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Heliyon, 2023 The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages.
Regina Abreu +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The purpose of this study is to improve the English learning anxiety and learning effect for middle school students. From the perspective of educational psychology, the influence of vocalized reading practice on the English learning of students is ...
Hongyan Zhang, Xianghua Han
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Cognitive Research, 2022 Face masks affect the transmission of speech and obscure facial cues. Here, we examine how this reduction in acoustic and facial information affects a listener’s understanding of speech prosody. English sentence pairs that differed in their intonational (
Chloe Sinagra, Seth Wiener
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Investigating teachers’ use of literacy-infused science strategies: A mixed methods study
Discover Education, 2023 The 2019 science results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that 8th-grade students, especially economically challenged and emergent bilingual students, made few gains in science and reading achievement.
Allison M. Esparza +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionTraditional studies of the population called “heritage speakers” (HS) have treated this group as distinct from other bilingual populations, e.g., simultaneous or late bilinguals (LB), focusing on group differences in the competencies of the ...
Gita Martohardjono +6 more
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Languages, 2020 The present study deals with the perception (identification and discrimination) of an English phonemic contrast (/t∫/–/∫/, as in cheat and sheet) by speakers of two Mexican varieties of Spanish who are learning English as a foreign language.
Mariela López Velarde, Miquel Simonet
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Foreign language teaching: A study of teachers’ beliefs about effective teaching and learning methodologies [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2016 This study reveals the beliefs of 25 foreign language teachers about effective teaching and learning practices and also evaluates the impact of a teacher training workshop on their beliefs.
Farid Saydee
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Online Statistical Learning in Developmental Language Disorder
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Purpose: The vulnerability of statistical learning (SL) in developmental language disorder (DLD) has mainly been demonstrated with metacognitive offline measures which give little insight into the more specific nature and timing of learning.
Ágnes Lukács +5 more
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Role of Subtitles in L2 Acquisition and Comprehension: A Pilot Study of Hearing-Impaired Students
Languages, 2021 The purpose of this study was to investigate whether subtitles can facilitate language processing in English as a second language (L2) and, if so, which subtitles would be more beneficial for hard-of-hearing students with Norwegian as their first ...
Mila Vulchanova +1 more
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Shrinking Your Deictic System: How Far Can You Go?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Languages around the world differ in terms of the number of adnominal and pronominal demonstratives they require, as well as the factors that impact on their felicitous use.
Mila Vulchanova +3 more
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