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Developing and Validating an Online Diagnostic Test of L2 Pragmatic Competence: a Meaning-Oriented Model [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies
Research on second language (L2) pragmatics has predominantly focused on speech acts, leaving broader dimensions of pragmatic competence relatively unexplored. To address this gap, the present study developed and validated an Online Diagnostic Test of L2
Malihe Ketabdar, Mohammad Hashamdar, Gholamhassan Famil Khalili   +2 more
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Dreaming and Living the Globalized World Through IELTS: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Test‐Takers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study investigated the lived experiences of 10 IELTS test‐takers from Bangladesh. It explored their motivations for taking the test as well as their test experiences during and after the test. It demonstrates how the participants sought to position themselves in the imagined community through renegotiating their identities to climb ...
Tazin Ahmed, M. Obaidul Hamid, Xiaofan Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competent Approach in Teaching Russian Language

Russian Language Studies, 2011
The article describes competent approach in teaching Russian language. Special attention is paid to the linguistic competence, which involves linguistic component, sociolinguistic component, pragmatic component.
E V Orlova
doaj  

Enhancing Cultural Competence in Counselor Education through Sociolinguistic Awareness

Teaching and Supervision in Counseling
Language plays a central role in building a therapeutic working alliance. Language is essential in building trust, conveying empathy, and creating shared meaning between counselors and clients. Nevertheless, language can equally harm the working alliance
Jessica Haas , Diane D. Walsh , Marisa Marroquin   +2 more
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Generative AI, Linguistic Hierarchies and Unequal Access in Under‐Resourced Educational Contexts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing enthusiasm around generative AI (GenAI) as a transformative force in education, access to these technologies remains profoundly unequal. This qualitative study examines how educators and students in under‐resourced Chinese educational contexts experience unequal access to GenAI and interpret its consequences for language ...
Jinming Du, Qinghua Chen, Wei Wei
wiley   +1 more source

Translanguaging Trails: Tracing a Multilingual Writer's Repertoire‐in‐Motion Across Digital Platforms

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingual writers increasingly build meaning across digital platforms, yet translanguaging research has largely observed one space, on one platform, at a time. How meaning travels between those sites, and what that movement makes possible, remains difficult to see.
Julie Choi, Melissa Jufenna Slamet
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Variation and sociolinguistic competence in children’s talk at school

Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica
This study analyses how children switch between varieties of Italian during classroom interaction, based on video recordings from third-grade classes in four Lazio schools (Colleferro, Pomezia, Valmontone, Frosinone).
Elisa De Roberto, Sabrina Rizzello
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The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
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Language Dominance Shapes Protracted Development of Nonpersonal Clitics (Even) in Cases of Widespread Bilingualism

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas, Sílvia Perpiñán, Scott James Perry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source