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Style labels in monolingual English learner’s dictionaries [PDF]

, 2003
The study researches the stylistic information offered in English dictionaries. The following four British dictionaries are compared: Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (COBUILD) Dictionary of Contemporary English (DCE) Oxford Advanced Learners´ Dictionary of Current English (OALD) Cambridge International Dictionary of English (CIDE) Language learners ...
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EFL Learners’ Receptive Vocabulary Size and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Estimates Across Levels

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) is widely used as a reference for language teaching and learning. However, providing vocabulary size (VS) estimates is beyond the CEFR's original aim. Previous research has also shown that learners’ receptive VS is related to overall proficiency and to the four language skills ...
Ferran Gesa
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Dictionaries in foreign language learning [PDF]

Zbornik radova (Univerzitet u Kragujevcu. Pedagoški fakultet u Užicu), 2017
Although many things concerning foreign language dictionaries have already been said and discussed in scientific papers, we can still add some facts that seem important at this moment.
Ljubičić Gordana M.
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“It Can't be Translated Into a Conventional English Phrase”: Crafting Academic Identities Through Translingual Writing

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative multiple case study explores multilingual postgraduate students’ academic identities through writing at an EMI university in Hong Kong, with a focus on how they gain legitimacy in knowledge‑making with their multilingual repertoires. Grounded in a poststructuralist understanding of identities as fluid and negotiated, the study
Siqi Song, Ken Lau
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Finetuning Pre‐Trained Language Models for Automatic Assessment of English‐Chinese Interpreting

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen growing interest in leveraging pre‐trained language models (PLMs) for automatic assessment of spoken‐language performance. Contributing to this emerging line of work, the present study offers the first attempt to finetune two PLMs, GTE‐multilingual and mmBERT, for assessing English‐Chinese interpreting, using over 1700 ...
Zhaokun Jiang, Chao Han
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‘Whose Language Counts?’ Linguistic Racism, Gen‐AI, and Policy Silence in Polish and Romanian AI Governance

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As generative artificial intelligence spreads through European education, its development continues to be shaped overwhelmingly by English and other dominant languages. This article examines how national AI and digital education policies in Poland and Romania discursively construct a linguistically homogeneous ‘ideal learner,’ rendering Roma ...
Anna Becker, Florin D. Salajan
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Words in Sheep’s Clothing

ELOPE, 2006
The paper focuses on various types of dictionary words, i.e. infrequent and rather uncommon words often listed in comprehensive monolingual English dictionaries but virtually nonexistent in actual usage.
Dušan Gabrovšek
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Popma's Monolingual Dictionary of Latin Synonyms

Lexikos, 2022
This report presents the results of our project of digitizing a dictionary of Latin synonyms which was popular for three centuries from XVII to XIX; describes its history and the contributions of authors and editors, explains its pedagogical value for modern students of classical languages; and discusses technical questions of coding the transcript and
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Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
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Bild im Wörterbuch. Zu visuellen Darstellungsformen in einem Lernerwörterbuch. Illustrations in a dictionary. Visual forms of entry presentation in a learner‘s dictionary.

Glottodidactica, 2016
In this article we will subject visual forms of entry presentation found in monolingual learner's dictionaries to critical contrastive analysis. The characteristics of dictionaries under discussion, especially those addressed to foreign users, make them
Hanna Kaczmarek
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