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Investigating the Interlanguage Fossilization of English writing in Foreign Language Acquisition
Interlanguage fossilization represents a common phenomenon in Foreign/Second language acquisition. The current study attempted to investigate the students’ writing compositions to reveal if interlanguage fossilization occurred or not.
Ammar Abdul Fattah Habeeb
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ABSTRACT Focusing on the narratives of two Japanese undergraduate students, this article examines their everyday experiences of using and learning English, situated within entangled relations of power. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of discourse, the study reveals how multiple power/knowledge systems—such as native speakerism, prescriptivism ...
Aina Tanaka, Daisuke Kimura
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How L2 Learners Negotiate Meaning in GenAI‐Supported Creative Writing
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores how second language (L2) learners negotiate meaning and co‐construct knowledge with generative AI (GenAI) in a 12‐week multimodal creative writing project. Chinese middle school students (N = 75) created English picture books using a conversational GenAI agent supporting textual and text‐to‐image generation.
Zhihui Zhang +3 more
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L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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The aim of this paper is to highlight a problematic use of the Portuguese tense Pretérito Perfeito Composto in comparison to the use of English Present Perfect and Spanish Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto.
Sylwia Mikołajczak
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Interlanguage pragmatics in Turkish
This study aims to investigate interlanguage pragmatics in Turkish. For this purpose, a discourse completion questionnaire including four request situations wasgiven to 33 learners of Turkish at a university in Istanbul, Turkey as well as 45Turkish native speakers in two different programs at the same institution.
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Pre‐Service English Teachers' Peer Corrective Feedback Practices in L2 Pronunciation
ABSTRACT While research in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) emphasizes the positive impact of corrective feedback (CF) in improving L2 pronunciation skills, teachers often provide feedback inconsistently and focus primarily on segmental, word‐level issues.
Sinem Sonsaat‐Hegelheimer
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Processability theory and pedagogical progression in an Italian textbook
Most L2-learners are taught a language on the basis of a textbook. But are these textbooks arranged according to the learners’ needs? For the present study the grammatical structures and their progression in an Italian-language textbook were analysed ...
Katharina Zipser
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THE VARIABILITY OF INTERLANGUAGE USE
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