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Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody +5 more
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Abstract Amid growing interest in multilingual pedagogies, translanguaging has increasingly been positioned as a response to monolingual teaching norms. Yet empirical accounts of what pedagogical translanguaging looks like in everyday classrooms—particularly in teaching English to young learners—remain limited.
Sue Garton, Serdar Tekin
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Demonstrating lexical competence in language use
Lexical competence is that aspect of communicative competence that deals with knowledge of lexical or vocabulary items and their meaning and the ability to use them appropriately. It is generally well known that without grammatical accuracy, an utterance
Mohamed Ali, Haja Mohideen
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Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
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Idiomatic Expressions and Their Impact on Lexical Competence
Idiomatic expressions are integral to the richness and depth of language, offering nuanced meanings that extend beyond literal word definitions. This article explores the significant impact of idiomatic expressions on lexical competence, arguing that mastery of idioms enhances vocabulary breadth, cultural literacy, and the ability to communicate with ...
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Abstract Integrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into digital multimodal composing (DMC) offers promising avenues for young Foreign Language (FL) learners' learning experiences. Image‐based GenAI tools enable students to generate personalized images from written prompts to help convey meanings, and DMC combines text, images, and sound to
Alex Lap‐kwan Lam
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Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK
ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
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EXPLORING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN ACADEMIC TEXT TRANSLATION BY PROFESSIONALS
This study aimed to explore linguistic competence in academic text translation by professionals, focusing on their awareness, dominant linguistic competence and strategies, and the impact of Machine Translation (MT) and AI-driven software on their ...
Dwi Kurnia Surya Ningrum +2 more
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Linguistic Markers of Destructive Leadership: An Exploratory Cross‐domain Study
Abstract This article examines how destructive leadership in politics and business is reflected in distinctive patterns of language use. Drawing on Pennebaker's psycholinguistic theory and his Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) analytical framework, we report two studies.
Eugene Sadler‐Smith +4 more
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Evaluating lexical resources for a semantic tagger [PDF]
Semantic lexical resources play an important part in both linguistic study and natural language engineering. In Lancaster, a large semantic lexical resource has been built over the past 14 years, which provides a knowledge base for the USAS semantic ...
Rayson, P. +7 more
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