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Introduction to the Special Issue: National Standards – Local Varieties
Critical Multilingualism Studies, 2020 The goal of this special issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies “National Standards – Local Varieties: A Cross-Linguistic Discussion on Regional Variation in L2 Studies” is to incite a conversation on how topics such as linguistic norms and variation,
Julia Ruck, Naomi Shafer
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Verb-Mediated Prediction in Bilingual Toddlers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Prediction is an important mechanism for efficient language processing. It has been shown that as a part of sentence processing, both children and adults predict nouns based on semantically constraining verbs.
Ane Theimann +3 more
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Extrapolating Multilingual Understanding Models as Multilingual Generators
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023 Multilingual understanding models (or encoder-based), pre-trained via masked language modeling, have achieved promising results on many language understanding tasks (e.g., mBERT). However, these non-autoregressive (NAR) models still struggle to generate high-quality texts compared with autoregressive (AR) models.
Bohong Wu +4 more
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Journal of Media Literacy EducationThe digital transformation creates new demands on reading and writing. This entails the expansion of the goals of content literacy to explicitly include the development of digital reading and writing skills.
Cedric Lawida, Ina-Maria Maahs
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New Empirical Approaches to Grammatical Variation and Change
Languages, 2021 Research on grammatical variation and change has traditionally been based on diachronic and synchronic corpus analysis, but the growing importance of experimental approaches to the study of language has led many researchers to combine corpus study with ...
Sina Bosch +3 more
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The influence of peripheral emotions on inhibitory control among children
Acta Psychologica, 2022 In this study, we investigated the cognitive-emotional interplay by measuring the effects of executive competition (Pessoa, 2013), i.e., how inhibitory control is influenced when emotional information is encountered. Sixty-three children (8 to 9 years of
Sophia Czapka +2 more
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Multilingualism and the Periphery [PDF]
, 2013 This volume examines the complexities of the processes and practices of multilingualism in a wide range of economic, cultural, political and physical peripheral sites and spaces (tourism, education, indigenous and minority language rights and politics, gender relations, marketing, airports) in different geographic locations (Austria, Canada, Corsica ...
Pietikäinen, Sari, Kelly-Holmes, Helen
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LanguagesWe carried out four timed judgement experiments investigating whether bilingual speakers differ in their sensitivity to different kinds of filler–gap dependency violation in L1 German and L2 English.
Aleksandra Trifonova, Claudia Felser
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Teachers’ Beliefs About Multilingualism at Universities in North Macedonia
SEEU Review, 2023 The purpose of this study was to explore teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism at universities in North Macedonia. Multilingualism as a concept is related to an individual’s ability to speak three or more languages.
Xhaferi Brikena +2 more
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Attitudes and beliefs on multilingualism in education : voices from Sweden
, 2023 Sweden is often commended for the inclusion of home languages in the formal education system: both mother tongue instruction (where a pupil’s home language is taught as an optional school subject) and study guidance (where a pupil is given content ...
Paulsrud, BethAnne, +7 more
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