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ABSTRACT Translating local research into English as a lingua franca (ELF) connects local scholarship with global readership, but this process remains constrained by language barriers. Large language models (LLMs) offer advanced accessible solutions, but their responsible integration into academic translation requires a deeper understanding of the ...
Yueyue Huang, Yao Yao, Dechao Li
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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
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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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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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The Beginning of an Important Change in Polish Phonotactics
A change has been observed in the pronunciation of sonorants in Polish in positions where their occurrence does not conform with the sonority principle.
Irena Sawicka, Tatiana Zinowjewa
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‘reportless places’: Janet Malcolm and Collage
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Natalie Ferris
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Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia +3 more
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Abstract Whereas L2 fluency research has focused on monologic speech, interactional fluency (IF), particularly during turn transitions, remains underexplored. This study investigates how turn‐managing gestures (TMGs) contribute to L2 IF, drawing on 60 dyadic interactions from Taiwanese learners in the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of ...
Yen‐Liang (Eric) Lin +2 more
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“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K‐Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices
ABSTRACT This paper examines how children's affective investments in K‐pop generated sustained multilingual literacy practices in an arts‐based bookmaking project. Drawing on Pennycook's concept of language assemblages and Norton's investment framework, and informed by Paris and Alim's distinction between heritage and community practices, we analyse ...
Julie Choi, Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
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