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Common Difficulties in English for Non-Native Speakers
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
… question the current view of the relevance of ""native speaker competence"" in second language acquisition literature. The study points out the implications of the coexistence of two or more language systems in a speaker's mind and their influence on his/her sociocultural values and …
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The acquisition of the Pro-drop parameter by non-native speakers of Spanish
… process. Two different models can be proposed: non-access to UG vs access to UG. The non-access to UG (Bley-Vroman, 1989; Clashen and Muysken, 1986) model claims that L1 and L2 acquisition are completely different learning mechanisms. In contrast, different versions of the access to UG model …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… that are qualitatively similar to those of native speakers for linguistic content that is not explicitly taught in the classroom. It does so by focusing on the domains of speech processing and speech production in L2 learners. Specifically, this dissertation investigates the processing and …
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Accent services: Considering the perspectives of non-native speakers of English for a culturally affirming practice
… that is intended to, among other things, help speakers improve their intelligibility in a target second language. This area of practice has been, and continues to be, a controversial topic amongst scholars and practitioners. To explore and understand the perspectives of non-native speakers of …
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An exploration of the learning-teaching of English as a second language by non-native speakers
… exploratory study of the teaching strategies of non-native speakers English who teach English as a second language in secondary schools. Classroom observations of three teachers were conducted. It was found that teaching and through English as a second language is not a single decisive factor in …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… island constraints on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). According to the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis (Schwartz & …
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Verbs in the written English of Chinese learners : a corpus-based comparison between non-native speakers and native speakers
This thesis consists of ten chapters and its research methodology is a combination of quantitative and qualitative. Chapter One introduces the theme of the thesis, a demonstration of a corpus-based comparative approach in detecting the needs of the learners by looking for the similarities and …
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A comparative study of the present preparation programmes for teachers of Arabic for native and non-native speakers in the Riyadh Universities
… preparation programmes: Teachers of Arabic as a Native Language (TANL) and Teachers of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) at King Saud University (KSU) and Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), both in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The research is thorough and goes beyond a comparison of …
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How non-native speakers make do with words when doing things with words : an analysis of communication strategies in storytelling by Mandarin-speaking learners of English
… and analyse sequences of actions generated by Native Speakers( NS) and Non-Native Speaker( NNS) in the course of telling a story. Emergent communication problems during the talk-in-interaction were engaged with and resolved through the application of communication strategies (CS). The …
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English Education and Tesol Teacher Preparation Programs: A Comparative Study of Programs at Ten Institutions
… teachers of English trained to teach either native or non-native speakers of that language are able to teach any students of English regardless of whether they were native or non-native.
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Word searches in L1 and L2 Italian conversation: re-establishing intersubjectivity
… is restored after a repair initiation in native and non-native speakers in Italian conversations. The main objective of the present study is to fill a gap in previous research analyzing a particular instance of repair, word search, which focuses on lexical items, both in native (NSs) and …
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An investigation of primary stress in spontaneous speech for pedagogical purposes
… English is an important pronunciation skill for non-native speakers to master. The purpose of the study was to contribute to the understanding of native-speaker primary stress placement, and to discuss the pedagogical implications. Two random segments from a collection of spontaneous, …
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A conversation analytic study on teaching moments observed in free conversations between Japanese and American friends
… of vocabulary, idioms, and culture occurs when native speakers orient to the non-nativeness of the other speakers. Native speakers of English recurrently produce “in America” and activate the other speakers’ non-native membership categorization, which occurs abruptly in a sequence with a …
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The Impact of Co-presence and Visual Elements in 3D VLEs on Interpersonal Emotional Connection in Telecollaboration
… of the conversation, (2) 3-D VLEs may help native speakers or non-native speakers with higher proficiency to enforce emotional connections, (3) for non-native speakers, 3-D VLEs may bring positive effects, a sense of connection with their partners, and a negative effect, uncomfortableness, …
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Native Speakers' Reactions to Non -Native Stress in English Discourse
… evidence supporting the general hypothesis that native speakers process, understand, and respond more positively to non-native English speech when primary stress is used correctly compared to when it is not. Practical implications include suggestions for incorporating the teaching of English …
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Testing the Measurement Invariance of Large-Scale Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency Using Multiple Group Covariance Structure Analyses and Item Response Modeling
… is argued to evaluate the potential success of non-native speakers of English to understand and use standard American English at English speaking higher education institutions, measures the same abilities or attributes to the same degree across the different first language (L1) groups in a …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
This thesis focuses on the extent to which non-native speakers of English understand potentially ironic utterances in a similar way to native speakers. Barbe (1995: 4) sees irony as one of ‘the final obstacles before achieving near native-speaker fluency.’ This assumption is supported by the …
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Measurement equivalence of extraversion and conscientiousness items and scale across four countries
… 1-4 items of each scale to have measurement nonequivalence in each pair of comparison, although the effect sizes were not large. The mean differences in Extraversion and Conscientious between the US and the three other countries were consistent with previous findings based on cultural …
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