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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Formulaic language"”.
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The Role of Formulaic Language in the Creation of Grammar
Research in the field of Formulaic Language has shown it to be a very diverse phenomenon in both the form it takes and the functions it performs (e.g., Erma and Warren, 2000; Wray, 2002). The proposal made by Sinclair (1991) states that language as a system is organized according to two principles, …
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Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language
This thesis is an investigation of the role of formulaic language in second language (L2) speech fluency development, within a cognitive and information processing framework. Fluency has been studied and defined in terms of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speech, pause frequency and …
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The processing of formulaic language on elicited imitation tasks by second language speakers
… present study investigated the processing of formulaic language, in an effort to examine how the use of formulaic language may or may not contribute to second language (L2) fluency in speaking performance. To examine the effect of formulaic language on L2 fluency, this study utilized elicited …
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
Using the speech act of refusals and formulaic language as focuses of analysis, this thesis aims to explore whether or not grammatical proficiency and development is distinct from pragmatic proficiency. The data were collected from 36 Thai EFL learners at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, …
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Lexical bundles in an advanced INTOCSU writing class and engineering texts: a functional analysis
… This study is concerned with the nature of formulaic language in Pathway IEPs and engineering texts, and whether those types of texts show similar or distinctive formulaic functions. Moreover, the study looked into lexical bundles found in an engineering 1.26 million-word corpus and an ESL …
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Occurrence of plagiarism in the writing of international graduate business students and its detection by SafeAssign
… detection with references, titles, date/time and formulaic language flagged as potential plagiarism. SafeAssign performed best at identifying matches between student papers, inconsistently detected verbatim copying from sources and failed to detect inappropriate paraphrases.
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Ezekiel 26 as a Case Study for Interpreting Problematic Prophecy
… Tyre’s literal destruction, Ezekiel employs formulaic language to stylize Tyre’s judgment after the pattern of YHWH’s judgment against Israel and those who opposed it. To defend this thesis, I present an overview of how various scholars have interpreted the oracles against foreign nations in …
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The comparison of the effectiveness of the Observe Hypothesise Experiment and the Presentation Practice Production models on teaching procedural language of circumlocution and stalling devices to upper intermediate EFL students
… was conducted in the context of teaching formulaic sequences with pragmatic functions, in this case procedural language for two communication strategies (stalling and circumlocution) to twenty upper-intermediate students enrolled on an International Foundation Programme (IFP) in a UK …
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
… context of tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in China from macro, meso and micro levels. At the macro level, Phase I aimed to quantitatively probe into EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoires and speaking proficiency, particularly to explore the contribution of EFL …
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Reading between the lines: psycholinguistic indices of prediction and formulaicity in language comprehension
A comprehensive model of language processing must account for not only how people process literal language, but also how nonliteral language is processed. Further, of theoretical interest to psycholinguists is the role that prediction plays in language processing, namely the conditions under which …
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Effects of Holistic and Analytic Instructional Approaches on the Acquisition of Various Types of Formulaic Sequences: An Empirical Study of Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… approaches affected adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners production and recognition of target formulaic sequences, as measured by oral and written responses on pretest and posttest and a psycholinguistic experiment. Specifically, the goal of the study was to replicate and extend …
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First and Second Generation New York City Bilinguals: What Is the Role of Input in Their Collocational Knowledge of English and Spanish?
… examining the <em>linguistic input</em> – the language speakers hear in their daily lives – in a contact setting like New York City would reveal more about collocational knowledge overall, and specifically about collocational knowledge in bilinguals, as well as about cross-linguistic effects in …