asia, 2015
Background: This study examined the use of student-teacher interactions through dynamic assessment (DA) to diagnose and promote the learner's comprehension on Chinese writing patterns. Debates over the uses of standardized tests to assess language learners' performance have been ongoing in the field of second language acquisition for many years.…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Language Processing, Chinese, Writing Evaluation
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Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.; Aldaihani, Hussein A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated English teachers' use of learners' L1 (Arabic) in college classrooms in Kuwait. The purpose of the study was three-fold: (1) to describe the functions for which L1 was employed by the teachers, (2) to explore the affective, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic factors that may have led teachers to use L1 in L2 teaching,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Asik, Asuman; Vural, Arzu Sarlanoglu; Akpinar, Kadriye Dilek – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Data-driven learning (DDL) has become an innovative approach developed from corpus linguistics. It plays a significant role in the progression of foreign language pedagogy, since it offers learners plentiful authentic corpora examples that make them analyze language rules with the help of online corpora and concordancers. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Lesniewska, Justyna – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
While it is a well-known fact that speakers of article-less mother tongues, such as Polish, experience problems with articles in English, this study seeks to investigate the problem from a different perspective. Namely, it poses the question of whether the correct use of the article system of the L2 is indeed a purely grammatical task (as it is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Drummond, Alex – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This thesis investigates the implications of binding phenomena for the development of a reductionist theory of grammatical dependencies. The starting point is the analysis of binding and control in Hornstein (2001, 2009). A number of revisions are made to this framework in order to develop a simpler and empirically more successful account of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Semantics, Pragmatics
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Clegg, Jens H. – Hispania, 2011
The teaching of the Spanish noun gender system to students is based on a set of generalizations that the last phoneme, or sound, of a noun is an excellent predictor of the gender of that noun (Bull 1965). These generalized norms have been refined over the years and can be found in most textbooks. The norms are taught to students who then apply…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Nouns, Grammar, Spanish
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Tomlinson, John M., Jr.; Tree, Jean E. Fox – Cognition, 2011
Listeners' comprehension of phrase final rising pitch on declarative utterances, or "uptalk", was examined to test the hypothesis that prolongations might differentiate conflicting functions of rising pitch. In Experiment 1 we found that listeners rated prolongations as indicating more speaker uncertainty, but that rising pitch was unrelated to…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Speech, Listening Comprehension, Experiments
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Molloy, Cathryn – College English, 2010
This essay's explorative argument began to take shape from a misused cliche--one that, when interpreted, stands out to the author as perhaps so interesting that it nearly hinges on the sublime: "love of money is the "route" of all evil." The original cliche, of course, is "love of money is the "root" of all evil." One might ask how far this misuse…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Language Patterns, Writing (Composition), Rhetoric
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Edmonds, Amanda; Gudmestad, Aarnes – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
The current study sets out to investigate collocational knowledge for a set of 13 English amplifiers among native and nonnative speakers of English, by providing a partial replication of one of the projects reported on in Granger (1998). The project combines both phraseological and distributional approaches to research into formulaic language to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, French, Native Language
Leben, Derek – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Lexical semantics is the field of cognitive science which attempts to explain how speakers learn to use and accept sentences like "She filled the glass with water" but avoid and reject sentences like "She poured the glass with water," often with poor or impoverished evidence. In order to explain why some verbs alternate in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Language Patterns, Epistemology
Gougeon, Elliott E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In this dissertation, I take a look at Middle Low German nominal phrases as evidenced in the Lubecker Ratsurteile, a collection of court proceedings published by Wilhelm Ebel in 1955, which cover the years 1421-1550. By digitizing the corpus, I was able to perform a corpus analysis on noun phrases, where I concentrated on determiner use and form,…
Descriptors: German, Nouns, Language Patterns, Court Litigation
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Finley, Sara – Cognitive Science, 2012
Traditional flat-structured bigram and trigram models of phonotactics are useful because they capture a large number of facts about phonological processes. Additionally, these models predict that local interactions should be easier to learn than long-distance ones because long-distance dependencies are difficult to capture with these models.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Phonology, Phonemes, Models
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Mashal, Nira; Kasirer, Anat – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Previous studies have shown metaphoric comprehension deficits in children with learning disabilities. To understand metaphoric language, children must have enough semantic knowledge about the metaphorical terms and the ability to recognize similarity between two different domains. In the current study visual and verbal metaphor understanding was…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Disabilities, Comprehension, Figurative Language
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