Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners
Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
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Perceiving word structure in time: cross-linguistic evidence from English and Spanish. [PDF]
Cohen C, Carlson MT, Dussias PE.
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Interpreting conjoined noun phrases and conjoined clauses: collective versus distributive preferences. [PDF]
Clifton C, Frazier L.
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Constructing the “Career Woman” in British Newspapers: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
ABSTRACT This article examines how the term “career woman” organized newspaper accounts of women’s work in Britain between 1985 and 2020. It draws on 283 articles from The Guardian, The Times, and the Daily Mail, using corpus‐informed sampling and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis.
Ghazal Vahidi +2 more
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Dependency-Distance Effects Are Not Evidence Against Grammatical Theories With Empty Categories: When Psycholinguistic Data Are Not Diagnostic. [PDF]
Fujita H.
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ABSTRACT This study examines multilingual practices in research interviews, focusing on English lexical insertions in Chinese‐language research interviews with teachers of Chinese in Australian secondary schools, and treating these code‐switches as analytically meaningful rather than incidental.
Chengwen Yuan, Tianwei Zhang, Gary Bonar
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Not that cloze: Sentence constraint is influenced by language and language dominance. [PDF]
Bautista A, Martin CD.
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)
ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick +2 more
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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The Development and Validation of the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test
ABSTRACT In response to the increasing need for effective Chinese vocabulary assessments, this study developed the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test (CVLT), a test designed for intermediate‐level Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/FL) learners, based on the vocabulary lists (levels 4–6) from the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for ...
Shiwei Qi, Ailan Fu
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