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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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Constructions binomiales dans le Pro P. Quinctio de Cicéron [PDF]
Studii de LingvisticaDelivered in 81 B.C., Pro P. Quinctio, Cicero’s earliest preserved speech, is a civil plea in which the Roman orator defends his client, Publius Quinctius, against the dishonest maneuvers of his accuser, Sextus Naevius.
Carmen Fenechiu
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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
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Simulating the Noun-Verb Asymmetry in the Productivity of Children’s Speech [PDF]
, 2007 Several authors propose that children may acquire syntactic categories on the basis of co-occurrence statistics of words in the input. This paper assesses the relative merits of two such accounts by assessing the type and amount of productive language ...
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined the effects of repeated viewing and reading fluency on incidental second language vocabulary acquisition through captioned video exposure. A total of 149 Japanese EFL learners watched a short animation with or without captions, varying in the number of repetitions (once, twice, or three times).
Satsuki Kurokawa, Takumi Uchihara
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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MORPHOLOGICAL OVERLAPPINGS OF SYSTEMS IN GERMAN AND CROATIAN LANGUAGE [PDF]
Hum, 2011 Morphological differences between languages, here concretely between German and Croatian, appear because of differences in systems and therefore it is extremely important to examine genetic-linguistic any typological characteristics of their systems ...
Marinko Pandžić
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Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Cumulative testing is known to improve vocabulary learning by integrating both new and previously introduced words in weekly quizzes. While evidence for its benefits is promising, prior research has primarily focused on the written mode of vocabulary, with target words studied, practiced, and tested in the visual mode only.
Ryo Maie, Takumi Uchihara
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