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L2 Arabic Dialect Comprehension: Empirical Evidence for the Transfer of Familiar Dialect Knowledge to Unfamiliar Dialects

open access: yesL2 Journal, 2011
Arabic is a diglossic language, and learners must become competent in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and a spoken dialect. However, Arabic dialects are typically not taught in U.S. classrooms. One reason is the question of which dialect to teach? This
Emma Trentman
doaj  

What to Teach: Bilingual Arabic Teachers' Beliefs and Stances about Pedagogical Translanguaging and Transdialecting

open access: yesCritical Multilingualism Studies
This translingual qualitative study draws on semi-structured translingual and transdialect interviews conducted with seven bi/multilingual Arabic teachers in the American Midwest. This paper examines Arabic bilingual teachers’ beliefs on translanguaging (
Youmna Deiri
doaj   +2 more sources

Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognition [PDF]

open access: yes2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2020
This paper presents the design and development of multi-dialect automatic speech recognition for Arabic. Deep neural networks are becoming an effective tool to solve sequential data problems, particularly, adopting an end-to-end training of the system.
openaire   +2 more sources

L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Previously Unidentified Turkish Words in the Syrian Dialect of Arabic

open access: yesŞarkiyat Mecmuası
Language is a living organism that both influences and is influenced by others, and interaction between languages is a natural process. Due to geographical and cultural proximity, Turkish and Arabic languages, along with their dialects, have experienced ...
Muhammed Akif
doaj   +1 more source

Punjabi (India and Pakistan) – Language Snapshot

open access: yesLanguage Documentation and Description, 2020
Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab states of India and Pakistan. There are two major divisions of Punjabi dialects: Eastern and Western.
doaj   +2 more sources

“It Can't be Translated Into a Conventional English Phrase”: Crafting Academic Identities Through Translingual Writing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative multiple case study explores multilingual postgraduate students’ academic identities through writing at an EMI university in Hong Kong, with a focus on how they gain legitimacy in knowledge‑making with their multilingual repertoires. Grounded in a poststructuralist understanding of identities as fluid and negotiated, the study
Siqi Song, Ken Lau
wiley   +1 more source

Sound Symbolism and Reduplicated Quadrilaterals in Colloquial Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Traditionally the task of studying and compiling inventories of words possessing qualities of sound symbolism and onomatopoeia have fallen to the lexicographers as most Arabic grammarians have seen the phenomena as linguistically irrelevant. In classical
Sammarco, Joseph
core   +1 more source

Variation in polar interrogative contours within and between Arabic dialects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Quantitative analysis of fundamental frequency (F0) contours in yes/no-questions and coordinated questions, are compared across eight Arabic dialects, based on scripted role play data from the Intonational Variation in Arabic corpus [1]. Visualisation of
Sam Hellmuth, Hellmuth, Sam
core   +1 more source

Multilingual Digital Search Behavior Reveals Cultural Disparities in Vitiligo Information Needs in Germany

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.
Multilingual vitiligo‐related Google search queries in Germany (October 2019–May 2023) were extracted and thematically coded across German, English, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, and Polish. Relative patterns highlighted language‐specific emphases in treatment information, camouflage, depigmentation, psychosocial burden, and faith/home‐remedy terms ...
Lilian Rauch   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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