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Positive and Negative Lexical Transfer in English Vocabulary Acquisition

open access: yesELOPE, 2021
The aim of the paper is to explore the appearance of positive and negative lexical transfer of plurilingual learners in English vocabulary acquisition.
Marina Jajić Novogradec
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Emotion-specific vocabulary is associated with preschoolers’ emotion knowledge and behavioral emotion regulation [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Language supports emotional development by enabling children to mentally represent conceptual emotion knowledge. Whereas previous research has linked emotion-specific vocabulary to emotion knowledge, its role in emotion regulation (ER) performance ...
Berit Streubel   +3 more
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Unsupervised vocabulary discovery using non-negative matrix factorization with graph regularization [PDF]

open access: yes2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011
In this paper, we present a model for unsupervised pattern discovery using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) with graph regularization. Though the regularization can be applied to many applications, we illustrate its effectiveness in a task of vocabulary acquisition in which a spoken utterance is represented by its histogram of the acoustic co ...
Meng Sun, Hugo Van Hamme
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Touched by your words: How touch-related vocabulary prompts charitable behavior by reducing the negative effect of disgust

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Getting help is often difficult for people who trigger disgust (e.g., homeless, sick, or disabled people) as well as the charities representing them because of low trust in these groups.
Olivia Petit
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Lexicographic description of vocabulary with a negative emotional evaluation in English-Russian dictionaries

open access: yesВестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология
The article analyzes the systematic lexicographic description of English vocabulary with negative emotional evaluation using methods of comparative analysis and continuous sampling.
T. L. Arlanova
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The Influence of Learner Factors on Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning: Negative Emotion and Working Memory

open access: yesThe Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 2015
한국 대학생들의 외국어 어휘 학습에 미치는 부적 정서(상태-특성 불안, 우울)와 작업기억의 영향을 조사하였다. 또한 이것이 외국어 어휘 학습 콘텐츠 개발에 함의하는 바가 무엇인지를 알아보았다. 이를 위하여 132명에게 상태-특성 불안, 우울, 그리고 네 종류의 작업기억 검사를 실시하였다.
Sungki Min, Yoonhyoung Lee
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No negative impact of word retraining on vocabulary use or clarity of communication in semantic dementia [PDF]

open access: yesNeuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2021
Word retraining techniques can improve picture naming of treated items in people with semantic dementia (SD). The utility of this, however, has been questioned given the propensity for under- and overgeneralisation errors in naming in SD. Few studies have investigated the occurrence of such errors.
Sharon A. Savage   +2 more
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Second Language Communication and Interference from L1 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Business, Communication and Technology, 2022
A vast body of available literature presents controversial perspectives on the role of L1 in learning and communicating an L2. The current exploratory qualitative study attempted to investigate the reported experiences of ten Afghan EFL learners ...
Ahmad Fawad Kakar, Kawita Sarwari
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Theory of Constructed Emotion: Emotional vocabulary and emotional intelligence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
The present work aims to study the relationship between perceived emotional intelligence, and general and emotional vocabulary. Undergraduate Psychology (N = 99) and Design (N = 44) students completed a number of tests about emotional intelligence (TMMS ...
Alejandra Daniela Calero   +3 more
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The Effects of Post-Encoding Emotion on Second Language Vocabulary Learning

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
There is evidence that emotion induced in the process of encoding impairs associative memory, yet the effect of post-encoding emotion on second language vocabulary learning remains largely unclear.
Yi Li, Xinpeng Wang
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