Native-speakers
Native speakers’ assessment of (im)politeness of non-native speakers’ requests
... Native speakers' assessment of (im)politeness of non-native speakers' requests The common feature of all the above requests is the use of the downgrader ...the speakers have employed it ...
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A study on metadiscoursive interaction in the doctoral dissertations of the native speakers of English and the Turkish speakers of English
... Turkish speakers (TSs) of English used a wide variety of transition markers (TMs) in their doctoral dissertations’ (PhD) three sections; including the introduction, results and discussion, and conclusion ...the ...
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Speech Act of Greeting for American Native Speakers of English and Saudi Native Speakers of Arabic: A Comparative Study
... and a classmate at the same time after a week. A higher level of similarity was found in the overall speech acts of both the English and Arabic native speakers. The usage of greet- ing strategies was common ...
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Politeness in Iranian Native Speakers’ Interactions
... Iranian native speakers from the south of Iran in order to investigate the extent of politeness in their ...Iranian native speakers’ speeches were polite and the participants used negative and ...
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Vous or tu? Native and non native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope
... of native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) combining the independent effects of endogeneous variables ...non native speaker, younger and lower in social ...
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Reliable Lexical Simplification for Non Native Speakers
... Lexical Simplification is the task of modifying the lexical content of complex sentences in or- der to make them simpler. Due to the lack of reliable resources available for the task, most existing approaches have ...
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Japanese Lexical Simplification for Non Native Speakers
... According to the statistical data collected by Ministry of Justice, there are about two million foreigners living in Japan today. Around half of them do not have Japanese proficiency. It has been a problem for foreigners ...
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A study on metadiscoursive interaction in the MA theses of the native speakers of English and the Turkish speakers of English
... This study has been conducted to evaluate the TM usage in the MA theses written by the native speakers (NSs) of English and the Turkish speakers (TSs) of English. The purpose is to compare the TM ...
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A Genre Analysis of Research Article Abstracts Written by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
... Research articles is the one of the most widely studied genres in academic writing. Prior studies in this field have examined the organizational patterns of RA sections. The preliminary concern of these studies was the ...
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Real-time grammar processing by native and non-native speakers : constructions unique to the second language
... L2 speakers appear able to engage in incremental processing, and furthermore utilise morpho-syntactic cues unique to the L2, this is not to say that there is no cost to L2 ...Non-native speakers are ...
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A Comparative Study of the Use of Disagreement Strategies Among Iranian EFL Learners and Native Speakers of English
... English native speakers in terms of the pattern of using different disagreement strategies in relation to people with different social power ...30 native English speakers, and 30 native ...
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Compliment and Compliment Responses: A Comparative Study between Dari and English Native Speakers
... and native English ...by native English speakers contained 50% acceptance, 45% percent mitigation and 3% rejection while the compliment responses produced by Syrians contained 67% acceptance, 33% ...
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Proficient beyond borders: assessing non-native speakers in a native speakers’ framework
... The CEFR is a popular basis for standard-setting procedures such as the one con- ducted for German NA. But how do we know if and when to call EFL learning effective? What are reasonable expectations for English language ...
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Infants’ preferences for native speakers are associated with an expectation of information
... or native language, yet the function of this selectivity remains ...for native speakers, and propose that this preference may result from infants’ motivation to obtain information, and the ...
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Native speakers as documenters: a student initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
... Fitzgerald, Colleen M. and Miguel, Phillip L. Forthcoming. ”Contemporary storytelling in Tohono O’odham.” In Inside Dazzling Mountains: Contemporary Translations of South- west Native Verbal Arts, David Kozak ...
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Referential choice by native speakers and learners of Japanese
... 1-6 Simplification and referential management 2 5 7 CHAPTER 2: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 2-1 Referential choice in language 2-1-1 Universal principles of referential choice 9 2-1-2 Language[r] ...
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Perceptions of Punctuation: a study into the interpretation of punctuation by native and non-native speakers of English in WhatsApp
... The introduction of the internet, text messaging, and later worldwide adoption of apps have caused a rise in text-based communication. With the advent of smartphones and flat-rate tariffs for sending messages, ...
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Neural Machine Translation of Text from Non Native Speakers
... To our knowledge, there are five publicly available corpora of non-native English that are annotated with corrections, which have been widely used for research in Grammar Error Correction (GEC). The NUS Corpus of ...
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A COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE PROCESSING IN NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH
... These mental operations or processes which rely upon the learner's past experience with the language, accounted for much of the difference between the native and the non-native speake[r] ...
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