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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Research on the distributed practice effect, that is the impact of different intervals between learning sessions, has investigated both intentional and incidental learning of second language vocabulary and grammar targets. This research is complex and has produced conflicting findings: whereas robust effects have been shown for intentional ...
Shona Whyte +3 more
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Noun-modifying clauses in Cantonese
, 2017 Whether relative clauses can be identified in Chinese is a recurrent question. This paper asks whether relative clauses are distinct from other noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese, one of many East Asian languages in which a noun can be ...
Stephen Matthews +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody +5 more
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On predicate nominals in Romanian
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 This paper investigates the interpretative differences between bare singular nominal predicates (BNPs) and singular indefinite nominals in predicate position (SIPs) in Romanian, for those nouns that can appear in both types of structures.
Camelia Constantinescu +1 more
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Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
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Pluralità e classificatori: una riflessione sul sintagma nominale in thai
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico MilaneseThis paper deals with the expression of plurality in Thai, a classifier language part of the controversial Tai-Kadai family. Although it does not present a specific morphological mark of number, as it is usually the case in classifier languages, Thai ...
Chiara Meluzzi
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into digital multimodal composing (DMC) offers promising avenues for young Foreign Language (FL) learners' learning experiences. Image‐based GenAI tools enable students to generate personalized images from written prompts to help convey meanings, and DMC combines text, images, and sound to
Alex Lap‐kwan Lam
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Comparative Analysis of Stress Adaptation in the Yeast Microbiome of Cactus
Yeast, EarlyView.Yeasts and related fungi isolated from cacti or nearby non‐cactus plants were characterized phenotypically and genomically, revealing differences that hint at modes of adaptation to the cactus host. ABSTRACT Together with other fungi, yeasts make up a significant component of the plant microbiome. As the planet warms, cacti expand their range.
Alya N. Hussain +2 more
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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