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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Form-meaning connections"”.
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Second Language Comprehension and Processing Grammatical Form: The Effects of Topic Familiarity, Mode, and Pausing
… (L2) learners are able to process grammatical form in the input only if they are able to process the informational content at little cost to attentional resources. Using this principle of input processing as a point of departure, this study examines possible ways of decreasing L2 learners' …
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The Effects of Textual Enhancement and Simplified Input on L2 Comprehension and Acquisition of Non-Meaningful Grammatical Form
… input did not help learners acquire the target form. However, the results for comprehension revealed that while textual enhancement had no effect on total idea units in the texts, textual enhancement aided recall of the enhanced information in the texts. Additionally, it was observed that …
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DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH ORAL PROFICIENCY AMONG JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
… input between the first, second, and third performance can lead them to draw their attention to form-meaning connections, resulting in increased oral performance. In addition, low and intermediate beginners benefited in increasing oral fluency, syntactic complexity, and syntactic accuracy, …
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Input Processing and the Teaching of German Two-way Prepositions
… grammar structures when both convey the same information. This study seeks to contribute to the studies investigating this principle by examining whether the presence or absence of redundant lexical cues contributes to or inhibits the learning of German two-way prepositions. Sixty-four …
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Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviours in English speakers' L2 Chinese
… homomorphous SFPs which exhibit a ‘one-to-many’ form-meaning connection are believed to complicate learners’ recognition and acquisition of relevant features on SFPs. It is also demonstrated that the mapping of a feature across CP domains (i.e. from a two-CP structure to a one-CP structure) can …
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Curriculum Design and Language Learning: An Analysis of English Textbooks in Brazil
… processes. QCA provides the means to analyze the meaning of qualitative material in a systematic way. Textbook content can provide qualitative categories that can be rearticulated and resignified, going beyond a format that complies with yes and no to answers. Content analysis helps explore more …