(Re)Defining language pedagogy activity: A sociomaterialist perspective
Abstract Language pedagogy activity (LPA) is central to the functioning of language classrooms worldwide, and this article (re)defines LPA. While prevailing applied linguistics conceptualizations of “activity” are often theoretical and anthropocentric, our definition of LPA is empirically supported and foregrounds material agency.
Anne Marie Guerrettaz +3 more
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THE DIALECT DICTIONARY AT SCHOOL: TO HELP LITERARY RUSSIAN
The degradation of the Russian literary language, which is noted by many members of today's Russian intelligentsia, is without doubt connected with the abundance of slang in colloquial speech and in mass media texts, as well as with little attention paid
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There may be regular guys but there are no regular native speakers: lexis and native-speaker-like competence. [PDF]
An analysis of different dimensions of meaning available to a native speaker (though with some variation across any given population of native speakers) in making judgments about English usage.
Durant, Alan
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Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness
Abstract As calls intensify for language education to provide authentic exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity—an essential condition for preparing learners to navigate an interconnected world—concerns about the declining status of additional language study reveal an important challenge.
Koen Van Gorp
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THE FUNCTIONS OF PHATIC EXPRESSIONS IN TRADITIONAL SELLING AND BUYING [PDF]
Selling and buying is a social praxis commonly found in daily activities. Traditional selling and buying is generally conducted in local language or dialect.
Hadiati , Chusni
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A High Quality Text-To-Speech System Composed of Multiple Neural Networks
While neural networks have been employed to handle several different text-to-speech tasks, ours is the first system to use neural networks throughout, for both linguistic and acoustic processing.
Corrigan, Gerald +5 more
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Multiword sequences do not predict speaking proficiency in dialogue: A pair‐level analysis
Abstract This study revisited the commonly held view that the use of multiword sequences (MWSs) is a reliable predictor of L2 speaking proficiency in monologue, by extending the investigation from monologic to dialogic speaking contexts. We accessed dialogic performance data from 127 test‐takers of the Test of English for Educational Purposes assessed ...
Takumi Uchihara +3 more
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
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LEXICON USING OF SUNDANESE LANGUAGE LEVEL IN “PUPUH DANGDANGGULA” [PDF]
This study analyzes the morphology process of Sundanese language in “Pupuh Dangdanggula”, which focuses on lexicon, and which in Sundanese there are language levels of each society level.The aim of this study is to conserve the Sundanese culture of ...
Mahdi, Sutiono, Sari, Titania
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