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Empirical Pragmatics and Normativity Deficit: The Contribution of Universal Pragmatics to Foreign Language Education [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2014
In this article, on the basis of Habermas’ universal pragmatics, we have tried to indicate that empirical pragmatics in linguistics, suffers from ‘normativity deficit’ in the field of foreign language education. What we mean by ‘normativity deficit’, is the lack of normative resources required for judging the validity claims inherent in social ...
Nasser Taghavian, Yahya Ghaedi, Said Zarghami, Javad Gholami   +3 more
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THE U.S. FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEFICIT AND LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES [PDF]

Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2014
Within the framework of the U.S. foreign language deficit, the author addresses the case for Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), and more specifically, Business Language Studies (BLS), through an examination of the relevant literature and building on her own recent doctoral research study on foreign language as a global competency within the U.S ...
Kathleen Stein-Smith
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THE U.S. FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEFICIT, LANGUAGE ENTERPRISE, AND LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES [PDF]

Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2015
At present, there is a gap between the need for foreign language skills and their availability in the U.S. marketplace, resulting in a monolingual American in a multilingual global workplace. The Language Enterprise, a partnership of government, academia, and the private sector, can collaborate to effectively address the U.S.
Kathleen Stein-Smith
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Investigating Foreign Language Vocabulary Recognition in Children with ADHD and Autism with the Use of Eye Tracking Technology. [PDF]

Brain Sci
Background: Neurodivergent students, including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), frequently encounter challenges in several areas of foreign language (FL) learning, including vocabulary ...
Andreou G, Argatzopoulou A.
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Language skills of adults with dyslexia in English as a foreign language: proposal of a language spontaneity deficit hypothesis. [PDF]

Ann Dyslexia
Abstract Developmental dyslexia is characterized by reading and writing deficits that persist into adulthood. However, the mechanisms underlying these deficits appear to affect several language domains negatively. The present study aims to investigate how 18 native Spanish-speaking adults with developmental dyslexia perform different language
Pérez-Litago U, Rojas-Guerra JM, Martínez-García C, Suárez-Coalla P.   +3 more
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Positive Psychology can help overcome the pernicious native speaker ideology [PDF]

The European Educational Researcher, 2022
The world of applied linguistics and the profession of foreign language teaching needs to finally sweep away the notion of “Native Speaker” (NS) and the deficit perspective surrounding foreign language learners.
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Kazuya Saito
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Discriminatory Brain Processes of Native and Foreign Language in Children with and without Reading Difficulties

Brain Sciences, 2022
The association between impaired speech perception and reading difficulty has been well established in native language processing, as can be observed from brain activity. However, there has been scarce investigation of whether this association extends to
Najla Azaiez, Otto Loberg, Kaisa Lohvansuu, Sari Ylinen, Jarmo A. Hämäläinen, Paavo H. T. Leppänen   +5 more
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Understanding the centrality deficit: Insight from foreign language learners [PDF]

Memory & Cognition, 2010
This study replicated and extended a phenomenon in the text memory literature referred to as the centrality deficit Miller & Keenan (Annals of Dyslexia 59:99-113, 2009). It examined how reading in a foreign language (L2) affects one's text representation and ability to recall the most important information.
Amanda C, Miller, Janice M, Keenan
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Mind the Gap! Translation of Foreign Law Is Not What You Think

Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, 2021
While much legal research involves foreign law and much of foreign law exists in a foreign language, the issue of translation has attracted limited theoretical attention only.
Pierre Legrand
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Learned Helplessness of Secondary-School Students Learning English During Covid-19 Distance Education: a Research Report

Multidisciplinary Journal of School Education, 2023
Objectives of the research: This article presents a diagnosis of the learned helplessness experienced by secondary-school students learning English remotely during the 2021 lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Magdalena Kolber
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