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Translanguaging in Translation: Invisible Contributions That Shape Our Language and Society. Translanguaging in Theory and Practice
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Sato, Eriko – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It examines the traces of translanguaging in translated texts with special focus on the strategic use of scripts, morphemes, words, names, onomatopoeias, metaphors, puns and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Applied Linguistics, Translation, Literary Criticism
Form-Meaning Interactions: Effects of Phonology on Semantic Judgements in Monolingual and Bilingual Language Processing
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Siqi Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language can alter our mental conceptions of space, time, and categories. While there is compelling evidence that thought can be shaped by syntactic, morphological, and lexical features of a language, less is known about the impact of phonology on thought. This dissertation uses novel objects (alien cartoon figures) and pseudoword names in three…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Phonology, Color
Positive Effects of Passive Voice Exposure on Children's Passive Production during a Classroom Story-Telling Training
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Garraffa, Maria; Smart, Francesca; Obregón, Mateo – Language Learning and Development, 2021
The present study investigated the effect of classroom-based syntactic training on children's abilities to produce passive sentences. Thirty-three monolingual English children (mean age 5;2), were involved in passive-voice training based on storytelling sessions within a priming design. The training was delivered in a classroom setting, with two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, English, Monolingualism
Understanding How Time Flies and What It Means to Be on Cloud Nine: English as an Additional Language (EAL) Learners' Metaphor Comprehension
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Hessel, Annina K.; Murphy, Victoria A. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
We explored the vocabulary and metaphor comprehension of learners of English as an additional language (EAL) in the first two years of UK primary school. EAL vocabulary knowledge is believed to be a crucial predictor of (reading) comprehension and educational attainment (Murphy, 2018). The vocabulary of five- to seven-year-old children with EAL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
The Effects of Input Flood, Structured Input, Explicit Information, and Language Background on Beginner Learners' Acquisition of a Target Structure in Mandarin Chinese
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Laurene Glimois – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Bilingualism is associated with lifelong cognitive benefits that correlate with facilitated achievements in subsequent language learning. Second language (L2) instruction as well can promote the development of cognitive abilities involved in language learning, and among these, L2 input processing. Crucial to L2 acquisition, input processing is the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input
EFL Students' Perceptions of Corpus-Tools as Writing References
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Lai, Shu-Li – Research-publishing.net, 2015
A number of studies have suggested the potentials of corpus tools in vocabulary learning. However, there are still some concerns. Corpus tools might be too complicated to use; example sentences retrieved from corpus tools might be too difficult to understand; processing large number of sample sentences could be challenging and time-consuming;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes