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Al-Jarf, Reima Saado – Online Submission, 2018
This article describes a series of training web-conferences in which graduate students majoring in linguistics in Australia, UK, USA and Saudi Arabia participated. The web-conferences aimed at developing graduate students' electronic searching skills in linguistics, to introduce them to latest trends and developments in linguistic research, and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Videoconferencing
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Thorne, Steven L.; Fischer, Ingrid; Lu, Xiaofei – ReCALL, 2012
Multiplayer online games form complex semiotic ecologies that include game-generated texts, player-to-player communication and collaboration, and associated websites that support in-game play. This article describes an exploratory study of the massively multiplayer online game (MMO) "World of Warcraft" ("WoW"), with specific…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Literacy, Linguistics
Obregon, Patrick Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study investigates the degree to which social, experiential and usage-related factors correlate with Spanish linguistic competence among adult Hispanic Heritage Language (HL) speakers in the United States. Two online survey instruments were developed in furtherance of this research aim: a Likert-scale survey measuring five areas of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistics
Guice, Stephen A. – 1987
The contributions of Peter Stephen DuPonceau and John Pickering to American linguistics in the early nineteenth century are reviewed and discussed. Despite their probable status as amateurs in the study of American Indian languages and their very limited fieldwork, they made some significant contributions to the general field of language studies…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Authors, Grammar, Intellectual History
McNamee, Lawrence Francis – 1968
This is an integrated, classified listing of 18,321 Ph.D. dissertations, prepared so that doctoral students in English or American literature could determine whether or not their potential dissertation topic had been treated in the United States, Britain, or Germany. Subject classification headings also include sections for some dissertations in…
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliographies, Colleges, Coordinate Indexes
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Miura, Irene T.; Okamoto, Yukari – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
The relationship between mathematics performance and fundamental linguistic variations in the cognitive representation of numbers was assessed, using 24 first graders each from the United States and Japan. Results indicate that the Japanese cognitive representation of number positively affects the understanding of place value. No gender…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education