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Phonological awareness in children: The perspective of preschool and primary school teachers [PDF]
Phonological awareness, an aspect of phonological ability, has been identified as a predictor of early reading. Since the acquisition of reading skills depends largely on the teachers who teach this skill and the relationship that is established with the
Perišić Snežana P., Minić Vesna Lj.
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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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Effect of different second languages as media of instruction on phonological awareness [PDF]
This study investigated the effect of different media of instruction on the development of phonological awareness of the first language. Subjects were 187 elementary school students from grades 1 to 3.
Yuen, Chung-yee, Esther, 袁頌貽
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Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary
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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Vocabulary is important for some, but not all reading skills [PDF]
Although there is evidence for a close link between the development of oral vocabulary and reading comprehension, less clear is whether oral vocabulary skills relate to the development of word-level reading skills.
Bishop, Dorothy V.M. +3 more
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Engagement and Interaction for Second Language Learning
Abstract Engagement is an appealing concept because researchers and practitioners can easily agree on its importance for second language (L2) learning. Consequently, there has been a rapid research increase and engagement will be a hot topic in the coming decade.
Masatoshi Sato
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This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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