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Unveiling Learners' Attention during Language Processing: The Case of Epistemic Meanings of a Modal Verb
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Hondo, Junko – Language Awareness, 2012
In an analysis of learners' reflections taken in real time, this study attempts to unveil what learners attend to during a task session. A total of 110 Japanese learners of English noted rationales for their form selections of epistemic modal verbs. The data were then coded and tallied to enable quantitative analysis and to examine the association…
Descriptors: Japanese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
A Conceptual Approach to Existential Verbs in Japanese: The Case of Aru versus Iru
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Strauss, Susan – Language Awareness, 2008
This paper presents an alternative analysis of the two Japanese existential verbs: aru and iru. By appealing to the notion of conceptualisation that pervades the cognitive linguistic literature, I demonstrate that the two verbs pattern as motion verbs, and not simply as verbs of existence and/or location. Throughout the paper, I demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Verbs, Motion, Native Speakers, Japanese