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Multiple Practice Success Scaffolds Long‐Term Test‐Enhanced Learning in Preschoolers

open access: yesChild Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retrieval practice is known to enhance long‐term memory retention, a phenomenon termed as retrieval practice effect. Two experiments (NWhite = 202), showed that the effect was present in preschool age (5–6 years) and had a boundary condition, namely, amount of initial learning.
Tamás Káldi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TEACHING SPANISH IN THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY: TOMÁS PINPIN'S GRAMMAR FOR TAGALOGS (1610)

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1610, a Tagalog printer named Tomás Pinpin published a Spanish grammar in Tagalog that was intended to help natives avoid errors and misunderstandings in their interactions with Spanish colonizers. This article attempts to clarify the book's genesis and to contextualize it within the global expansion of Spanish. Pinpin exemplifies a pattern
ALAN DURSTON
wiley   +1 more source

The distribution of trimoraic syllables in German and English as evidence for the phonological word [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the present article I discuss the distribution of trimoraic syllables in German and English. The reason I have chosen to analyze these two languages together is that the data in both languages are strikingly similar.
Hall, Tracy A.
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Motivation: Modeling the Predictive Role of L2 Pride in Informal Digital Learning of English

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of second language (L2) pride—an understudied affective factor—in shaping learners’ language learning motivation and involvement with informal digital learning of English (IDLE). Drawing on questionnaire data from 1388 Chinese university EFL students, the study employs structural equation modeling to examine ...
Minlin Minny Zou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co-phonology vs. Indexed constraint theory: a case study of Perak dialect partial reduplication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper presents co-phonologies and indexed constraint theory developed within Optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) to account for partial reduplication in Perak dialect of Malay.
Syed Jaafar, Sharifah Raihan
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Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Devising Yorùbá Terminology for Phonology Terms (from letter S to letter Z)

open access: yesYoruba Studies Review
In this final part of our report, which is part four (4) on the formulation Yorùbá phonology terms for their English counterparts, we discuss terms from letters S to Z of English phonology and give their Yorùbá equivalents.
Bankale Oyetayo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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