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Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A Look at Diachronic Phonological Processes in Inthii Oy

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020
This study examines phonological processes from a diachronic view in the understudied West Bahnaric language Oy, Inthii village variety, Attapeu Province, Lao PDR.
Jennifer L. Daniell
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Intervening to alleviate word-finding difficulties in children: case series data and a computational modelling foundation [PDF]

, 2015
We evaluated a simple computational model of productive vocabulary acquisition, applied to simulating two case studies of 7-year-old children with developmental word-finding difficulties across four core behavioural tasks.
Hughes, L., Best, W, Kapikian, A., Kapikian, A, Fedor, Anna, Masterson, Jackie, Fern-Pollak, L, Thomas, Michael, Thomas, MSC, Fedor, A., Roncoli, S, Fern-Pollak, L., Thomas, Michael S.C., Fern Pollak, Liory, Best, A., Masterson, J., Thomas, M.S.C., Best, W., Fedor, A, Masterson, J, Roncoli, S., Hughes, L   +21 more
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
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, Steve Morris, Theodore Mills   +2 more
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Issues of intelligibility of Nigerian English in the classroom [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015
Communicative competence in English has been a desired goal in international settings ever since the Empire existed. However, a match, or better yet an overlap, between the expected competence and the actual performance has not always been attained or a
Gabriela Anidora Brozbă
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Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour, Mostafa Pourhaji, Michael Sadeghi   +2 more
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Exploring English Language Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Usage When Speaking

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vocabulary forms a fundamental component of speaking ability, as it enables speakers to convey meaning accurately, fluently, and effectively. Although the relationship between vocabulary and speaking has been investigated to some extent, gaps remain in understanding the link between learners’ vocabulary knowledge and their speaking proficiency,
Junyan Guo, Martin East
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Phonological Process Patterns in Children with Phonological Disorder: A Psycholinguistic Perspective

Studies in Linguistics and Language Education
This study examines the phonological processes produced by two seven-year-old children with phonological disorder, interpreted from a psycholinguistic perspective.
Sri Meiti Anggraini Ahaya, Usman Pakaya
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Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon, Mandy Simons, Seth Wiener   +2 more
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Age Variation in First-Language Acquisition and Phonological Development: Discrimination and Repetition of Nonwords in a Group of Italian Preschoolers

Languages
This contribution provides new data on Italian first language acquisition and phonological development in preschool children. In total, 104 3- to 6;4-year-old typically developing Italian children were tested with two novel nonword tasks tackling the ...
Vincenzo Galatà, Gaia Lucarini, Maria Palmieri, Claudio Zmarich   +3 more
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