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Bulgarian University Students’ Learning Style Preferences in ESL Classrooms

open access: yesJournal of Language and Education, 2018
Students’ attitudes towards learning and the perception and beliefs behind them may have a profound influence on learning behaviour and learning outcomes. Teachers’ awareness of such needs and preferences will result in more realistic and useful teaching
Flora Komlosi
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A comparison of factors affecting Estonian EFL learners’ idiom comprehension

open access: yesEesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2019
The article discusses a study examining the facilitating effect that analysability (i.e. the degree of transparency) and similarity between English and Estonian equivalents have on Estonian EFL learners’ idiom comprehension. A group of (pre)adolescent L1
Rita Anita Forssten
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Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Object Clitic Structure: A Case of L3 Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesLanguages, 2017
This study examines the role of previously known language in L3 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) object expression acquisition. It investigates the claims of the main models of L3 transfer, the cumulative enhancement model (CEM) (Flynn et al.
Alan Parma
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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
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Language Transfer: Dominant Channels in Perception [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2021
The paper covers a range of issues related to the specifics of Russian language mastering by Indian students studying in English and Russian. The research is based on an integrative methodological platform that combines approaches to multilingualism ...
Yana V. Datiyeva, Tatiana Yu. Tameryan
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EFFECTS OF CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCES ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF SEMANTIC TRANSFER IN WRITTEN PRODUCTION

open access: yesRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2009
This article concentrates on the impact that cross-linguistic influences have on second language acquisition. It investigates the importance of the learner's native language (L1) in written production of a second language (L2), particularly the use of L1
María del Mar Ramón Torrijos
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The Interference of Indonesian on English Second Language Writing

open access: yesJournal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2020
Language transfer means the application of knowledge and understanding of a source language on a target language. Dissimilarities between the source language and the target language could result in a negative transfer.
Topan Rahmatul Iman
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Magnitude of antenatal care service uptake and associated factors among pregnant women: analysis of the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2021
Objective Antenatal and postnatal cares are crucial for the survival and well-being of both the mother and the child. WHO recommends a minimum of four antenatal care (ANC) visits during a pregnancy.
Setegn Muche Fenta   +2 more
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Soft Language Prompts for Language Transfer

open access: yesProceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Cross-lingual knowledge transfer, especially between high- and low-resource languages, remains challenging in natural language processing (NLP). This study offers insights for improving cross-lingual NLP applications through the combination of parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods.
Ivan Vykopal   +2 more
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Transfer and Universal Grammar in Unaccusative Constructions Errors

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2008
Common errors are examined in subject expletive pronouns use with unaccusative predicates in the written production of Spanish high-intermediate adult students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in an institutional setting. What these errors have in
Marciano Escutia
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