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Language intensive exposure in EFL curriculum:Attitudes towards the unlock textbook series at Birzeit University as a case study

open access: yesCogent Education, 2023
Language-intensive exposure and immersion can be regarded as key factors in developing proficient language learners. In the context of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), the current research was conducted to compare two modes of teaching ...
Rania Qassrawi   +3 more
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Experiential Measures Can Be Used as a Proxy for Language Dominance in Bilingual Language Acquisition Research

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Language dominance is a multidimensional construct comprising several distinct yet interrelated components, including language proficiency, exposure and use. The exact relation between these components remains unclear.
Sharon Unsworth   +2 more
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Learning on the Field: L2 Turkish Vowel Production by L1 American English-Speaking NGOs in Turkey

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This study adopts the Speech Learning Model to investigate the first language (L1) influence as well as the effects of the length of residence and second language (L2) exposure on American English-speaking learners of Turkish in their productions of ...
Keryn de Jonge, Olga Maxwell, Helen Zhao
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The Effect of Jordanian Arabic upon the Production of English Language Among Academic College Professors across Jordan [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb wa Al-ʿulūm Al-Insāniyyaẗ - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Qanāẗ Al-Siwaīs, 2020
This study focuses on the effect of the first language (Jordanian Arabic) on L2 (English language) production. It aims to find out whether Jordanian professors whose first language is Arabic speak L2 (English) with a native–like accent or with the accent
تماضر سليمان الشمايله
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Exposure Bias In Language Modeling

open access: yesCoRR, 2019
Exposure bias describes the phenomenon that a language model trained under the teacher forcing schema may perform poorly at the inference stage when its predictions are conditioned on its previous predictions unseen from the training corpus. Recently, several generative adversarial networks (GANs) and reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been ...
Yifan Xu 0009   +5 more
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Exposure in an Increasingly Bilingual World: Native Language Exposure Therapy With a Non-Language Matched Therapist [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Case Studies, 2019
Language is an essential part of psychotherapy and experts in cultural competence encourage the consideration of language as an element in cultural adaptation to therapy. Providing clients with services in their native language is associated with lower dropout and better outcomes.
Daniel Szoke   +2 more
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Prenatal chemical exposures and child language development [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Communication Disorders, 2015
The goal of this review is to summarize the evidence that prenatal and/or early postnatal exposure to certain chemicals, both manmade (insulating materials, flame retardants, pesticides) and naturally occurring (e.g., lead, mercury), may be associated with delays or impairments in language development. We focus primarily on a subset of more extensively
Kelsey L C, Dzwilewski, Susan L, Schantz
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Dual language exposure and early bilingual development [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Child Language, 2011
ABSTRACTThe extant literature includes conflicting assertions regarding the influence of bilingualism on the rate of language development. The present study compared the language development of equivalently high-SES samples of bilingually and monolingually developing children from 1 ; 10 to 2 ; 6.
Erika, Hoff   +5 more
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Examining the impact of amount of exposure on L2 development with CLIL and non-CLIL teenage students [PDF]

open access: yesSintagma, 2014
Since the 1990's there has been an increase of foreign language exposure in primary and secondary schools. One of the methodologies used is called CLIL, which has been developed since some years ago in different educational levels, with a good result in ...
Gemma Saladrigues, Àngels Llanes
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Examining the Collocational Knowledge of Libyan Arabic-Speaking Learners of English in Different Learning Environments: Classroom Learning vs. Naturalistic Learning

open access: yesLanguages, 2018
The recognition that collocation is an important, yet challenging, variable in second language development has attracted extensive research into how to enhance collocation learning.
Carima Awaj
doaj   +1 more source

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