Article
Linguistics
Ethan Morrow, Amnee Elkhalid, Madeline S. Pringle
Summary: Using intergroup contact and stigma management communication theories, this study examines the impact of cultural teaching and learning in Spanish language classes on cultural stigma, social distance, and ethnocentrism. The results indicate that integrating culture in foreign language education is associated with increased cultural knowledge and indirectly reduces cultural stigma and social distance towards individuals from foreign cultures.
LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Daniel Gutzmann
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Qianqian Jiang, Jingyang Jiang, Haitao Liu
Summary: This study investigates the impact of distance-invoked difficulty, proficiency level, and cross-linguistic similarity on error occurrences in English compositions by Chinese and Japanese learners. The results show that low- and middle-level learners have higher error rates in long-distance dependency relations, but high-level learners can overcome the difficulty and make fewer errors. Chinese and Japanese learners make more errors in long-distance adverbial and relative clauses than in short-distance ones, while they make fewer errors in L1-similar long-distance subject-predicate dependency relations. Japanese learners, however, show no significant differences in error rates in long- and short-distance predicate-object dependency relations. The study reveals the complex interaction between learners' cognition, proficiency, and L1.
IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Philippe Schlenker
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Simona Simon, Daniel Dejica-Caris, Marcela Alina Farcasiu, Annamaria Kilyeni
Summary: This article introduces the piloting session of the Erasmus+ project Train2Validate, which aims to verify whether the educational content created within the project meets the needs of people with disabilities. The feedback from the session helps the Romanian project team make better recommendations and is praised by the trainees for contributing to the social and linguistic inclusion of people with disabilities.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Francisco A. Borja
Summary: This investigation demonstrates how word embedding and co-occurrence analysis can be used to deduce key concepts and determine the influence of a particular school of thought within a corpus. By applying statistical methods, the study shows the concerns and concepts discussed within the Journal des Economistes, a platform for the French Liberal School, from 1841 to 1936.
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Rania Al-Aqarbeh, Jon Sprouse
Summary: This study investigates island effects and theories of island amelioration by resumption in Jordanian Arabic. The results show that different types of dependencies and islands lead to distinct grammatical effects, challenging existing theories and providing further research directions.
SYNTAX-A JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL EXPERIMENTAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Marijana Macis, Rezan Alharbi, Suhad Sonbul
Summary: Research on lag effects in second language collocation learning is limited. This study examined the relationship between intersession intervals (ISIs) and retention intervals (RIs) in relation to incidental acquisition of collocations. The results showed that both a 3.5-day ISI and a 7-day ISI were equally effective for the incidental acquisition of collocations.
IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Xiaoping Fang, Charles A. Perfetti
Summary: Consolidation is essential for integrating new words into the mental lexicon, but its role in learning new meanings for known words is still unclear. Sleep has been found to benefit memory for new meanings, but these new meanings do not become integrated into the mental lexicon within a day.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Alice Chik, Jill Murray
Summary: This paper discusses a case study of two Chinese-heritage senior migrants and emphasizes the importance of having English proficiency in the role of grandparents in Australia for their overall well-being.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jiajing Li, Ronnel B. King, Chuang Wang
Summary: Past studies have shown gender differences among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, but most of these studies have focused on mean-level differences. This study used a person-centered approach to explore the motivational profiles of boys and girls and their associations with basic psychological needs support and academic achievement. The results revealed distinct profiles for both boys and girls, with some differences between genders.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jinfen Xu, Jiaqi Yang, Dengke He
Summary: This study explores the relationship between control-value appraisals, academic emotions, and student engagement in English learning among Chinese English major students. The results indicate that control-value appraisals significantly predict academic emotions and have a profound impact on student engagement.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Communication
Wellman Kondowe
Summary: This paper introduces a new perspective for analyzing insincerity in courtrooms, specifically focusing on questions asked by lawyers in the Malawi criminal justice system. The study examines the linguistic tools used by lawyers to trace insincerity and investigates the varying degrees of insincerity exhibited by defence and prosecution lawyers, as well as their reasoning behind such choices. The findings suggest that there is a higher likelihood of insincerity in courtroom settings, which can be observed in the questions asked by lawyers. Furthermore, the study highlights the differences in language use between prosecutors and defence lawyers, with the latter displaying higher levels of insincerity. These findings have significant jurisprudential implications, particularly in Africa where research on language and law is understudied.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Megan L. Wood, Lydia Gunning, Cecile De Cat
Summary: This study examines the representation of ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged families in research based on a survey of multilingual families during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results show that the large proportion of respondents from Bradford affected the representativeness of the sample and the patterns of responses. Families who were more engaged with their heritage language showed more positive attitudes towards multilingualism and had more marked changes in language practices during the lockdown. The study argues that the exceptional engagement of Bradford communities in research led to better representativity of family profiles in the national survey.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Jenna T. Conklin
Summary: This study compares remote recordings taken via smartphone and web-based recording through Gorilla with traditional laboratory recordings. It finds that remote offline recording can accurately replicate studies of English vowel reduction, but researchers should be aware of specific distortions that may occur with each method.
LABORATORY PHONOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Oana Adriana Duta, Cecilia Mihaela Popescu
Summary: An ideal translator profile is important for both translation providers and beneficiaries. This study focuses on the context of Romanian higher education, distinguishing between graduates of Philology and graduates of Economics or Business as translation providers. The research investigates the extent to which these two profiles align with the ideal business translator profile, as well as their respective strengths and weaknesses. Recommendations for university training are also provided based on the findings.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Qingqing Liu, Weibo Li, Yuanwu Chen, Shaohua Zhang, Zengxin Sun, Yuhui Yang, Peiyuan Lv, Yu Yin
Summary: This study investigated the clinical efficacy of low-frequency rTMS combined with music therapy in improving language function and depression in patients with non-fluent aphasia after stroke. The results showed that the combined therapy group had better outcomes compared to the traditional therapy group and the music therapy group. Language improvement was positively correlated with depression improvement. The study suggests that low-frequency rTMS combined with music therapy is feasible and safe for treating non-fluent aphasia patients after stroke.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Lori Mitchell, Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui, Krista Byers-heinlein
Summary: The study shows that bilinguals produce a greater proportion of cognate words in their early vocabulary development and learn them faster than non-cognate words. This suggests that the learning of cognates is facilitated in bilinguals, especially when there is phonological overlap between the two languages.
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Claudia Kunschak, Birgit Strotmann
Summary: Globalisation and internationalisation have led to the development of multilingual, multicultural universities. However, these universities may not adequately consider the challenges stakeholders face. This study investigates the implications of internationalisation for policy, pedagogy, and practice in a Spanish university.
JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Geraint Paul Rees, Robert Lew
Summary: This study compares the effectiveness of AI-generated definitions to those from the Macmillan English Dictionary (MED) in resolving vocabulary doubts. The results show that students provided with MED definitions performed better on the reading task. However, there was no significant difference between the performance of students with MED definitions or AI-definitions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEXICOGRAPHY
(2023)
