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Student Assessment of Oral Presentations in German as a Foreign Language
Students are usually afraid of making oral presentations in a foreign language, mainly when they are beginners, as it is the case in this work. The main idea was to study how language skills were evolving and if students were able to recognize that progress.
Gil-Salom, Daniela +1 more
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Correction: The impact of bilingualism and code-switching on executive function performance [PDF]
Basak Özkara +7 more
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The History of German as a Foreign Language in Europe [PDF]
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What is the interference in “verbal interference”?
Research on the interrelation between language and other components of cognition makes frequent use of verbal interference paradigms. In this, participants are engaged in a primary nonverbal task, while simultaneously repeating non-sense syllables from ...
Johannes Gerwien +2 more
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The Interplay of Language Awareness and Bilingual Writing Abilities in Heritage Language Speakers
This paper investigates how language awareness influences the writing abilities of bilingual heritage language speakers. The study includes 175 bilingual 9th and 10th graders with Italian, Greek, or Turkish as their L1 and German as an early L2.
Claudia Maria Riehl
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The cultural environment of metaphors: A study of German as a Second/Foreign Language [PDF]
This paper aims to empirically show that mediation of metaphor in a second language is more than a competence. Metaphor is an ecosystemic construct combining linguistic, cultural and semiotic symbols that may instigate different cognitive functions ...
Evelyn Vovou
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Transfer Phenomena in Bilingual Language Acquisition: The Case of Caused-Motion Constructions
Usage-based approaches suggest that children gradually build abstract syntactic patterns, called constructions, through processes of abstraction and schematization from the input they receive. Bilingual children have the challenge of learning two sets of
Nikolas Koch, Katharina Günther
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This paper describes the individual experiences with migration-related multilingualism of young refugees from Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan living in Germany.
Holzer Johanna
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Recent years have seen increased interest in code-mixing from a usage-based perspective. In usage-based approaches to monolingual language acquisition, a number of methods have been developed that allow for detecting patterns from usage data.
Nikolas Koch +2 more
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UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR GERMAN-SPEAKING STUDENTS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY [PDF]
Ukrainian as the state language of an independent European country is the subject of study in various parts of the world, including universities within individual research of Ukrainian studies (for example, Harvard University or the University of ...
Oksana V. Turkevych
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