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Situating Grammar Instruction in the World Language Classroom: Four Content-Enriched Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The role of grammar instruction in promoting communicative competence continues to be a controversial issue for the world language classroom teacher. Second language acquisition research suggests that critical to sustained progress in language use is a ...
Hernández, Todd A.
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Native Language (L1) Transfer in Second Language Learning: From Form to Concept, the Implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The influence that a student’s first language (L1) can have on their acquisition of a second language (L2) has been frequently noted by language teachers (Swan, 1997; Jarvis, 2007) and documented in the literature for decades.
Austen, Samantha
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Fluid and Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Microgliopathy Colony‐Stimulating Factor‐1 Receptor‐Related Disorders

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aims to identify both fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers for CSF1R‐RD that can inform the optimal timing of treatment administration to maximize therapeutic benefit, while also providing sensitive quantitative measurements to monitor disease progression.
Tomasz Chmiela   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Authentic English Pronounciation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Most of the evidence from different research and literature indicates that learners beyond the age of puberty cannot acquire authentic pronunciation of a second language, because the articulation muscles have already lost their flexibility to be able to ...
Rashtchi, Mehrdad
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Age effects in first language attrition: speech perception by Korean-English bilinguals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article has been awarded Open Materials and Open Data badges. All materials and data are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/B2478 and at https://osf.io/G4C7Z.
Ahn, Sunyoung   +3 more
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Prediction of Myasthenia Gravis Worsening: A Machine Learning Algorithm Using Wearables and Patient‐Reported Measures

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare disorder characterized by fluctuating muscle weakness with potential life‐threatening crises. Timely interventions may be delayed by limited access to care and fragmented documentation. Our objective was to develop predictive algorithms for MG deterioration using multimodal telemedicine data ...
Maike Stein   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aproximaciones cognitivo-interaccionistas al aprendizaje de segundas lenguas mediante tareas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Task-based language learning constitutes one of the most popular proposals for second language pedagogy in the last fifteen years, and it is also a burgeoning research area within instructed second language acquisition.
Ortega Parra, Lourdes
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Effects of corrective feedback on EFL speaking task complexity in China’s university classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Corrective feedback (CF) and task complexity are two important pedagogical topics in second language acquisition research in recent years, but there is few research investigating effects of CF on speaking task complexity in China’s university classroom ...
Gao, Xing, Zhai, Keyu
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating culture in teaching English as a second language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study focuses on integrating culture in teaching English as a second language and it attempts to identify its importance in second language acquisition.
Muho, Dr. Anita, Roseni, Msc. Emilda
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