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Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Artificial language learning research has become a popular tool to investigate universal mechanisms in language learning. However, often it is unclear whether the found effects are due to learning, or due to artefacts of the native language or the ...
Dinah Baer-Henney, Kevin Tang
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Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2023 The article explores the ways in which illustrated magazines of the Weimar period contribute to a larger gendering of transnational exchange, particularly through image-text doubling and shifts.
Ruth Mayer
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Multimodal Resolution of Overlapping Talk in Video-Mediated L2 Instruction
Languages, 2022 This paper investigates a pervasive phenomenon in video-mediated interaction (VMI), namely, simultaneous start-ups, which happen when two speakers produce a turn beginning in overlap.
Taiane Malabarba +2 more
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Is Adult Second Language Acquisition Defective?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 There is a large literature showing that adult L2 learners, in contrast to children, often fail to acquire native-like competence in the second language.
Ewa Dąbrowska +3 more
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Accuracy and Fluency Teaching and the Role of Extramural English: A Tale of Three Countries
Languages, 2022 European learners of English are increasingly using this language recreationally, which is referred to as Extramural English (henceforth EE). The level of EE use in a given country might be reflected in English Language Teaching (ELT) practices.
Alexandra Schurz +2 more
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Making Unstrange: Theory and Second-Person Fiction
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2022 Russian Formalism’s suggestion that artistic literature makes the familiar strange finds echoes in today’s theories of “unnatural narrative.” “Naturalization” of seemingly strange texts understands uncanny literary effects as based on qualities of ...
Joshua Parker
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabraʼs In Search of Walid Masoud. A Polyphony of (Un)Orchestrated Opus [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019 This paper makes use of Mikhail Bakhtinʼs notion of polyphony to approach In Search of Walid Masoud, a novel written in Arabic by the Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra in 1978 and translated into English by Roger Allen and Adnan Haydar in 2000.
Ibrahim A. El-Hussari
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Exploring the Effect of Social Accommodation and Informal Input in Second Language Acquisition
Language, Technology, and Social MediaAccommodation and input both are essential parts of acquiring a second or first language. This study examined the effect of social accommodation and informal input in acquiring a second language in two different contexts namely Bangladeshi and Thai ...
Borendra Lal Tripura +2 more
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF TRANSFER OF ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS ACROSS TIME [PDF]
Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2017 This study investigates university students' perceptions towards an English for advanced academic writing purposes (AAW) course taught in a private university in the United Arab Emirates. It probes into the relevance of the skills taught to the students'
Tharwat EL-Sakran +2 more
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Aptitude and experience as predictors of grammatical proficiency in adult Greek-English bilinguals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 It has been shown that individuals exhibit great variability in second language (L2) ultimate attainment. Some speakers reach native-like proficiency, others only achieve a rudimentary command and many lie in the middle.
Leonarda Prela +4 more
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