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Gaining and Gauging Trust Through Small Stories in the Interaction Between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the lead‐up to their asylum interviews, unaccompanied minors often struggle to disclose the highly sensitive and personal narratives of their migration journeys to their guardians. Instead, they may resort to “thin stories”: generic, rehearsed stories of suffering, which risk being qualified by the authorities as “inauthentic” or even ...
Lotte Remue
wiley   +1 more source

Gender‐Specific Phonetic Variability in Sanzhi Dargwa

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Western sociophonetic research often overlooks minority languages. Our study targets this gap with a sociophonetic study of Sanzhi Dargwa, an endangered East Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan (Russian Federation) by a small community with clearly defined binary gender roles.
Melanie Weirich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional Compression and Maternal Participation in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Qualitative Study of Nurse-Mother Communication Barriers and Co-Produced Solutions. [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare (Basel)
Elsharkawy NB   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
wiley   +1 more source

Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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