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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim +4 more
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Multilinguales, 2019 The text deals with the fragmentation of the French exponent nominal syntagma (SN) in the context of generative syntax. The SN consists of two mandatory elements that are the determinant (Det) and the noun (N).
Mohamed Camara
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP
, 2008 The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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The Syntax of the Setswana Noun Phrase
, 2015 This paper describes the structure of the Noun Phrase in Setswana, and specifically addresses the following questions: a) In what ways can the Setswana noun be modified?
Letsholo, R, Matlhaku, K
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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Genitive quantifiers in Japanese as reverse partitives
, 2004 Quantificational determiners in Japanese can be marked with genitive case. Current analyses (for example by Watanabe, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, to appear) treat the genetive case marker in these cases as semantically vacuous, but we show ...
Kazuko Yatsushiro +3 more
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Noun phrase recognition with tree patterns [PDF]
, 2004 This paper offers a method for the noun phrase recognition of Hungarian natural language texts based on machine learning methods. The approach learns noun phrase tree patterns described by regular expressions from an annotated corpus.
Hócza András
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined how task design, task motivation, and learner engagement influenced L2 vocabulary learning by comparing learner‐generated content (LGC) and teacher‐generated content (TGC) in a classroom setting. One hundred sixty‐three Japanese high school students from five intact classes were assigned to LGC, TGC, or a test‐only control ...
Gaia Oikawa, Takumi Uchihara
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An Analysis of Subordinate Clauses in Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1995 This paper is concerned with the status of subordinate clauses and it will offer empirical support for Abney's (1987) claim that in the structure of the noun phrase the determiner is a head of the noun phrase.
Ayşe Pamir Dietrich
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