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The impact of CLIL on English language competence in a monolingual context: a longitudinal perspective

Language Learning Journal, 2020
This study examines the impact of CLIL on the English language competence achieved by students in primary and secondary education in the monolingual autonomous community of Extremadura (Spain) and extends investigation to a year after the end of the ...
Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo
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A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers

Cognitive development, 2020
Play is an important tool for children’s social interactions and cognitive skills. The current study examines the links between pretend play and language in 119 Turkish preschoolers at two time points tested one-year apart (Time 1 Mage = 45.82 months and
Erim Kızıldere   +3 more
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Exploring the impacts of digital storytelling on English as a foreign language learners’ speaking competence

Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
Previous research has addressed the effects of digital storytelling (DST) on verbal English competence and demonstrated that students engage more and learn more effectively.
J. Fu, Shih-Hsien Yang, Hui-Chin Yeh
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Language teachers’ identity in teaching intercultural communicative competence

Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This paper reports on our inquiry into how language teachers’ identities relate to their efforts to teach intercultural communicative competence. In the study, we collected data through in-depth interviews with and observations of 16 Chinese language ...
Y. Gong, Chun Lai, X. Gao
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Autonomy support predicts language mindsets: Implications for developing communicative competence and willingness to communicate in EFL classrooms

, 2021
Growth language mindsets , the beliefs that language-learning ability can be cultivated through effort, are argued as a motivational resource that guides learners to focus on improvement and learning processes.
Nourollah Zarrinabadi   +2 more
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Language competence in mathematics

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1978
This paper asks whether particular problems exist in mathematics for students who have to learn their discipline in a language which is not their mother tongue. One possible problem area is considered—the relationship between performance in mathematics and the understanding of mathematical text.
Martin Reed, Harry Wainman
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Unveiling Language Competence Neurons: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Model Interpretability

International Conference on Computational Linguistics
As large language models (LLMs) advance in their linguistic capacity, understanding how they capture aspects of language competence remains a significant challenge. This study therefore employs psycholinguistic paradigms in English, which are well-suited
Xufeng Duan   +3 more
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Perspective-taking and language competence as predictors of language accommodation by adolescents from monolingual and bilingual households

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
In this study, we examined how growing up in a bilingual (Swedish-Finnish) versus monolingual (Swedish only) household in a bilingual region of Finland affected adolescents’ language competence and language-related perspective-taking, and how these ...
Jessica Gasiorek   +2 more
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Building Language Competence in First Language Acquisition

European Review, 2008
Most accounts of child language acquisition use as analytic tools adult-like syntactic categories and grammars with little concern for whether they are psychologically real for young children. However, when approached from a cognitive and functional theoretical perspective, recent research has demonstrated that children do not operate initially with ...
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Breaking the vicious cycle of language anxiety: Growth language mindsets improve lower-competence ESL students’ intercultural interactions

, 2020
For migrant students enrolled in a postsecondary institution where the language of instruction is not their native language, experiencing anxiety using a new language can manifest in their daily social interactions, and lead them to avoid using the ...
N. Lou, K. Noels
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