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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"nonnative"”.
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Students' perceptions of nonnative ESL teachers
… has been a lot of research on native speaker and nonnative speaker teachers of English as a second language. Authors have addressed negative and positive aspects of these two classes. However, there has not been much research on how students of English as a second language see their nonnative …
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Accent bias towards nonnative accented counseling trainees
… research has consistently shown that people with nonnative accents are viewed less favorably and evaluated less positively compared to those with native accents (e.g., Dragojevic et al., 2021; Giles & Rakić, 2014; Gluszek & Dovidio, 2010a). More importantly, accented speakers are often evaluated …
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Developing Technical Communication Pedagogy For Nonnative Technical Graduate Students
… a pedagogy for teaching academic writing to nonnative graduate students of technical disciplines in order to give them the skills they need to write papers that they can submit to academic journals and conferences, thereby advancing their careers and gaining recognition for their academic …
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Acoustic Analysis of the Voice in Native and Nonnative Speakers
There are significant differences in voice parameters for nonspeech tasks between culturally and linguistically diverse sample populations. Normative data of standard clinical software programs is typically comprised of North American speakers of Standard American English (SAE). There is a need for …
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Comprehension and recall of figurative language by nonnative speakers of English
… population not often tested in this area before, nonnative speakers of English. Most metaphor researchers in psycholinguistics have come to believe that nonliteral language is a vital component of language, not a ""special"" part that is acquired only after literal language has been acquired or …
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Teacher talk: The language of nonnative teachers in Thai EFL classrooms
This study is an exploratory investigation and description of teacher talk in EFL classrooms. The major goal is to investigate the use of teachers' questions in order to determine their patterns of occurrence in the classroom. The study examines whether certain forms and functions of questions are …
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Using Unnatural Amino Acids and Nonnative Cofactors for Metalloprotein Design and Engineering
Different positions for anchoring the salen cofactor to the Mb scaffold were observed to affect both the rate and selectivity of the artificial enzyme in a modular and accumulative fashion. Molecular dynamic simulations indicate that these changes may be due to the steric effects of the linker arms …
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Nonnative speakers' communication strategies in word searches from a conversation analytic perspective
… conversation analysis methodology to analyze how nonnative speakers of English use communication strategies when searching for words. Language learners employ many communication strategies when searching for words, including language switch, appeals for assistance, gestures and circumlocution. In …
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A comparison of French and Kiswahili native-speaker reactions to nonnative speech
… the speech sample on native-speaker judgments of nonnative language. Two languages from different linguistic families were used: French and Kiswahili. Ten contextualized and ten decontextualized speech samples were drawn from oral interviews conducted and rated by trained raters using procedures …
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The native and nonnative foreign language teacher: Attitudes toward Spanish language varieties
Linguistic diversity in the societal domain is a natural phenomenon at any level of interaction, in any linguistic encounter, yet in the educational setting linguistic diversity is frequently noticed and--rightly or wrongly--tends to be given a high degree of attention, both positively and …
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A study of learning and teaching of Kanji for nonnative learners of Japanese
Kanji (Chinese characters) present a serious obstacle of learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Finding an effective and efficient way of teaching them is essential. However, there has not been much research done to investigate how non-native learners of Japanese, in particular English …
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Teaching English to Nonnative English-Speaking Chinese International Students: A Culturally Responsive Approach
… of instructors who teach English writing to nonnative speakers, specifically international Chinese students at higher education institutions across the United States. Participants were those instructors of gateway English/writing courses at both two-year and four-year higher education …
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Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: A study of native and nonnative processing
This study examined morphosyntactic variability in Spanish-speaking learners of English in order to determine the effects of two linguistic factors on the establishment of subject-verb agreement: structural distance and plural markedness. The study also investigated the effects of task demands on …
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Expanding the chemistry of a cupredoxin by designing nonnative active sites and using abiological metals
… not possible their native protein and 2) using nonnative and abiological amino acids, metals, or cofactors to expand the possible chemistry beyond what can be done in nature. In an effort to explore new electron transfer properties of artificial cupredoxin-like metalloproteins, a mutant of the …
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Spatiotemporal response of aquatic native and nonnative taxa to wildfire disturbance in a desert stream network
… in disturbance regimes. Native conservation and nonnative species management could benefit from greater understanding of critical factors promoting or inhibiting native and nonnative success in the absence of human-caused ecosystem change. The objectives of this dissertation were to (1) explain …
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Exploring the Nature of Language Anxiety: Experiences of NonNative EnglishSpeaking College Students in the United States
… encompassing language anxiety (LA) among nonnative Englishspeaking college students in the United States (US). The purpose of this study was to identify LA, while keeping in mind that some of the LA experiences may be moderate to none, and to explore the nature of this phenomenon. Ten …
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A Study of Temporal Variables in English and Korean: Cross-Linguistic, Development, and Native/nonnative Analyses
The present study investigated temporal phenomena in language production, using English and Korean stories based on a film. The temporal variables included were primary temporal variables (speech rate, articulation rate, pause-time ratio, mean length of runs, and mean length of pauses), secondary …
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Non-linguistic Influences on Infants' Nonnative Phoneme Perception: Exaggerated prosody and Visual Speech Information Aid Discrimination
… lose the capacity to perceive distinctions in nonnative sounds as they become sensitive to the speech sounds of their native language (i.e., by 10- to 12-months of age). However, investigations into the decline in nonnative phonetic perception have neglected to examine the role of …
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The Perceptual Draw of Prosody: Infant-Directed Speech within the Context of Declining Nonnative Speech Perception
… what is known about infants' perception of nonnative phonemes (linguistic information) with what is known about infant preferences for ID speech (prosodic information). In particular, the purpose of this series of studies was to examine infant preferences for ID speech within the timeline of …
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