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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"language switching"”.
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Language-switching cost in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking
Code-switching, or language-switching, which is the use of elements from two or more languages in the same utterance or in the same stretch of conversation (Paradis et al., 2011), is prevalent among bilingual and multilingual speakers. According to the parallel activation hypothesis of language …
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Language-switching cost in Chinese-English bilingual reading comprehension: Evidence from eye-tracking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning
… have been employed, evaluating the effects of language-switching training and second-language (L2) learning. Our cross-sectional studies in the UK and Singapore showed that context mediates the relation between bilingualism and cognition. Effects were more apparent in the multilingual …
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Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children
… nine-year-olds. Inclusion of child language brokers (those who translate and interpret for non-English speaking family members) diversified the definition of "bilingual." Previous research has shown bilingual advantages in areas of metalinguistic awareness and executive function …
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… that offer to identify the boundaries between languages and dialects, yet these distinctions are inconsistent and are often as political as they are linguistic (Chambers & Trudgill, 1998). A different perspective is offered in this thesis, by investigating how closely related linguistic …
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Bilingualism and executive functioning: language experience as more than a binary variable.
… set shifting tasks, including a novel response switching task, were compared across four studies. Emphasis has been placed on the importance of bilingual background variables, such as 2nd language ability and age of acquisition, and these were included alongside multiple measures of daily …
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Multilinguals' language control
… tried to explain how speakers of more than one language (multilinguals) manage to keep their languages separate and to switch from one language to the other depending on the context. This ability of multilingual speakers to use the intended language, while avoiding interference from the other …
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Mā te hangarau te oranga o te reo Māori e tautoko ai? Can technology support the long-term health of the Māori language?
… to support the ongoing health of an endangered language? Since the late twentieth century unprecedented and substantial social changes have been propelled by advances in contemporary technologies. Continuous connectivity harnessing digital communication, mass media and social networking has …
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Investigating language preferences in improving multilingual Swahili information retrieval
… designed to retrieve information from multiple languages in response to a query posed in another language or in one of the languages in which a user is looking for information. Researchers have proposed several approaches for combining the results from individual result lists to produce a single …
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A First Language in Second Language Writing
… the results show that some students do language switch and use their L1 when prewriting. More research is needed to see what students and instructors believe is prewriting. There also needs to be more elucidation in survey material, more exposition for subjects as to what prewriting …