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AbstractIn recent years, research in multimodality has established the benefits of using multiple semiotic modes like image, sound, and text in digital second language (L2) communication. However, researchers have yet to investigate how L2 learners make meaning through embodied modes—or gestures and facial expressions.
Natalie Amgott, Julia A. Gorham
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Linguistic Interventions and Transformative Communicative Disruption [PDF]
What words we use, and what meanings they have, is important. We shouldn't use slurs; we should use 'rape' to include spousal rape (for centuries we didn’t); we should have a word which picks out the sexual harassment suffered by people in the workplace ...
Sterken, Rachel Katharine
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Metalinguistic reflections and discourse practices of Central Ukraine residents
The article dwells upon the metalinguistic reflections of the inhabitants of Central Ukraine, who use in their everyday communication Ukrainian and Russian languages, as well as Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech (URMS). Based on a closed-ended questionnaire, as well as open-ended semi-structured interviews (a research project of the University of ...
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Teacher cognition in language teaching: A review of research on what language teachers think, know, believe, and do [PDF]
This paper reviews a selection of research from the field of foreign and second language teaching into what is referred to here as teacher cognition – what teachers think, know, and believe and the relationships of these mental constructs to what ...
Borg, S.
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This text explores the controversial issue of grammar teaching in Language Arts. It considers the importance of grammar in schooling based on the learners’ reflection on language (i.e., their “metalinguistic activity”), and some of the features of such a
Xavier Fontich
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Decline and fall:a biological, developmental, and psycholinguistic account of deliberative language processes and ageing [PDF]
Background: This paper reviews the role of deliberative processes in language: those language processes that require central resources, in contrast to the automatic processes of lexicalisation, word retrieval, and parsing.
Harley, Trevor A. +2 more
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In order to transition from a monolingual foreign language course to a multilingual one, all the elements that are connected to students’ cognition should be taken into consideration in order to facilitate this shift.
Krimpogianni Katerina
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En este artículo se aborda la enseñanza del sintagma nominal (SN) en 4.º de ESO. En primer lugar, se pone de manifiesto la falta de progresión y de profundidad con que se plantea el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de unidades inferiores a la oración en
Laura Ros García
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Inclusion, Contrast and Polysemy in Dictionaries: The Relationship between Theory, Language Use and Lexicographic Practice [PDF]
This paper explores the lexicographic representation of a type of polysemy that arises when the meaning of one lexical item can either include or contrast with the meaning of another, as in the case of dog/bitch, shoe/boot, finger/thumb and animal/bird ...
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Towards a rationale for research into grammar teaching in schools [PDF]
This article hopes to bring new insights to the debate about the effect of grammar knowledge on language use, especially writing. It raises the question of the need to look more closely at the following three questions: (1) What is the aim of grammar ...
Camps, Anna, Fontich, Xavier
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