The Effects of a Combined Output and Input-Oriented Approach in Teaching Reported Speech [PDF]
The participants of the study are 74 first year students of the English philology who were divided into four groups: 3 treatment groups and a control one.
Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Anna
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Does order of instruction matter? A language program intervention for preterite‐imperfect learning
Abstract Research on L2 acquisition of the Spanish perfective and imperfective past has suggested that order‐of‐instruction (preterite before imperfect) may significantly contribute to learners' difficulty with mastering the imperfect. We sought to empirically test the effect of order‐of‐instruction by implementing a program‐wide intervention in a ...
Claudia Sánchez‐Gutiérrez +3 more
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Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment
Abstract Research on second language (L2) pronunciation self‐assessment reports a general misalignment between self‐ and other‐assessment. This has been attributed to the object of self‐assessment, the self‐assessment task, the measures to which self‐assessment is compared, and speakers’ characteristics.
Cesar Teló he/him +3 more
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The article offers insights into teaching-related challenges posed by Advanced English methods as applied to adult Spanish learners. The analyisis highlights the importance of cognitive approaches adapted to classroom milieus and ...
D. G., Eugenia
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Investigating interlanguage in present perfect acquisition through translation
The paper uses the blind translation into English of a youth reader originally written in Portuguese by two Brazilian college students with different proficiency levels – one upper-intermediate, who has never lived in an English-speaking country though ...
Vicente Mendes
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Errores gramaticales comunes en alumnos croatas de español como lengua extranjera en la producción escrita [PDF]
El presente artículo pretende servir como un catálogo de los errores gramaticales más frecuentes que cometen los alumnos croatas cuando estudian español como lengua extranjera.
Kočman, Ana
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280 Birds with One Stone: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia using Character-level Classification [PDF]
We propose a simple, yet effective, approach towards inducing multilingual taxonomies from Wikipedia. Given an English taxonomy, our approach leverages the interlanguage links of Wikipedia followed by character-level classifiers to induce high-precision,
Aberer, Karl +3 more
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The Development of Chemical Language Usage by “Non-traditional” Students: the Interlanguage Analogy
Students commonly find specialist scientific language problematic. This study investigated developments in chemical language usage by six non-traditional students over the course of 1 to 4 years.
Simon Rees, Vanessa Kind, D. Newton
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Abstract A handful of second language (L2) studies have explored bidirectional pragmatic transfer: forward pragmatic transfer—the influence of learners' first language (L1) on their L2—and reverse pragmatic transfer—the impact of learners' L2 on their L1.
Ying Zhang (she/her)
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Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: Factors Influencing Interlanguage Transfer
In the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the role of transfer has been theorized and studied to account for the influence of the native language on an interlanguage.
Tammy Wang
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