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Teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in Indonesia has its own complexity due to the multilingual situation and the broadly different levels of English proficiency.
Nihta V. F. Liando +3 more
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In heritage language acquisition studies, it has been observed that heritage speakers may experience a shift of language dominance from the heritage language to the majority language due to input quantity and quality factors.
Laia Arnaus Gil, Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar
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This study aims at describing and analyzing one of the possibilities of materialization of the cognitive process of comparison: the assimilative comparative construction, especially when presenting the connectors tipo and igual, in Brazilian Portuguese ...
Heloise Vasconcellos Gomes Thompson
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Detecting causality from online psychiatric texts using inter-sentential language patterns
Background Online psychiatric texts are natural language texts expressing depressive problems, published by Internet users via community-based web services such as web forums, message boards and blogs. Understanding the cause-effect relations embedded in
Wu Jheng-Long +2 more
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Turkish literature has a rich text corpus in the genre of the Parables of the Prophets (Qisas Al-Anbiya). Among this corpus, Kissa-i Musa is distinguished from the other texts as the only separate prose tale known today of the Prophet Moses. In this work,
Kübra Malta
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Exploring the Tagalog-English Code-Switching Types Used for Mathematics Classroom Instruction
This study aimed to examine the types of Tagalog-English code-switching used in mathematics classroom discourse. Four purposively selected tertiary level math teachers in a college situated in a rural area in the Philippines were part of the study. Using
Karizza P. Bravo-Sotelo
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Polish-English Code-Switching in the Language of Polish Facebook Users
Social networking services, such as Facebook, are important channels of communication both for monolingual users and for those having various degrees of proficiency in L2, with the latter deploying expression both from L1 and L2.
Daria Pańka
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Code-Switching, Language Emotionality and Identity in Junot Díaz’s “Invierno”
Code-switching (CS) is a linguistic activity typical of bilingual speakers, and thus, a central feature characterising Latino/a literature. The present study reads Junot Díaz’s “Invierno,” a short story from This Is How You Lose Her (2012), with a focus ...
María Jesús Sánchez +1 more
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Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language
The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language held at the ZAS in December, 2006. The conference, organized by the project Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference, brought together leading researchers dealing
Bittner, Dagmar, Gagarina, Natalia
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Integrating pragmatic information in grammar: An analysis of intersentential ellipsis
In this paper we present a proposal to integrate pragmatic information, both from the preceding discourse and the extra-linguistic context, in the grammar. We provide an analysis of elliptical fragments according to how they are anchored to the context and the kind of resolution they require.
Núria Bertomeu, Valia Kordoni
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