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Spanish‐Speaking Secondary Students Reading and Spelling in English as a Foreign Language
ABSTRACT Proficiency in English reading and spelling is essential, as many professional environments require both spoken and written skills. Literacy development in English as a foreign language poses challenges for learners whose first language is transparent, such as Spanish, due to the complexity and inconsistency of English orthography.
Paz Suárez‐Coalla +3 more
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A Mouse Tracking Study of the Perception of English Affricate Onsets in Native Mandarin Learners. [PDF]
Wang Y, Bundgaard-Nielsen RL.
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Effective faking of verbal deception detection with target‐aligned adversarial attacks
Abstract Background Deception detection through analysing language is a promising avenue using both human judgements and automated machine learning judgements. For both forms of credibility assessment, automated adversarial attacks that rewrite deceptive statements to appear truthful pose a serious threat.
Bennett Kleinberg +2 more
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Social support detection from social media texts. [PDF]
Ahani Z +6 more
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ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang +3 more
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Unaccusativity and Grammatical Aspect: A Cross-Modal Lexical Priming Study. [PDF]
Čordalija N +4 more
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Noncanonical word order sentences elicited stronger activation than their canonical counterparts in the left inferior frontal gyrus and posterior superior temporal sulcus, regardless of whether arguments or adjuncts were scrambled, suggesting unified neural mechanisms for word‐order permutation that involve additional hierarchical structure building ...
Daiki Asami +3 more
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The Impact of Scaffolding on Academic Achievement in Undergraduate Emergency Language Courses. [PDF]
Zhu A, Ye JH.
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Do Linking‐Expression Substitutions Mitigate Deterministic Interpretations of Genetic Information?
ABSTRACT It is a common concern that broader audiences interpret scientific information about the genetic correlates and causes of complex human traits in an overly deterministic manner. A frequently proposed way to address this issue is to carefully select the linking expressions used to describe gene–trait relationships when communicating genetic ...
Riin Kõiv
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Validating explicit rating tasks for measuring pronunciation biases: A case study of ING variation. [PDF]
Li A, Tamminga M.
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