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The influence of foreign language and a word-color unitization strategy on the age-related associative deficit [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionOlder adults typically show a disproportionate decline in associative, relative to item, memory. Here, we investigated the role of stimulus presentation in a foreign language, as well as the impact of a unitization instruction for binding ...
Ricarda Endemann +7 more
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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.
Nasser Taghavian +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 ...
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,
Kathleen Stein-Smith
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023 In previous research, we detected that children and adolescents who were diagnosed with ADHD showed deficits in both complex auditory processing of musical stimuli and in musical performance when compared to controls. In this study, we were interested in whether we could detect similar or distinct findings when we use foreign speech perception tasks ...
Markus Christiner +2 more
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Annals of DyslexiaAbstract 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
Cristina Martínez-García +2 more
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Investigating Foreign Language Vocabulary Recognition in Children with ADHD and Autism with the Use of Eye Tracking Technology [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: 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 ...
Georgia Andreou, Ariadni Argatzopoulou
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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 +5 more
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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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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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