Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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Supporting Pathways into College and Careers: The Case of Adult Education ESL in Community Colleges
Abstract Research has increasingly focused on the importance of college preparation and career and technical education (CTE) for multilingual learners (MLs), many of them classified as “English Learners,” in K‐12 schools. Less attention, however, has been paid to the collegiate and professional aspirations of another significant population of MLs in ...
Kylie A. Kenner +2 more
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Curvilinear Relationship Between Confrontation Naming and Monologic Narrative Discourse in People With Aphasia: A Partial Replication With Expanded Analysis of Discourse. [PDF]
Carroll-Duhigg C +4 more
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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes
Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim +4 more
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Structural language profiles in children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental language disorder: a systematic review. [PDF]
Doghadze I, Gagoshidze T.
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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Linguistic diversity and theory in psychological science. [PDF]
Coventry KR.
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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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Medical and health science students' interpretation of miscommunication in simulated scenarios: the role of language, gender, and perceived professional authority. [PDF]
Alzahrani M, Hadhram Y.
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Implementing Argument‐Based Validity in Second Language Research on Individual Differences
Abstract Quantitative meta‐syntheses focusing on the psychometric properties of measurement tools in second and foreign language (L2) individual differences (ID) research have drawn scholars' attention to the quality of data collection instruments (Plonsky & Derrick, 2016; Sudina, 2023).
Katalin Piniel, Ekaterina Sudina
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