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Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so with a view to the effects on the socialization of international students who are attracted by the global promotion of such programs and the ...
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez‐Milans
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Is Culture Reflected in Transliteration? Transliteration of Chinese Street Food Names in Malaysia
SAGE OpenStreet foods in Malaysia, which are enjoyed by a variety of ethnic groups, provide insights into the country’s sociocultural reality. However, relatively few studies have explored the street food names from a translation perspective.
Hongxiang Zhu, Lay Hoon Ang
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Chan See Shu Yuen: The Cantonese Ancestral Clan in Malaysia as Transnational Social Support Network
Historia Social y de la Educación, 2020 Chinese clan associations can be found in many parts of the world, due to the Chinese emigration from mainland China in the 1800s. This paper contextualises the study of Chinese clan associations within the Asian approach to cultural heritage ...
Rachel Suet Kay Chan +1 more
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, 2021 The translation and adaptation of regional and social varieties represent one of the main obstacles for operators involved in any field of translation because a dialect-for-dialect approach is generally dismissed because it presupposes not only ...
Flavia Cavaliere
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 The present study investigated the impact of Chinese dialects on McGurk effect using behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) methodologies. Specifically, intra-language comparison of McGurk effect was conducted between Mandarin and Cantonese ...
Juan Zhang +4 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how everyday linguicism and racism shape the academic and social experiences of international students in Hong Kong, focusing on the racialized subjectivity of a South Asian graduate student. Although research on international students has mainly focused on Western higher education, little attention has been paid to the ...
Pramod K. Sah
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Does Speaking Two Dialects in Daily Life Affect Executive Functions? An Event-Related Potential Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Whether using two languages enhances executive functions is a matter of debate. Here, we take a novel perspective to examine the bilingual advantage hypothesis by comparing bi-dialect with mono-dialect speakers' performance on a non-linguistic task that ...
Yan Jing Wu, Haoyun Zhang, Taomei Guo
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Repeated viewing is reportedly a common learning and pedagogical strategy among autonomous second language (L2) learners and language teachers. This experimental study examined the extent to which sequential captioning use facilitates the acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs) through repeated viewing under incidental learning conditions.
Kenneth W. Y. Li, Yaxin Ni
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