Language Users
Attitudes towards code switching among adult mono and multilingual language users
... foreign language users in their country of origin? Pena (2004) showed that the attitudes of her first and second-generation Galicians in London towards CS were quite ...
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Primary non-communicable disease prevention and communication barriers of deaf sign language users: a qualitative study
... Sign language emerged as the preferred way of com- munication in all ...sign language users, ranging from complete illiteracy to aca- demic reading and writing skills ...sign language ...
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Second language users’ attitudes towards the ‘correctness’ of global English pronunciations
... second language speakers as this particular group had recently moved to an English-speaking culture that they wanted to integrate into, and displaying a pronunciation difference within their own spoken ...
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Prediction of Language Users Based on Multi factor Analysis
... of language users include the political and economic strength of each region [12][13] , the population [14] , the language audience [15] , immigration rate [16] and the coverage rate of the use of ...
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THE CONSTRUCTION AND ACTIVATION OF LANGUAGE USERS' BACKGROUND SCHEMATA IN MEDICAL DOMAIN DISCOURSE
... by language learners, who seek to comprehensively use their language, according to CEFR, include the following: whether or not one can predict the domains in which they are going to operate; what knowledge ...
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Real Language Users
... native users of the same language, many of his followers have taken ideal and real language users to be the same (see Ney, 1993) with the only difference being that real language ...
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Autonomous language learning on Twitter: Performing affiliation with target language users through #hashtags
... second language experiences play an important role ...second language learning process, Spanish in this ...target language, my level of Spanish was an early stage of pre- intermediate level, which ...
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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users
... Perhaps partly to mitigate the risk of negative evaluations of FA speech, L2 speakers often aspire to native-standards of speech (Derwing, 2003; Sasayama, 2013). Many tried and failed, such as Teresa Desiderio who ...
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A Web based English Proofing System for English as a Second Language Users
... Second Language (ESL) users presents a major challenge: ESL writ- ing errors vary greatly among users with different language backgrounds and proficiency ...
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BiBiKit - A Bilingual Bimodal Reading and Writing Tool for Sign Language Users
... The users found the interface simple and user- ...sign language is the source language and the important aspect of a continued availability of the learning material and the possibility for ...
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Deficits in narrative abilities in child British Sign Language users with specific language impairment
... The production of connected sentences has been seen as a reliable marker of SLI in several languages, including among children who are deaf (Mason et al., 2010). Narratives have two levels of structure that children need ...
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Text Modification for Bulgarian Sign Language Users
... pendent language, a sign language affects the way in which its users conceptualize the world, accord- ing to the principle of linguistic relativity, first for- mulated by Sapir and Whorf (Lee, ...
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Learner-Users Perceptions: Language Learning Affordances and Limitations of Social Networking Tools
... Later, Van (2004) suggested the term of ―affordance‖ is defined as the ―relations‖, ―possibility‖, ―opportunity‖, ―immediacy‖ and ―interaction‘ (p. 91). This author explains that ―it is action in potential and it emerges ...
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Interactional Competence and SLA: A Systems-Thinking Perspective
... L2 language users must be capable of attending to the local situation, attaining shared understanding, making meaning clarifications, mending communication failures, and the ...
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Paradigm Consistency and the Depiction of Stiltedness: The Case of than I versus than me
... Wallraff’s example of potential ambiguity was I like her bet- ter than him, and for this carefully selected example and with parallel use of object pronouns lined up, 92.3% indeed selected the interpretation I like her ...
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Educational Library and Communication Services Provision to the Deaf and Hearing Impaired Patrons in Nigerian Libraries
... sign language users; users of native sign language and written language of the general public; moralists; late-deafened adults; hearing impaired elderly people; minimal language ...
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An Ontology for Language Service Composability
... to users’ ...service users need more detailed information of morphological analysis services, a new one may be ...which language services are compatible with the existing ...of language ...
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Users and Data: The Two Neglected Children of Bilingual Natural Language Processing Research
... I submit that this limited adoption of new re- sources and technologies is due to the conjunc- tion of two factors: the overall lack of concern for actual users, and the clear preference of the research community ...
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The Users Who Say ‘Ni’: Audience Identification in Chinese language Restaurant Reviews
... Finally, this work challenges prior claims that spoken language is “more complex” than other genres with regards to referentiality. On the con- trary: whereas in a spoken discourse the poten- tial addressees are ...
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Accuracy of the Parsing of Lithuanian Simple Sentences
... Statistical machine translation does not give as good results for the highly inflected languages, as for the English-French languages the case is. English and French languages are similar in their structure. Word order ...
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