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Linguistics
Tomasz Rozmyslowicz
Summary: This paper develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the politics of machine translation, emphasizing that the distinction between human and machine translation needs to be investigated empirically. The paper demonstrates the analytical fruitfulness of such an approach and the multidimensionality of the politics of machine translation through a series of examples.
PERSPECTIVES-STUDIES IN TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
(2023)
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Linguistics
Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal
Summary: This paper proposes a compositional semantic analysis for approximative kaada in Classical Arabic, which is a clause-level operator. The analysis is based on Penka's integrated semantics framework and incorporates the concept of semantic closeness to interpret the negativity component of kaada. Additionally, the paper explores a puzzle where negated kaada loses its negativity implication in certain contexts, and offers a solution based on a previous suggestion of embedded exhaustification.
LINGUISTICS VANGUARD
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Balazs Fajt, Matyas Banhegyi, Katalin P. Markus
Summary: The use of dictionaries is considered important in L2 learning, and learners should be encouraged to use them independently. This study investigates the relationship between L2 learning motivation, willingness to pay for dictionaries, reading dictionaries' usage guides, and willingness to use dictionaries. The results show that learning motivation has an impact on attitudes towards dictionary use.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEXICOGRAPHY
(2023)
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Linguistics
Nadina Visan
Summary: The article focuses on strategies for translating general extenders (GEs) from English into Romanian. It analyzes literary text samples and their translations to investigate patterns in which these structures are translated. The article explores how a Romanian translator can effectively render GEs into the target language, considering their multiple functions and the repetition challenge in translation.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Charlotte Webber, Katherine Wilkinson, Lynne G. Duncan, Sarah Mcgeown
Summary: Adolescence is a vulnerable period for reading motivation and engagement, but the literature reveals a nuanced pattern of changing interest, attitude, and motivation for reading during this time. This research identifies six themes, including access, mismatch between provision and needs, social factors, reading experiences in school, reading affect, and time and competing activities, that adolescents perceive as barriers to their reading for pleasure.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Xiaomin Yang, Wenping Li
Summary: This study investigates the syntactic development and genre effects among Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) learners using the linguistic measures of mean dependency distance (MDD) and mean hierarchical distance (MHD). The results show that MDD and MHD effectively capture developmental and genre effects, with significantly higher values in argumentative writing than narrative writing. However, the extent of genre effects differs between MDD and MHD.
IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Mohan Matthen
Summary: This article examines the role of hunger as a psychological state in physiological energy homeostasis and argues that hunger is a pure, underived desire. The author explains the similarities between hunger and underived desire after providing explanations of energy homeostasis and desire. Additionally, the author discusses the appropriateness of desire as a tool for achieving energy homeostasis. Lastly, the article proposes that energy homeostasis is a multifactorial, future-regarding behavioral strategy, with hunger serving as a specialized sensory state to implement this strategy.
Article
Linguistics
Hengbin Yan, Yinghui Li
Summary: This article introduces an open-source tool, Constraction, for the automatic extraction and interactive exploration of linguistic constructions from textual corpora. Constraction features a generic algorithm and a browser-based interface, allowing customizable layers of linguistic annotation and visual representation of extracted patterns. Case studies demonstrate the utility of Constraction in language research and pedagogy.
LINGUISTICS VANGUARD
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Hyunbin Yoo, Hyunwoo Kim
Summary: This study investigated the effects of modality and language learning contexts on lexical sophistication in second language production. The results showed significant interactions of modality and L2 learning contexts, indicating that these factors have an impact on the use of sophisticated vocabulary in writing and speaking.
IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Juan Dong, Yawen Han
Summary: This study examines the epistemic nature of EMI policy by investigating Bangladeshi students' language ideologies and reveals the reinforcement of epistemic injustice. The findings highlight the importance of considering the epistemological nature of social justice in policy formulation and implementation, and shaping the language ideologies of micro-level stakeholders. They also provide insights into developing inclusive and diverse learning environments in EMI education.
JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Ilse Depraetere, Stephanie Caet, Sara Debulpaep, Siham Ezzahid, Vikki Janke
Summary: When a paediatrician establishes trust with their patient, it increases the chances of positive outcomes. A calm child who actively engages in communication is more likely to follow the clinician's instructions and experience less pain. This experience influences their approach to healthcare as adults. Our qualitative case study focuses on the linguistic strategies used by a paediatrician in a 32-minute videoed and transcribed exchange with a five-year-old boy preparing for a risky procedure. By identifying and explaining these communicative techniques, we provide insights into their functions and how seemingly unrelated strategies can be grouped under a few general principles. This interdisciplinary approach, based on real data, can be replicated and expanded with healthcare professionals to help them improve their language skills.
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
McKinley Alden, Anja Arnhold
Summary: This article presents an acoustic investigation of gemination, stress, and phonemic length in Central Alaskan Yup'ik. The study reveals that geminated onsets are longer than singleton onsets, stressed vowels are longer and louder than unstressed vowels, and vowel duration is affected by iambic lengthening and syllable closure.
LABORATORY PHONOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Developmental
Ian Morton, C. Melanie Schuele
Summary: This study examines the effect of NP number mismatch on children's sentence comprehension and finds that NP number mismatch leads to improved comprehension in children.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Xiaoming Xi
Summary: This editorial reviews the recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning in language assessment and discusses the validity issues and the importance of ethical use. Accessible questions for evaluating these applications are proposed for lay users. Redefining the concept of language tests is necessary to keep up with the trends in real-world communication.
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jee Eun Sung, Sujin Choi, Geon Ha Kim, Jee Hyang Jeong
Summary: The study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a discourse-based working memory (WM) protocol for individuals with amnestic-type mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The results showed that the treatment group demonstrated significant improvements in story-retelling outcomes, WM span measures, and controlled word association tasks. The findings suggest that the discourse-based WM treatment is effective for MCI, with transfer effects to frontal lobe functions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Angela Gardner, Karen Lichtman
Summary: This study investigated how questioning strategies impact language learner performance. It found that contingent questions can help language learners produce more conjugated verbs and achieve more accurate subject-verb agreement, while also reducing their reliance on translation software.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Yao Long, Yuting Ding
Summary: Despite the increasing importance of multilingualism, studies on Chinese overseas students show that they tend to interpret their learning behaviors based on Western assumptions. This study investigates how these students leverage a material-centered approach to enhance language learning and compares the strategies used by successful and less successful students.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Daniel R. Isbell, Benjamin Kremmel, Jieun Kim
Summary: The application of remote proctoring in language testing raises important issues of fairness and justice, including concerns about construct-irrelevant responses, technological biases, and access to suitable technology and physical space for remote proctoring.
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Bao Trang Thi Nguyen
Summary: This article explores the limitations of automated writing evaluation tools in EFL writing instruction and presents an innovative approach to address students' lexical issues. The approach guides students to expand their vocabulary range through the use of online tools, empowering them to engage in autonomous learning and editing.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Erkan Yuce, Mostafa Nazari, Sedigheh Karimpour
Summary: Despite the growth of research on teachers' emotional vulnerability in recent years, little research has explored this issue among student teachers. This study investigates the emotional vulnerability and coping strategies of Turkish student teachers during a teacher education course using the lens of the community of practice (CoP). The findings reveal that the student teachers experienced emotional vulnerability across the dimensions of the CoP, which not only influenced their present membership but also shaped their future perceptions. They adopted various coping strategies to regulate their negative emotions, reducing the negative effects of emotional vulnerability on their CoP membership.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
(2023)
