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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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LanguagesLate bilingual speakers immersed in a second language (L2) environment often experience the non-pathological attrition of their first language (L1), exhibiting selective and reversible changes in L1 processing and production. While attrition research has
Mattia Zingaretti +3 more
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Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the learner‐related factors of language dominance, encompassing language history, proficiency, use, and attitude, modulate congruency effects in multi‐word unit (MWU) processing among early bilinguals. Seventy Cantonese–Putonghua bilinguals completed lexical decision tasks measuring reaction time and accuracy for ...
Mingjia Cai, Yuan Liang
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines multilingual practices in research interviews, focusing on English lexical insertions in Chinese‐language research interviews with teachers of Chinese in Australian secondary schools, and treating these code‐switches as analytically meaningful rather than incidental.
Chengwen Yuan, Tianwei Zhang, Gary Bonar
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More Than Words: The Multimodal Practice of Repetition in English as a Lingua Franca Interactions
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of repetition as an interactional resource in video‐recorded English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactions, focusing on partial repeats produced in responses to wh‐questions. By adopting a multimodal conversation analytic approach, the analysis demonstrates that repetition in this context may either index the ...
Yujong Park
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Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour +2 more
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Communicative participation improves following motor speech program treatment in apraxia of speech [PDF]
, 2018 Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder characterized by increase in segment and intersegment durations (segmentation), equal stress over words and/or sentences, dysprosody, and speech sound distortions.
Schultz, Emily A
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Pragmatic functions, semantic classes, and lexical categories
Linguistics, 2010 Smith offers a critique of the theory of parts of speech in Croft (1991, 2001) inter alia. Smith tries to make a functionally-based universal-typological theory of parts of speech provide an answer to the problem of defining word classes and giving those classes the same names across languages ("noun"; "adjective"); this is not possible and not what I ...
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