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A Processability Approach to Instructed Language Learning in Multilingual Contexts

open access: diamondEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2022
Existing research indicates a qualitative difference between Second Language Learning and Third Language Acquisition, and certain psycholinguistic and developmental aspects of multilingual learners merit investigation.
Forsyth, Helen Victoria
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Receptive multilingualism in the Swiss Army [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
In this paper a particular context where receptive multilingualism at work can be observed is discussed. The Swiss armed forces underwent a series of quite dramatic downsizing measures, which lead to a situation with increased amount of mixed groups and linguistically mixed situations regarding the first/native language of officers and the first/native
Berthele, Raphael, Wittlin, Gabriele
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Usability of technological tools to overcome language barriers in health care: a scoping review protocol [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Introduction In many healthcare contexts globally, where the languages of care providers and patients do not match, miscommunication or non-communication can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and subpar treatment outcomes.
Mike Mösko   +2 more
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Receptive vocabulary predicts multilinguals' recognition skills in adverse listening conditions

open access: hybridThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023
Adverse listening conditions are known to affect bilingual listeners' intelligibility scores more than those of monolingual listeners. To advance theoretical understanding of the mechanisms underpinning bilinguals' challenges in adverse listening conditions, vocabulary size and language entropy are compared as predictors in a sentence transcription ...
Lexia Suite   +2 more
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The early learning of interlingual correspondence rules in receptive multilingualism [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Bilingualism, 2016
Aims and objectives: This article investigates whether learners are able to quickly discover simple, systematic graphemic correspondence rules between their L1 and an unknown but closely related language in a setting of receptive multilingualism. Design: Eighty L1 German speakers participated in a translation task with written Dutch words, most of ...
J. Vanhove
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A hearer-based analysis of Turkish–Azerbaijani receptive multilingual communication

open access: greenInternational Journal of Bilingualism, 2017
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Receptive multilingualism (RM), a mode of multilingual communication in which speakers of different languages use their own native language to communicate and still understand each other, is considered to be a relatively under-investigated area in multilingual research.
Çiğdem Sağın-Şimşek   +1 more
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On abduction in receptive multilingualism. Evidence from cognate guessing tasks [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Linguistics Review, 2011
This article focuses on the question how multilinguals use their languages in order to guess the meaning of cognates in unlearnt but genealogically close languages. A series of studies is discussed whose aim is to tap into this process of interlingual inferencing.
Raphael Berthele
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