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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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Communications BiologyLanguage is supported by a distributed network of brain regions with a particular contribution from the left hemisphere. A multi-level understanding of this network requires studying its genetic architecture.
Jitse S. Amelink +10 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism — from infants to adults, and from Sapir's foundational studies to 21st century product naming.
Gwilym eLockwood, Mark eDingemanse
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Repeated viewing is reportedly a common learning and pedagogical strategy among autonomous second language (L2) learners and language teachers. This experimental study examined the extent to which sequential captioning use facilitates the acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs) through repeated viewing under incidental learning conditions.
Kenneth W. Y. Li, Yaxin Ni
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Unaddressed participants’ gaze in multi-person interaction: optimizing recipiency
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 One of the most intriguing aspects of human communication is its turn-taking system. It requires the ability to process on-going turns at talk while planning the next, and to launch this next turn without considerable overlap or delay.
Judith eHoller, Kobin H. Kendrick
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody +5 more
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East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2015 PREFACE In today’s rapidly changing society, psycholinguistics tends to be more proactive, since it does not simply respond to new realities of life by designing models or theories. Currently psycholinguistics has full potential not only to survive or
Serhii Zasiekin
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Can You Hear What’s Coming? Failure to Replicate ERP Evidence for Phonological Prediction
Neurobiology of Language, 2022 Prediction-based theories of language comprehension assume that listeners predict both the meaning and phonological form of likely upcoming words. In alleged event-related potential (ERP) demonstrations of phonological prediction, prediction-mismatching ...
Victoria R. Poulton, Mante S. Nieuwland
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Exploring Distribution‐of‐Practice Effects on L2 Grammar Learning Among Older Adults
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the effects of practice distribution among older adult learners of L2 English, an understudied population in both second language acquisition and distributed practice research. Additionally, it considers the effects of proficiency and age.
Raquel Serrano, Anna Gawlikowicz
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Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The core niche for language use is in verbal interaction, involving the rapid exchange of turns at talking. This paper reviews the extensive literature about this system, adding new statistical analyses of behavioural data where they have been missing ...
Stephen C. Levinson, Francisco eTorreira
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