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Douglas Rhein; Brian Phillips – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
As the transnational education market continues to grow, Asian universities are experiencing a more significant influx of short-term visiting and exchange students from western nations. This article summarises research on the motivations of American international students studying in Thailand. The purpose of this study is to better understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, Study Abroad, Higher Education
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Sanghee J. Kim; Ming Xiang – Cognitive Science, 2024
While a large body of work in sentence comprehension has explored how different types of linguistic information are used to guide syntactic parsing, less is known about the effect of discourse structure. This study investigates this question, focusing on the main and subordinate discourse contrast manifested in the distinction between restrictive…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure, Syntax
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Dailey, Shannon; Bergelson, Elika – Child Development, 2023
Prior research points to gender differences in some early language skills, but is inconclusive about the mechanisms at play, providing evidence that both infants' early input and productions may differ by gender. This study examined the linguistic input and early productions of 44 American English-learning infants (93% White) in a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Linguistic Input, North American English
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Greg Woodin; Bodo Winter – Cognitive Science, 2024
There are three main types of number used in modern, industrialized societies. Cardinals count sets (e.g., people, objects) and quantify elements of conventional scales (e.g., money, distance), ordinals index positions in ordered sequences (e.g., years, pages), and nominals serve as unique identifiers (e.g., telephone numbers, player numbers).…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Language Usage, English, North American English
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Sutasinee Khoonthongnoom – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of this research is to explore three English synonyms, namely critical, serious, and crucial, with a particular focus on meanings, degrees of formality, collocations, and semantic preferences. Two dictionaries, namely the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online, as well as the Corpus…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Semantics, Preferences, English
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James Turner – Second Language Research, 2025
This study analyses the production of French /y/ and /u/ by 42 native English learners of French (ELoF) at the start and end of a Residence Abroad (RA) in a French-speaking country. As an approximation of both phonological and phonetic development, categorical change is teased apart from gradient change using k-medoid clustering of acoustic data…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonetics, Phonology, French
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Nateethorn Narkprom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Through consultations with the online version of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), this study focuses on distinguishing between the two synonymous verbs "restrict" and "constrain," both part of Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, in terms of formality…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Dictionaries, English
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Jinane Sounny-Slitine – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2024
Arab American college students must navigate the paradox of being hypervisible as well as invisible while in college. They are a unique and diverse group of students whose lived experiences and ways of belonging are underexplored. In this study of 12 Arab American college students, participants discussed how they understand their Arab American…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Organizations, Student Participation, Arabs
Semaa Shlebah – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative grounded research study explores the experiences of counseling among Arab American individuals, aiming to shed light on their unique perspectives, challenges, and coping strategies within the counseling process. Through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, 11 individuals were interviewed. The study highlights the…
Descriptors: Arabs, North Americans, Counseling, Experience
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Kongsatt, Ratchadavan; Chaisuwanb, Thanchanok; Chaokuembong, Kamonpit; Thalee, Paphachaya; Suebtaetrakoon, Anutta – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is a distinct variety of English that exhibits unique phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. However, the focus of this study was on the grammatical aspects of AAVE. The objectives were to identify and analyze the predominant grammatical features of AAVE employed by Justin Bieber in his songs from…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Singing, North American English, Grammar
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Andrew Cheng; Elise McClay; H. Henny Yeung – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Research on the acoustic characteristics of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) in North American English indicates that it is generally higher-pitched than Adult Directed Speech (ADS) and has unique prosodic characteristics, which is commonly found across many spoken languages. However, very little research has addressed another important aspect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Infants, North American English
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Charlotte Corran; Mayesha Khan; Stephanie Gallant; Uri Shalev; Roisin M. O'Connor – Journal of American College Health, 2024
The association between restrained eating and alcohol use remains poorly understood among undergraduates. Consistent with tension reduction theory, individuals with disordered eating may be motivated to drink alcohol to cope with negative emotionality. Perhaps what pushes them to drink despite restriction goals is impulsivity. The combined impact…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Eating Disorders, Alcohol Abuse, Coping
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Chaengchenkit, Rangsiya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study aims to investigate the distribution across genres and the collocation of three synonymous verbs "cease," "halt," and "stop." Data were drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results from the distribution across genres shed light on the degree of formality of each verb. The verb…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Verbs
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Thorson, Jill C.; Franklin, Lauren R.; Morgan, James L. – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This study examined how toddler looking to a discourse referent is mediated by the information status of the referent and the pitch contour of the referring expression. Eighteen-month-olds saw a short discourse of three sets of images with the proportion of looking time to a target analyzed during the final image. At test, the information status…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Al Ghamdi, Rowida – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigates the politeness strategies employed by Saudi EFL teachers when expressing their disagreements on Twitter. It examines the factors affecting Saudi EFL teachers' choice of politeness and disagreement strategies. It compares Saudi EFL teachers' disagreement expressions with those of American ESL teachers on Twitter. Four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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