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ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) often present cognitive rigidity, impaired decision‐making, and difficulties processing emotions, all of which can impede engagement in treatment. The marked rise in paediatric hospitalisations for AN during the COVID‐19 pandemic highlights the urgent need for brief, targeted interventions in
Dario Marin +4 more
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M is for Apple: Biliteracy for Pre‐Service Teachers
Abstract This qualitative study explores the dynamics between pre‐service and cooperating teachers, emphasizing the need to shift traditional power structures. It highlights the value of pre‐service teachers' biliteracy knowledge and the importance of reflective practice.
Jennifer Arcila
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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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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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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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Phonological Processes of 2-4 Years Old Farsi Children
Objective: Phonological processes are the changes which children make in pronunciation while uttering words. The present study aimed at investigating phonological processes of 2-4 year old Farsi-speaking children.
Tahereh Sima-Shirazi +3 more
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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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The road to language learning is not entirely iconic: Iconicity, neighborhood density, and frequency facilitate sign language acquisition [PDF]
Iconic mappings between words and their meanings are far more prevalent than once estimated, and seem to support children’s acquisition of new words, spoken or signed.
Caselli, Naomi, Pyers, Jennie
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