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L’approccio cognitivista e la coniazione di parole nuove in italiano — alcune riflessioni teoriche
Neophilologica, 2019 The paper investigates the cognitive approach to word formation in present-day Italian within a larger overview of lexical creativity and users’ competence. Various accounts of lexical creativity are reviewed.
Anna Godzich
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013 The notion of scientific paradigm has taken some time to be accepted by linguists, and eventoday the problem of boundaries of coexisting nowadays linguistic paradigms remains debatable.
E. M. Pozdnyakova
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Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese [PDF]
, 2010 This paper is one argument for a theory of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there are no grammatical relations beyond semantic roles, and no lexical relation-changing rules.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Modelling, Detection And Exploitation Of Lexical Functions For Analysis. [PDF]
, 2006 Lexical functions (LF) model relations between terms in the lexicon. These relations can be knowledge about the world (Napoleon was an emperor) or knowledge about the language (‘destiny’ is synonym of ‘fate’)
Lafourcade, Mathieu +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.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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Exploring lexical patterns in text : lexical cohesion analysis with WordNet [PDF]
, 2005 We present a system for the linguistic exploration and analysis of lexical cohesion in English texts. Using an electronic thesaurus-like resource, Princeton WordNet, and the Brown Corpus of English, we have implemented a process of annotating text with ...
Fankhauser, Peter, Teich, Elke
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.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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LEGAL ENGLISH: LEXICAL COMPETENCE AND CURRICULUM DESIGN
Armenian Folia AnglistikaThis paper examines both linguistic and pedagogical aspects of legal vocabulary instruction in English for Law courses. The research examines legal language through its formal, precise, and culturally specific nature by studying vocabulary ...
Anahit Voskanyan
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
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