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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Preservice elementary science teachers' beliefs and practices influence the kinds of adaptations they make to curriculum materials and the extent to which they are able to enact justice‐oriented science lessons. Through this qualitative study, we explored the beliefs and practices of five focal preservice teachers through an analysis of their ...
Jessica Bautista, Elizabeth A. Davis
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Formulaic sequences in the written production of L2 learners of English
Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013 En este artículo se investiga el uso y la función de secuencias de fórmulas escritas y su relación con la competencia lingüística (Inglés como segunda lengua). Es un estudio transversal en el que se recogen los datos de 138 alumnos de 5 º y 6 º cursos de
Mar Gutiérrez-Colón +1 more
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The Effect of Congruency and Frequency of Exposures on the Learning of L2 Binomials
Languages, 2023 Although extensive research has been carried out on opaque formulaic language where the meaning is not the sum of the individual words (i.e., idioms and many collocations), it is still not clear how cross-language congruency and frequency of exposure ...
Abdulaziz Altamimi, Kathy Conklin
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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“Me likey!” A new (old) argument structure or a partially fixed expression with the verb like?
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2022 This paper explores the current use of the verb like in sequences such as “me likey”. This new use is practically limited to modern variant spellings (likey, likee, like-y and likie) and resembles the original (and now obsolete) impersonal structure of ...
Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras
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Chengyu in Chinese Language Teaching: A preliminary analysis of Italian learners’ data [PDF]
, 2017 Chengyu, also known as Chinese four-character idioms, are a type of traditional Chinese idiom, mostly consisting of four characters. They commonly derive from classic Chinese literary sources, including those of the three great philosophical and ...
Conti, Sergio
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Utilizing lexical data from a Web-derived corpus to expand productive collocation knowledge [PDF]
, 2009 Collocations are of great importance for second language learners, and a learner’s knowledge of them plays a key role in producing language fluently (Nation, 2001: 323).
Franken, Margaret +2 more
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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