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Anchoring Effects in Judging Grammaticality of Sentences
, 1992 This study was undertaken to examine the anchoring effect in judgments of the grammaticality of sentences. Thirty-three students judged the target sentences involving an intermediate level of judged grammaticality.
Hiroshi Nagata
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
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A Quantification Model of Grammaticality
, 2008 (to appear in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer)International audienceThe traditional binary notion of grammaticality is more and more often replaced by intermediate levels of acceptability, also called \em gradience.
Blache, Philippe, Prost, Jean-Philippe
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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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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
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Research on the distributed practice effect, that is the impact of different intervals between learning sessions, has investigated both intentional and incidental learning of second language vocabulary and grammar targets. This research is complex and has produced conflicting findings: whereas robust effects have been shown for intentional ...
Shona Whyte +3 more
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Disambiguating quantity judgements: mass/count and extra-grammatical cues
Experiments in Linguistic MeaningComparative quantity judgements are a useful probe into the semantics of the mass/count distinction, where count nouns usually trigger cardinal comparisons (more dogs), and mass nouns trigger non-cardinal measurement (more rice). However, exceptions like ‘object’ mass nouns (furniture) and ‘mixed’ comparatives (more gold than diamonds) complicate this ...
Smeman, Sven +3 more
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Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
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Timed/Untimed Grammaticality Judgement Test and Implicit/Explicit Knowledge (Special Issue Dedicated to Professor OKADA, Akiko) [PDF]
Grammaticality judgement tests (GJTs) have been frequently used in second language (L2) acquisition research. However, questions arise as to the construct validity of GJTs as it is not always clear whether implicit or explicit knowledge is being measured.
島田, 勝正 +4 more
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Exploring Distribution‐of‐Practice Effects on L2 Grammar Learning Among Older Adults
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the effects of practice distribution among older adult learners of L2 English, an understudied population in both second language acquisition and distributed practice research. Additionally, it considers the effects of proficiency and age.
Raquel Serrano, Anna Gawlikowicz
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