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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"bilinguals"”.
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"Fragile bilinguals: rescaling ""good"" and ""bad"" South Korean bilinguals"
… and try to stake a claim to being legitimate bilinguals through the process of metapragmatic typification (Agha, 2007). First, I investigate how tensions between Koreanness (nationalism/tradition) and cosmopolitanism (national betrayal) are exercised and displayed through mediatized …
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Bilinguals’ Emotion and Language: An Exploratory Study of Korean-English Bilinguals’ Experience of and Expression of Shame
… of emotion and language in Korean-English bilinguals’ shame experiences and expressions. This research addresses a gap in the literature as it highlights the impact of the English language for non-native English-speaking students’ emotions in Higher Education, which is an under-researched …
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Crosslinguistic influence in the speech of Hungarian-English bilinguals
The study is written in an attempt to report on factors that affect language transfer between Hungarian and English and on the extent 1.1 and 1.2 lexical elements are integrated into the speech in either language. An attempt is made to classify the functions of the integrated lexical elements. …
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Factor analytic study of semantic differentiel ratings by bilinguals
… differential for French-English balanced bilinguals. Two hundred and sixty-five concepts varying on the abstractness-concreteness continuum were rated on 18 scales by 100 Ss. Profiles of mean scale values for each concept, factor scores and the semantic structure are presented. Factor sets …
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Japanese-English Bilinguals’ Competence Of Speech Acts In Politeness
… question. Thus, this study investigated whether bilinguals who move to a L2 dominant country retain their communicative competence of L1 politeness even after residing there for an extended period of time. This paper presents a case study of Japanese-English bilinguals who were born in Japan to …
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Simultaneous and Sequential Bilinguals in a German Bilingual Program
… bodies (ways of being) of students are emerging bilinguals (Escamilla & Hopewell, 2009) in the process of developing their identity and proficiency as bilinguals. Based on the nature of their bilingualism, their linguistic profiles can be categorized as (a) simultaneous bilinguals of German and …
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Discourse-Pragmatic Features in English and Spanish Among Bilinguals
… in the speech of eighteen Spanish-English bilinguals from Southern Arizona. In doing so, it analyzes the linguistic and social conditioning of three discourse-pragmatic features that are prominent in both languages. These discourse-pragmatic features include the discourse marker like in …
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Syllabification and Visual Word Segmentation in Spanish–English Bilinguals
… L1 Spanish–L2 English and L1 English–L2 Spanish bilinguals. L1 Spanish speakers have been shown to use a syllable-based segmentation approach to Spanish word segmentation while L1 English speakers have shown only a slight sensitivity to the syllable’s role when segmenting in their L2. Lastly, …
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Brain Structure and Age of Acquisition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
… structure. Whereas some studies suggest that bilinguals handle both languages via a single set of cognitive control regions regardless of AoA, others suggest that each language depends on different sets of brain regions for late (but not early/simultaneous) bilinguals. Likewise, structural …
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Consonantal voicing effects on vowel duration in Italian-English bilinguals
… compares the performance of Italian-born bilinguals for whom English was acquired in adulthood, as a second language, with that of U.S.-born speakers who experienced simultaneous acquisition of their languages (albeit in an English-dominant setting). </p> <p>In separate sessions for each …
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Intonation in Indian English and Hindi late and simultaneous bilinguals
… the speech of both late and simultaneous bilinguals, this study aims to give a broader prospective about the speech of Indian English-Hindi bilinguals. The main objectives of this study are to understand the intonation system of Indian English and Hindi spoken in Delhi, India; to explore …
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Conversational code-switching among Japanese-English bilinguals who have Japanese background
The aim of this study is to investigate the code-switching of native speakers of Japanese in an English-speaking context. The languages involved in code-switching therefore are English and Japanese. This is an instance of communication in the participants' first language, in a setting where the …
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Teacher professional development related to emergent bilinguals: Teacher perceptions and experiences
… is one other than English, or are emergent bilinguals (EBs), in the United States. If teachers are not prepared adequately, they are not able to meet the needs of students appropriately. The following study sought to determine whether or not public school elementary teachers in Southeastern …
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Promoting critical literacy among emergent bilinguals: an exploration of their identities
This study was an action research study that examined how second grade bilingual children defined “the word and their world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, school, and classroom constructions of race, culture and languages when students …
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Phonological Priming in Japanese-English Bilinguals: Evidence from Lexical Decision and ERP
… phonological priming effects in Japanese-English bilinguals when English words (e.g., guy) were primed by phonologically related logographic (Kanji) words (e.g., 害, /gai/, “harm”) and also when English words (e.g., guide) were primed by phonologically similar phonogram (Katakana) words (e.g.,サイド, …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… speech perception and processing for early bilinguals. If the same is true for late bilinguals, then their L1 performance should be expected to show an effect of the less restrictive L2 English system compared to monolingual listeners. Two pairs of studies were conducted, one for each …
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