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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"language interference"”.
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Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education
This study seeks to investigate Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education. The study is premised on the assumption that the learner's non-standard language from the home environment is not accommodated in the learning environment. The language used …
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Educational implications of nonstandard varieties of Xhosa
This study aims: (i) to find out if language interference and language change would cause the students to fail Xhosa. The response of schools to this situation will be investigated and an attempt will be made to understand the dichotomy that exists in spoken and written Xhosa. (ii) to look at the …
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An Investigation of English Structure Rules in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… adult students of English as a Second Language were asked to correctly judge the grammaticality of English sentences containing eight selected preposition structure errors. The errors were selected from compositions written by Spanish speakers of varying English ability. The sentences …
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The Way South Vietnamese Pronounce English
… phonemes and predicting errors arising from L1 interference. Chapter 5 is a detailed analysis of the English sounds spoken by the subjects, including descriptions of the results of the first and second tests. This chapter comprises detailed analysis of the vowels, diphthongs, consonants and …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
Humans are capable of learning multiple languages without major difficulty, especially at an early age. While this brings obvious advantages such as intercultural communication and enhanced career prospects, bilingualism has also been linked to changes to selective attention and inhibition of …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
… that dominate bilingual research: i) how the two languages of a bilingual are organised or stored, that is, whether each language is stored in one or more locations in bilingual memory and ii) how the two languages are processed, i.e. what mental capacities are required to process each language. …
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Intonation in Indian English and Hindi late and simultaneous bilinguals
… of pre-boundary lengthening in both their languages. The results of the pitch accent experiment show that the main pitch contour used by late bilinguals in Hindi and Indian English is a LH contour on every non-final content word. Like late bilinguals, simultaneous bilinguals use this LH …