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Schuster, Michal; Hirsch, Galia – Sign Language Studies, 2018
This article discusses the occurrence of voids in the intersection between Hebrew and Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Using Weizman's classification of voids (2010, 2016) in our analysis, we have discovered that languages that employ visual and auditory modalities make use of an additional category of voids: modality-induced voids. Our corpus…
Descriptors: Deafness, Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Semitic Languages
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Chaleila, Wisam; Khalaila, Basem – English Language Teaching, 2020
While recent literature has focused extensively on the widely embraced approach of explicit instruction, there is a considerable paucity of research concerning plausible practical frameworks that can demonstrate how such particular approach is implementable in EFL classes. To address the specific writing deficiencies of EFL students, the current…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
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Russak, Susie; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Second Language Research, 2017
This article examines the effect of phonological context (singleton vs. clustered consonants) on full phoneme segmentation in Hebrew first language (L1) and in English second language (L2) among typically reading adults (TR) and adults with reading disability (RD) (n = 30 per group), using quantitative analysis and a fine-grained analysis of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Phonemes