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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
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Drawing the Profile of Students of English as Dictionary Users
Fifty freshmen students of English took part in a study in order to establish their profile as dictionary users. The respondents completed a questionnaire regarding the types of dictionaries they used, the frequency of use, the main reasons for ...
Chaker HAMDI
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State-of-the-art on monolingual lexicography for Greece (EL)
The authors report on a recent survey on monolingual dictionaries available on the Greek market. General dictionaries outnumber spelling and educational ones and enjoy a prestigious status.
Stella Markantonatou, Voula Giouli
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ABSTRACT Reading engagement is a key factor in children's literacy development, yet it often receives limited attention in classroom practice. Linguistically diverse learners may face added challenges when formal reading education and assessment focus only on the language(s) of schooling.
Charlie Robinson‐Jones +7 more
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O artigo descreve a estrutura e as formas de acesso características dos dicionários eletrônicos do tipo on-line disponíveis ao aprendiz de língua inglesa, comparando o conteúdo e os recursos de dois dicionários monolíngues e dois dicionários bilíngües ...
Isabel Cristina Tedesco Selistre
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A Data‐Driven Approach to the Issue of ‘Catching Up With Monolinguals’
ABSTRACT Background Multilingual children in monolingual education systems are generally assessed against monolingual norms, raising questions about identifying genuine language support needs versus expected developmental trajectories. Aims This study aimed to identify: (1) the amount of cumulative exposure to the societal language (SL) beyond which ...
Cécile De Cat +5 more
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Thoughts and Views on the Compilation of Monolingual Dictionaries in South Africa
: Developing and documenting the eleven official languages of South Africa on all levels of communication in order to fulfil all the roles and uses characteristic of truly official languages is a great challenge.
N.C.P Golele
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Early Emergence of Cultural Differences in Audiovisual Speech Perception
ABSTRACT Integrating auditory and visual cues is a hallmark of human speech perception, yet adults from East Asian backgrounds show less reliance on visual speech than their Western counterparts. The origins of this cultural difference, however, remain unknown.
Linlin Yan +7 more
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PURE OR HYBRID? THE DEVELOPMENT OF MIXED DICTIONARY GENRES
This paper explores 'hybrid' genres of dictionaries and other reference works. Against the tradition of general dictionaries becoming ever more specialised, there has also been a growing trend of mixing two or more 'pure' dictionary types for achieving ...
Reinhard R. K. Hartmann
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ABSTRACT Background Writing from multiple sources is a cognitively demanding task that requires students to integrate reading, planning, and composition processes. While prior research has demonstrated the importance of self‐regulated learning (SRL) and linguistic features in predicting writing performance, most studies have focused on university ...
Halima Alnashiri +10 more
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