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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sociolinguistic competence"”.
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The Development of Role-Taking Abilities and Sociolinguistic Competence in Three Interpersonal Communication Domains Among Caucasian, Black, and Spanish-American Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth-Grade Children
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Teaching Culture through Social Situations in English as a Second Language Classes
<p>To develop communicative competence, second language learners in addition to mastering linguistic, strategic, structural and discoursal aspects of the language, have to acquire sociolinguistc rules and conventions. The project sought to design a handbook to teach communicative competence along …
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The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants
… importance of the study of the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in a new language.Recently, Manchester has seen an influx of Roma migrants. Previous research suggests that migrants can acquire local patterns of variation in a new language and that social networks may impact upon this …
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"YO DIGO 'ESTÁ' PORQUE... ": THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE SPANISH COPULA IN A STUDY ABROAD VARIETY IN CHILE
… learners studying in Chile (N = 31). Bridging sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, it delves into sociolinguistic competence acquisition in an immersive context, focusing on copula development and use. The study collected data through a picture-based oral elicitation task and a …
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An Empirical Investigation of Russian Interlanguage at the Superior Level and the Perspective of the Educated Native Speaker
… should receive first priority; aspect, case, and sociolinguistic competence represent a second level of priority; ellipsis, agreement, and parts of speech represent a third; and formation of words and idioms, pronunciation, word order, number, and gender represent a fourth. A detailed catalogue of …
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
Sociolinguistic competence is considered as an important component of communicative competence that language learners need to acquire. In recent years, there has been much interest in measuring this kind of competence in such communicative acts as apologizing by asking the learners to react in …
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Ideology, Gender Roles, and Pronominal Choice: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English third person generic pronouns by native speakers of Arabic
This study is a sociolinguistic investigation of the use of four English generic pronouns (he, she, he or she, singular they) by Arabic-speaking second language learners of English. This study takes a different approach to the investigation of second language (L2) acquisition and use by examining …