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Examining the Lower‐Order Structure of Openness/Intellect Using Traditional and Extended Bass‐Ackwards Methods

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In this study, the lower‐order structure of Openness/Intellect is explored using Goldberg's “bass‐ackward” hierarchical factor analysis approach, including Forbes' extension to this method. Background Research utilizing the Big Five has tended to focus on higher‐order domains, as opposed to lower‐order facets.
Yana Ryakhovskaya, Luke D. Smillie
wiley   +1 more source

Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing the Speaker's Face Enhances Second Language Shadowing: Neural and Behavioral Evidence

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated how facial cues influence second language (L2) shadowing among 42 Japanese learners of English. Participants completed four conditions that varied by task type (listening vs. shadowing) and visual input (face vs. mosaic).
Hyeonjeong Jeong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Second Language Interactional Competence in Roleplay: Comparing Generative Artificial Intelligence and Human Interlocutors

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as an alternative to human interlocutors for assessing interactional competence (IC) in a second language (L2). Thirty L2 English speakers completed a 6‐item roleplay task designed to elicit refusals of requests, invitations, and offers, interacting with both a ...
Yunwen Su, Xi Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Lag Effects in L2 Phonetic Training: Longer Intersession Intervals Compensate for Auditory Individual Differences

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In cognitive psychology, longer intersession intervals are thought to enhance long‐term retention (i.e., lag effects). Recently, scholars have begun to test the generalizability of the lag effect to L2 vocabulary and grammar acquisition. Following their step, the present study not only replicated the lag effect but also provided a more fine ...
Xiang Li, Kazuya Saito‐van Poeteren
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
wiley   +1 more source

Prompt Sensitivity in AI Writing: A Methodological Caution for Corpus‐Based Analysis of AI‐Generated Language

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent corpus‐based studies suggest generative AI systems such as ChatGPT can approximate human patterns of interpersonal metadiscourse in argumentative writing. These conclusions are typically based on AI‐generated texts produced using a single prompt, despite AI output being highly sensitive to even minor changes in prompt specification ...
Peter Crosthwaite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic assessment of text summarization methods for biomedical literature from frequency methods to language models. [PDF]

open access: yesiScience
Baumgärtel F   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Deliberative Wave and Neo‐Managerial Conception of Mini‐Publics

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This Research Note analyses how the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) has promoted mini‐publics, before focusing on a specific collaboration between the OECD and the Directorate‐General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission in the case of the mini‐public Besaya Delibera.
Jessy Bailly
wiley   +1 more source

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