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Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

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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Improved Arabic Dialect Classification with Social Media Data [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015
Arabic dialect classification has been an important and challenging problem for Arabic language processing, especially for social media text analysis and machine translation. In this paper we propose an approach to improving Arabic dialect classification with semi-supervised learning: multiple classifiers are trained with weakly supervised, strongly ...
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IVB1-20180904_01 - Dialectal variation wordlist

Exploring dialectal variation between daya 'east' and laod 'west' with western Ibatan speakers.

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“Your English Sounds Almost British”: Everyday Linguicism and Racialized Subjectivity of an International Student in Hong Kong

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
wiley   +1 more source

IVB1-20180918_06 - Dialectal variation wordlist

Exploring dialectal variation between daya 'east' and laod 'west' with central/eastern Ibatan speakers.

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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Generalised Cross-Dialectal Arabic Question Answering Through Adaptive Code-Mixed Data Augmentation

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Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the many regional dialects differ substantially in vocabulary, morphology, and pragmatic usage. Most available annotated resources are in MSA, and zero-shot transfer from MSA to dialectal tasks suffers a large performance
Maha Jarallah Althobaiti
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IVB1-20180917_04 - Dialectal variation wordlist

Exploring dialectal variation between daya 'east' and laod 'west' with non-dominant speakers of Ibatan (living in the center).

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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 2: the scientific age and beyond

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
wiley   +1 more source

Construcciones con ‘ser focalizador’ en narcotelenovelas colombianas: de Antioquia al Valle del Cauca

Lexis, 2018
This paper offers new data on the dialectal variation of focalizing ser (‘to be’) constructions, through the study of two Colombian soap operas, whose action is located in the departments of Antioquia and Cauca’s valley. The comparative analysis of these
Elena Diez del Corral Areta
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