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From:Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe are particularly delighted to have been invited to edit this special issue of IJOAL on CALL in Second Language Acquisition: New Approaches for Teaching and Testing. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL),...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 46, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedLike many places in the United States, Iowa has recently experienced a major influx of non-English-speaking immigrants, many of whom are from war-torn countries. During the 1990s, the number of limited English...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction It is a widely accepted view in the area of second language acquisition that the L2 learner's interlanguage has the status of a linguistic system in its own right. Hence, it is characterised by...
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From:Harvard Review (Issue 56)A. The Number Two I've always felt that second place is better, more comfortable than first. I also tend to believe that what's most important, both in books and in life, occurs with staggering frequency in the...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGardner's socio-educational model is the leading theory of motivation in the area of language learning (MacIntyre, 2002). Focusing on integrative motivation (Gu, 2009), it presents a dynamic model in which attitude and...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. The objective of this paper The main line of argument pursued in this paper is the following: the task of acquiring a second language is based on the acquisition of the procedural skills needed for the processing...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Emergence of foreign language teaching policy Systematic attempts to define a national policy of foreign language teaching are of relatively recent origin. The growing need for such a policy is due to a number of...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction "I don't know what you mean!" "I just can't understand you!" As Deborah Tannen (1992) has already illustrated, communication between partners from the same cultural, even from the same social...
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From:Babel (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Premature discontinuation rates among second language students in New Zealand are higher than for most other subjects in secondary schools (McLauchlan, 2006), although this phenomenon has not given rise...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 88, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedWhen he visited the University of Oklahoma in March 2014, Andrés Neuman delivered the following keynote address to an audience that included students from the Norman high schools as well as the campus community and...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction The ability to understand and interpret proverbial sayings has been of great interest to researchers in many areas of psychology and psycholinguistics, attempting to account for the representation and...
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From:Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Issue 65) Peer-ReviewedIt is interesting to note not only Virginia Woolf's own practices of editing and revising, but also her advice on editing to a young Chinese woman writer struggling to write in English. After the death of Julian Bell,...
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From:Portuguese Studies (Vol. 18) Peer-ReviewedIn English, as in Portuguese, the symbolism and significance of the tongue is patent in the number of idiomatic expressions in which it appears: it can be silver, lost, found, held, bitten, wagged, tied or twisted,...
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From:West Virginia University Philological Papers (Vol. 54) Peer-ReviewedSince 1976, the Department of Foreign Languages has hosted an Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, selected papers from which have been published in the West Virginia University Philological Papers, edited since...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction If a layperson were to be asked to enumerate the most distinguishing features of interaction in the foreign language classroom, he would probably insist on placing the provision of corrective feedback...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 85, Issue 4)MANY LANGUAGES USE SOME FORM of the word mother to refer to a person's first language--la lengua materna, la langue maternelle, Muttersprache-- and rightly so. The first language we learn is generally the one our...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction Contrastive rhetoric is an area of research in second-language acquisition that identifies problems in composition encountered by second-language writers and, by referring to the rhetorical strategies...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe research field of the second language acquisition has been increasingly widened in recent years, and emerged various kinds of new theories. This thesis summarizes foreign and domestic researches' key issues in this...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-Reviewed1. Introduction Recent federal legislation enacted in the United States, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, calls for American students to leave grades 4, 8, and 12 having "demonstrated competence over challenging...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English StudiesPeer-ReviewedAs we consider the mind that acquires a second language -- when we ask what is innate to that mind, or whether we need a specially nativist or a generally nativist theory of second language acquisition (SLA), we must...