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What do verbal fluency tasks measure? Predictors of verbal fluency performance in older adults
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The study examined the contributions of verbal ability and executive control to verbal fluency performance in older adults (n=82). Verbal fluency was assessed in letter and category fluency tasks, and performance on these tasks was related to indicators ...
Zeshu eShao +6 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Writing is crucial in tertiary education, yet enhancing the complexity of academic writing presents significant challenges for second language (L2) learners. This study explores the potential of dialogue journal writing (DJW), an interactive and low‐stress classroom activity, to enhance writing complexity among novice L2 writers.
Barry Lee Reynolds +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Reflective teaching (RT) is influenced by a range of cognitive, pedagogical, and psycho‐affective factors in second/foreign language (L2) education. However, empirical evidence on the influence of psycho‐affective variables on teachers' reflectivity remains limited.
Lili Qin +2 more
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Journal of CognitionIndividuals vary substantially in their language skills. The Individual Differences in Language Skills Test Battery (IDLaS) is a tool to assess variability in (1) linguistic experience, (2) general cognitive skills implicated in language, including ...
Sandra Bethke +5 more
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No metaphorical timeline in gesture and cognition among Yucatec Mayas
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 In numerous languages, space provides a productive domain for the expression of time. This paper examines how time-to-space mapping is realized in Yucatec Maya. At the linguistic level, Yucatec Maya has numerous resources to express deictic time, whereas
Olivier eLe Guen +2 more
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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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15-month-old infants fast map words but not representational gestures of multimodal labels
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 This study investigated whether 15-month-old infants fast map multimodal labels, and, when given the choice of two modalities, whether they preferentially fast map one better than the other.
Daniel ePuccini +2 more
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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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, 1965 The first publication of Psycholinguistics in 1954 signalled a revolution in linguistic theory. Until that time, psycholinguistics, which developed severally from language-oriented research in psychology and from psychologically-oriented research with ...
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Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction
Royal Society Open ScienceRepair is a core building block of human communication, allowing us to address problems of understanding in conversation. Past research has uncovered the basic mechanisms by which interactants signal and solve such problems.
Paul Hömke +3 more
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