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Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim, Tove Larsson, Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang, Pia Sundqvist   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interface vulnerability in bilingual grammars?

Isogloss
Bilingual children typically produce more redundant pronominal subjects than monolingual children in null subject languages like Spanish in contact with non-null subject languages like English (Montrul & Sánchez-Walker, 2013; Montrul, 2004; Paradis ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
doaj   +1 more source

Longitudinal Tracking of Persistence in Other‐Repair Practices in an Audio‐Mediated English Private Tutoring Setting

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Private tutoring—or shadow education—has received ample scholarly attention due to increasing demand from parents for reasons of social mobility in ESL/EFL contexts. Referred to as English private tutoring (EPT) for language learning purposes, this type of non‐formal education shares certain features of formal education like content and ...
Semih Ekin, Ali Anaç, Muhammet Öcel
wiley   +1 more source

The Hidden Hallyu Emerged: Exploring the Key Motives of Reading Adapted K‐Webtoons of South Korea

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate why global fans read Korean webtoons (K‐webtoons) and how their motivations vary across different genres. Previous studies have approached the Korean Wave (Hallyu) from a national perspective, emphasizing its influence and primarily discussing K‐pop and K‐drama.
Hoseok Gwak, Ga‐rog Han, Taehyung Kim, Minseok Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Passive Imperatives in Spanish

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
In this paper I propose that Spanish passive imperatives with the passive reflexive pronoun SE have all the semantic and formal properties of imperative sentences in spite of the fact that their subject cannot be coreferent with the addressee, since it ...
Cristina Sánchez López
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Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarises the findings of a research project at a British university exploring autistic students studying modern foreign languages (MFL). The project investigates the experiences, motivations, learning strategies and preferences of autistic MFL learners in a Higher Education context to better understand how MFL classroom pedagogy ...
Caroline de Saint‐Seine, Ekaterina Chown, James Youdale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A cross-dialectic comparison of first person singular subject pronoun expression in Southern Arizona and Southeast Texas

, 2023
This study provides a cross-dialectic comparison of first person singular subject pronoun expression in the Spanish varieties of two US-Mexico borderland communities, Southern Arizona and Southeast Texas. Using data collected from sociolinguistic interviews of 32 Spanish/English bilingual speakers, this analysis further explores the impact that trans ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

Language Variation and Perception: Subject Pronominal Expression in Native and Non-Native Mandarin Chinese

Languages
Subject pronoun expression (SPE) has been widely studied as a sociolinguistic variable across a range of languages. However, previous research has primarily focused on production, leaving the perception of subject pronouns largely unexplored.
Xinye Zhang, Aini Li, Xiaoshi Li
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source