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Marie Bissell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dialects vary in their allophonic patterns, which can affect listeners' phonological and lexical representations. I explore how different exposure to dialect-specific allophonic patterns for two vowels in American English, /ae ai/, affects listeners' lexical processing behaviors across three perception tasks: perceptual similarity, priming, and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation
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Riaz, Mehvish – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
A list of 350 words that deviate in pronunciation from the standard English pronunciation of these words has been suggested in the present study. To highlight the deviant pronunciation of these words from the standard pronunciation, a wordlist based on observation has been suggested. Transcription of the words according to the British, American,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Pronunciation
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Rose, Heath; McKinley, Jim; Galloway, Nicola – Language Teaching, 2021
The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century. In recent years a considerable amount of classroom-based research and language teacher education (LTE) research has emerged to investigate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, Second Language Instruction, Educational Research
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Muir, Christine; Dörnyei, Zoltán; Adolphs, Svenja – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Role models can exert considerable influence in shaping individuals' values, attitudes, and beliefs. A large body of work in the social sciences has investigated the influence of celebrity role models, and in the context of education, several disciplines have a rich research history in this area (e.g. medical education). However, in the context of…
Descriptors: Role Models, Influences, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Grishechko, Elizaveta Georgievna; Sharma, Gaurav; Zheleznova, Kristina Yaroslavovna – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The following paper will reveal the varieties of English pronunciation in India, its features and characteristics. This research helped us to consider the history of occurrence of English in India, the influence of local languages on it, the birth of its own unique English, which is used in India now. The research highlights the impact of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Pronunciation
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Sandberg, Chaleece W.; Blanchette, Frances; Lukyanenko, Cynthia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Insights from linguistic variation research illustrate a linguistically diverse population, in which even speakers who can be classified as speaking a "mainstream" variety have grammatical knowledge of vernacular or "nonmainstream" features. However, there is a gap in our knowledge regarding how vernacular features are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Aphasia, Stimuli, Language Variation
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AlRawi, Maather; AlShurafa, Nuha; Elyas, Tariq – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The paper describes Saudi English morphosyntactic and lexical features that are widely practiced among educated Saudis, who completed at least nine years of English language study. The occurrence of the morphosyntactic features is argued to be affected by the speakers' contact to the native English. Those who are in direct contact with Standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Syntax
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McKee, Rachel; Vale, Mireille; Alexander, Sara Pivac; McKee, David – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Lexical variation and change is prevalent in the short history of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and in the current context of globalized flows of communication we observe growing use of ASL-concordant variants that land in New Zealand via other signed languages, online deaf media, and international interaction. Results from a variant-pair…
Descriptors: Global Approach, American Sign Language, Pragmatics, Semantics
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Saleem, Aisha; Saleem, Tahir; Aziz, Asif – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act "congratulations" is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Markwalder, Ursina; Saalbach, Henrik; Schalk, Lennart – Cognitive Science, 2022
Prior research indicates that humans adapt their language depending on context. This linguistic sensitivity has been suggested to indicate a natural pedagogy shared by all humans. This sensitivity has, however, only been demonstrated with English-speaking samples thus far. In two studies, we followed the experimental procedure of the original…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cross Cultural Studies, German, Metalinguistics
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Clara Molina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Language ideologies are a powerful way of perpetuating inequalities, as peripheralized speakers who have internalized the lack of legitimacy attributed to them often end up reproducing censure rather than resisting it. Foregrounding the affective dimension, this paper explores the role of shame as a fulcrum articulating the individual with the…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Intervention
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Lynn Hou – First Language, 2024
Children's acquisition of directional verbs in sign languages has received a lot of attention, but less is known about the sociocultural process of using these verbs, especially in the context of emerging sign languages in diverse language ecologies. Directional verbs are a common grammatical phenomenon of many sign languages in which some verbs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Deafness, Sociocultural Patterns
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Yue Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
English medium instruction (EMI) can become pantomime in the context of higher education, and such non-participation can be shaped and explained by learners' refusing to invest in the English learning practices while performing their learner/speaker/user identities. Taking a Bourdieusian stance on this issue, the study discusses techno-reflective…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Ali Karakas – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This paper evaluates Voki, a digital platform for creating speaking avatars, in the context of Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT). It firstly outlines the benefits of using animated characters in online tools to personalize language lessons and engage students. As a web-based application, Voki offers various customization options, including…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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Mónica González Ybarra; Elenia Marroquin – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
The purpose of this study is to understand how Latinx preservice teachers (LPSTs) engage their multimodal and multilingual literacies to create comic strips about the knowledge and pedagogies found within their homes located within with U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Drawing on pedagogies of the home and Chicanx/Latinx multimodality, the findings…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Hispanic American Students, Preservice Teachers
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