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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Linguistic Transfer"”.
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… precedes the verb, but they do not discuss which linguistic properties have been transferred. The alternative orders are also possible in Standard Spanish, but in Standard Spanish fronted elements encode topic/focus. Since focus fronting could explain the high frequency of preverbal objects in …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
This thesis investigates the possible source of transfer in third language (L3) acquisition by comparing bilingual Guangxi Cantonese and Mandarin learners of English (L3 learners) and Mandarin learners of English (L2 learners) in two writing tasks: story retelling and Chinese-to-English …
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Second language learning from a multilingual perspective
… this question through an examination of cross-linguistic transfer: the role of a speaker's native language in the acquisition, representation, usage and processing of a second language. We present a computational framework that enables studying transfer in a unified fashion across language …
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Language Contact in Majorca: An Experimental Sociophonetic Approach
… that the difference in the direction of cross-linguistic transfer is partially motivated by the relative degree of social salience and/or stigmatization of each individual phonetic feature. The relevance of these findings for language contact research is discussed.
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Perspectives on bi/multilingual pedagogies: insights from a third-year linguistics module at a South African university
… use of bi/multilingual pedagogies by third year linguistics lecturers and their students at a selected university in the Western Cape in South Africa. A qualitative case study was conducted at a selected South African university. The study employed ethnographic tools such as observation and …
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Variación Sintáctico-Semántica Del Artículo Definido en Sintagmas Nominales en El Español De Hispanohablantes De Herencia
… resultado de este contacto, ocurren fenómenos de transferencia lingüística en distintos aspectos de la lengua (Silva-Corvalán, 1994, 2001; Thomason & Kaufman, 1988; Weinreich, 1966; Winford, 2003). En esta disertación se analiza la transferencia en la sintaxis y en la semántica de sintagmas …
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How can translanguaging be used to support the development of conceptual understanding of division with 8-9-year-old learners in an English-French bilingual education context?
… the learning possibilities afforded by crosslinguistic translanguaging (Cummins, 2022) at the intersection of mathematics education and sociolinguistics research. The study focused upon a class of 8-9-year-old pupils engaging in a sequence of four lessons exploring the mathematical operation …
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Factores lingüísticos y no-lingüísticos en el contacto entre el papiamento y el español en Aruba
… identify the contact features of Aruban Spanish transferred from Papiamento along with the linguistic and non-linguistic factors (tourism, education) that condition their appearance and, (2) to contextualize Aruban Spanish in the broader Caribbean context issues of identity in Aruba. Several …
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The nested contexts of language use and literacy learning in a South African fourth grade class: understanding the dynamics of language and literacy practices
… I was guided by sociocultural and cognitive-linguistic theories of language and literacy. I collected data from the focal students—four of which I used to present findings—the 4th grade teacher, the foundation phase teachers, the principal, and the parents/guardians of the focal students. …
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Investigating the Translation of Euphemism in the Quran from Arabic into English
… of language pairs, examining their cross linguistic and cultural differences. Translation approaches, procedures and techniques are not one size fits all. They may work well for Indo-European languages but may not for Semitic languages, for instance. They are often prescriptive, abstract …
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A Case Study of English Learners' Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary in a High School English 1 for Speakers of Other Languages Classroom
… on recognizing cognates facilitated cross-linguistic transfer in students’ learning of English academic vocabulary. Conclusion: The findings suggested that explicit vocabulary instruction enhanced students’ second-language acquisition empowering them to become more confident in their …
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Morphological Competence in English: Comparing Advanced L2 and L3 English Learners
… morphology, often with a goal to test cross-linguistic influence in L2 learning and processing, tends to focus on learners from typologically close first-language (L1) backgrounds (e.g., European languages, which are also rich in derivation, such as German); few studies, however, have …
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Impact of digital games on early reading skills in a developing country context
… size. The results also indicated the cross-linguistic transfer of reading skills from English (L2) to Urdu (L1) using the digital game and long-term retention of reading skills after the digital games were removed. This study has furthered the understanding of the design and nature of an …
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Translation versus direct composition. effects of first language on second language arab writers
… into English, subjects are more likely to transfer negatively from their first language into their second language writing. 2) Raters, although reliable and objective, contribute a crucial dimension to the results of the study. Data consisted of 180 essays, 60 composed in Arabic, 60 …
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Spanish pragmatic markers' usage patterns in second language and heritage speakers
… groups. This style is characterized by a) cross-linguistic transfer from the L1 to the L2 (including examples of code-switching and/or borrowings, as well as the transfer of certain discourse-pragmatic functions from the English pragmatic markers to the Spanish ones); b) the overuse of certain …