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Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour, Mostafa Pourhaji, Michael Sadeghi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Interactional Competence in a Japanese University EFL Speaking Context

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ability to interact is an integral aspect of speaking proficiency. Therefore, methods of assessing interaction need to be incorporated into second language (L2) speaking tests. The main purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to quantify interactional competence (IC) in a Japanese university EFL (English as a foreign language ...
Paul Garside
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Item Reviewing in and Through Interaction: What It Takes to Problematize and Revise a Language Test Item

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study brings an interactional perspective to item reviewing (IR) as one of the critical language test construction stages by using conversation analysis. Drawing on video recordings of IR sessions in an English preparatory school at the tertiary level, it examines how EFL teachers problematize and revise syllabus‐based language test items
Hümeyra Can, Çiler Hatipoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

It's Not What You Say, But How (Fast) You Say It: Interpersonal Power and Adaptability at Work

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adaptability is frequently discussed in terms of adjusting to changing environments or situations; however, the capacity to adapt one's social interaction behavior, known as behavioral adaptability (BA), in response to different partners may be equally critical for success in social, organizational, and leadership contexts.
Phebe Driebergen, Marianne Schmid Mast
wiley   +1 more source

Vowel Reduction In The English Of Educated Edo (nigerian) English Speakers

The Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society
Educated Edo English (EEE) is a sub-group of Nigerian English (NigE), one of the new Englishes. Phonological studies on NigE rhythm have been on the major ethnic (Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) and a few minority group (Isoko, Urhobo, Eka, Ibibio) while studies ...
Julianah Ajoke Akindele
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Animal fluency in people with Parkinson's disease: Item‐based performance before and after deep brain stimulation surgery

Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract People with Parkinson disease (PD) after surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS) often decline in animal fluency due to impairments in executive functions and/or language. Item‐based measures of animal fluency may shed light on the specific nature of this decline, and into the strategies used when ...
Adrià Rofes, Nikki Janssen, Janine Rook, Eva de Ronde, R. Saman Vinke, Rianne A. J. Esselink, Annelien A. Duits   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How language-specific and cross-linguistic factors affect speech rhythm

Estudios de Fonética Experimental
This study examined the durational aspects of speech rhythm in Bengali (L1) and English spoken by educated Bengali advanced English learners (L2) to represent the effect of language-specific and cross-linguistic factors on speech rhythm.
Nafiseh Taghva, Shouvik Chaudhuri
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Double dissociation between conduction aphasia and conduction agraphia supports a ventro‐dorsal partition of the left arcuate fasciculus

Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract We identified in two awake surgery cases a postoperative double dissociation between phonological and graphemic output buffer deficits. Using lesion‐symptom mapping from ischaemic mini‐strokes and preoperative tractography, we demonstrated that the phonological (resp. graphemic) disorder fitted with ventral (resp.
Valéry Mandonnet, Isabelle Poisson, Francine Chassoux, Bertrand Devaux, Sébastien Froelich, Emmanuel Mandonnet   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
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Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
wiley   +1 more source