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Rethinking Second Language Anxiety: Looking Beyond the Classic View of the Anxiety → Achievement Relationship

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A large and emerging body of evidence has challenged the classic view that L2 anxiety is a causal factor in L2 learning achievement and that when anxiety is mitigated, L2 proficiency improves. This classic “anxiety → achievement” view has three major problems. First, studies frequently draw causal conclusions from cross‐sectional associations,
Abdullah A. Alamer, Richard L. Sparks, Philip S. Dale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Referential Indeterminacy and De Re Thoughts

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referential indeterminacy may seem to leave little room for de re or singular thoughts about ordinary objects. I argue that this impression is misleading. We can direct our thoughts at particular objects, even though there is no fact of the matter as to which objects are referred to by the singular terms purporting to stand for them.
Bahram Assadian
wiley   +1 more source

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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Pulling Down the Hierarchy

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
wiley   +1 more source

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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Language Games About Language Games: Wittgensteinian Hermeneutics Between Imaginative Participation and Analysis

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough and Philosophical Grammar, it is shown that, from a hermeneutic perspective, the Middle Wittgenstein, develops a fluid model of understanding which supposes a fixable meaning of any given text. In this context, to understand a text (intransitively) means to (imaginatively) play the language games ...
Sebastian Abel
wiley   +1 more source

Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
wiley   +1 more source

On Kant's Definition of Analogy

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Prolegomena, Kant offers his official definition of analogy in terms of the perfect similarity of the relations holding for completely dissimilar pairs. Although interpreters neglect to reconstruct Kant's views on similarity, they often cite the Prolegomena definition and take it to characterise analogy as the identity of two relations.
Roberto Leone Zellini
wiley   +1 more source

Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi, Maki Kubota, Marina Chrisikopoulou, Valantis Fyndanis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating language learning through metalinguistic beliefs: a theoretical exploration informed by multilingual narratives

Frontiers in Language Sciences
This article reconceptualizes metalinguistic beliefs in multilingual learning by examining how they are constructed and mobilized in learners' narratives.
Constanza Quinteros Ortiz
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