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Investing in Game‐Based Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE): A Chinese‐Speaking Gaming Community

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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Building a Non‐Farmhouse: Labor Migration, Construction, and the Decline of Peasant Agriculture in Rural Peru

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how residential architecture engages with lifestyles and livelihoods, permitting some activities while foreclosing others. Focusing on houses built by Teodora, her father, and her son in the Peruvian peasant community of Allpachico, I show how experiences of migration paid for and informed the designs of, and materials used
Susan Vincent
wiley   +1 more source

Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
wiley   +1 more source

Elements of social representation theory incollaborative tagging systems

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This article discusses the information representation process based on the Moscovici's Social Representation Theory and domain analysis in Information Science.
Patricia Zeni Marchiori, Andre Luiz Appel, Eduardo Michellotti Bettoni, Denise Fukumi Tsunoda, Frank Coelho de Alcântara   +4 more
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Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her), Helen Zhao (she/her), Jonathon Lum (he/him)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sign language for all? Profile and retention of students in a beginner sign language program

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 216-233, Spring 2025.
Abstract Around the globe, beginner sign language programs have seen surging enrolments in recent years. Yet relatively few learners progress to higher‐level sign language study. In this article, we explore factors shaping retention and attrition among a cohort of 70 beginner Australian Sign Language (Auslan) students studying in a vocational education
Louisa Willoughby, Adam Schembri, Jess Kruk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Bulletin of the South Ural State University series Linguistics [PDF]

Мухин Михаил Юрьевич, доктор филологических наук, директор департамента лингвистики, профессор кафедры фундаментальной и прикладной лингвистики и текстоведения, Уральский федеральный университет им. первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина (Екатеринбург), mu-hi@ya.ru Лозовская Алина Ильясовна, магистрант кафедры фундаментальной и прикладной лингвистики ...
Skripichnikova, N.S., Stavtseva, I.V., Dymova, K.E.   +2 more
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Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
wiley   +1 more source