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Heritage Aymara Bilingual in the North of Chile: Evidence of a Language Contact Situation to Enrich Intercultural Education
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Markovits Rojas, Jennifer Rosanna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Study 1: The present work examined the connection between language and conceptual development, investigating whether false-belief reasoning (FBR) and source-monitoring ability (SMA) abilities within the theory of mind (ToM) framework constrained the comprehension of semantic and pragmatic knowledge (evidential scalar implicatures) encoded in the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, American Indian Languages, Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries
Metalinguistic Negation in English and Arabic
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Nedwick, Kelly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Negation is a unique and fascinating property of human language which has been given extensive theoretical and typological treatment. One categorization divides negation use into metalinguistic negation and descriptive negation (Horn, 1985). Descriptive negation (DN) is the truth-functional semantic operator which has received the most attention…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Morphemes, Classification, Morphology (Languages)
Verbalizing in the Second Language Classroom: The Development of the Grammatical Concept of Aspect
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Garcia, Prospero N. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Framed within a Sociocultural Theory of Mind (SCT) in the field of Second Language Acquisition (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006), this dissertation explores the role of verbalizing in the internalization of grammatical categories through the use of Concept-based Instruction (henceforth CBI) in the second language (L2) classroom. Using Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Learning Theories