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Introduction to Regimenting Postcolonial Multilingualism: Discourses of Speaker/Listener Ideological Positioning

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introduction explores ways of understanding multilingualism in relation to coloniality, with insights from ethnographic case studies in former colonies across several continents. We argue that this theme series advances theorization of the subtleties of power inherent in multilingual discourse with a focus on listening subject agency as ...
Kathe Managan, Jacqueline H. E. Messing
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L2 Learners' Acquisition of English Nominal Clauses: Effects of Textual Enhancement, Metalinguistic Explanation, and Self-Regulation [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2018
This study aimed to investigate the impact of textual enhancement and metalinguistic explanation as focus-on-form tasks tending to encourage the acquisition of nominal clauses (NCs) in English.
Hossein Younesi, Zia Tajeddin
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What Is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback? An Approximate Replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016)

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This replication study examines feedback timing in vocational language learners and verifies the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate over delayed feedback found in the original study (Li, Zhu, & Ellis, 2016) is due to practice opportunities in immediate feedback.
Shaofeng Li, Jie Li, Jiancheng Qian
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Juicios y actitudes lingüísticas en el Perú y su reflejo en las novelas de Jaime Bayly

Lexis, 2008
Jaime Bayly’s novels show the literary treatment of linguistic conflict that characterizes Peruvian Spanish. Following Coseriu’s ideas about speakers as linguists and Giles’ psychosocial theories about accommodation, in the present study we analyze the ...
Florencio del Barrio
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Developing explicit and implicit L2 knowledge with Duolingo’s input-based features: Case studies of L2 Spanish learning

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
In this single-case study with a quasi-experimental design, we set out to examine the role of two input-based features of the language learning app Duolingo on learners’ development of implicit and explicit second language (L2) knowledge. We investigated
Anthony Brandy, Phil Hiver
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Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas, Leone Buckle, Holly Branigan   +2 more
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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Metalinguistic awareness in primary schoolers in multilingual partial immersion education

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThis paper reports selective findings from original research into the effects of early multilingual partial immersion education on children's metalinguistic awareness and performance in English.Procedure and methodThe study we present was ...
Barbara Hofer, Barbara Hofer, Ulrike Jessner, Ulrike Jessner, Ulrike Jessner, Claudia Traxl   +5 more
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Ressenya: El tractament integrat de les llengües

Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 2011
El Tractament Integrat de les Llengües (Graó) includes seven articles from academics and researchers which have an integrated approach of the areas of language as an object of debate and study. The volume is organised around the following thematic areas:
Anna Maria Méndez i Navarro
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Redescribing early pragmatics

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Developmental work on ostensive communication calls for reconsidering existing theoretical accounts within a comprehensive framework of early pragmatics and its development. In this paper, we propose a new perspective on the ontogeny and development of ostensive communication as underpinned by a process of knowledge and representational redescription ...
Edoardo Vaccargiu, Diana Mazzarella
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