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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 322-335, February 2026.ABSTRACT Most research into the relationships of linguistic complexity and accuracy to functional adequacy has focused on either spoken or written mode. The current study extended previous studies by investigating these associations across both modalities and how the nature of these relationships was influenced by learners’ L2 proficiency and task type.
Xiaojun Lu, Yui Suzukida
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Working Papers em Lingüística, 2014 O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar resultados parciais de uma pesquisa de mestrado em que foi avaliada a compreensão de leitura em língua inglesa de 69 mestrandos da área de saúde por meio de um teste cloze de múltipla escolha. O teste cloze é uma técnica atualmente utilizada para avaliar a compreensão de leitura nos diversos níveis de escolaridade
Fernanda Goulart Ritti Dias +1 more
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Emergent Predication Structure in Hidden State Vectors of Neural Readers
, 2017 A significant number of neural architectures for reading comprehension have recently been developed and evaluated on large cloze-style datasets. We present experiments supporting the emergence of "predication structure" in the hidden state vectors of ...
Gimpel, Kevin +3 more
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English as a Heritage Language in Japan: Writing Development From Late Childhood to Adolescence
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.Bilingual children and adolescents can develop strong writing skills in their heritage language. In a three‐year study of Japanese–English bilinguals in Japan, English writing scores matched or exceeded those of same‐age U.S. peers and improved each year. Writing development was supported by both home literacy practices and weekend schools.
Janice Nakamura, Suzanne Quay
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Apertura, 2016 La importancia de la memoria operativa en la ejecución de distintas tareas cognitivas altamente demandantes, como la lectura de comprensión y, a su vez, el impacto de ésta en el desempeño estudiantil ha sido revisada en diversas investigaciones aplicadas
Ismael Esquivel Gámez +3 more
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Psychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Understanding speech in background music is a common real‐world challenge, particularly when vocals compete for linguistic processing resources. This study examined how the presence and intelligibility of sung lyrics influence semantic processing in autistic and nonautistic adults.
Jiayin Li +4 more
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Further Exploration of the Fluency Corpus of Academic English Lectures: The Profile of Repetitions
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2326-2341, December 2025.Abstract In assessment contexts, the domain definition inference requires accurate documentation of linguistic demands in a specific target domain for precise measurement. The present study examines several aspects of repetitions in academic lecture settings to offer the domain definition inference for academic listening tests.
Hitoshi Nishizawa
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A Deep Generative Model of Vowel Formant Typology
, 2018 What makes some types of languages more probable than others? For instance, we know that almost all spoken languages contain the vowel phoneme /i/; why should that be?
Cotterell, Ryan, Eisner, Jason
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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2035-2060, December 2025.Abstract This study examined if gaze‐contingent textual enhancement could be used as an interactive focus‐on‐form device to promote learning of second language (L2) collocations from computer‐mediated reading tasks. Seventy‐five Chinese ESL users read three English texts that contained twelve target collocations, presented under one of three conditions:
Jookyoung Jung +5 more
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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