Background As the Final Report of the Language Education Review highlights, students’ low level of English proficiency seriously affects learning in Hong Kong’s tertiary institutions and hinders students’ potential to fully benefit from English-medium education. This problem is especially serious in self-funded degree programmes, as the students admitted onto these programmes very rarely have s...

OBJECTIVE The main objective was to investigate the effect of linguistic abilities (lexical-access ability and vocabulary size) on different measures of speech-in-noise recognition in normal-hearing listeners with various levels of language proficiency. DESIGN Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured for sentences in steady-state (SRTstat) and fluctuating noise (SRTfluc), and for digi...

This study examined the capacity of text-based online chat to promote learners’ noticing of their problematic language productions and of the interactional feedback from their interlocutors. In this study, twelve ESL learners formed six mixed-proficiency dyads. The same dyads worked on two spot-thedifference tasks, one via online chat and the other through face-to-face conversation. Stimulated ...

We examine how language acquisition affects immigrant earnings growth for Soviet immigrants to Israel. Using retrospective information on linguistic proficiency to control for time-invariant heterogeneity in ability reveals that language complements high-skill occupations. Improved Hebrew accounts for 2/3 to 3/4 of the differential in earnings growth between immigrant and native programmers and...

We consider a linguistically diversified society and examine the notion of language disenfranchisement when some individuals are denied the full access to documents and political process in their native tongues. To calculate the disenfranchisement indices we use the Dyen percentage cognate matrix of linguistic distances between Indo-European languages and apply survey and population data on lan...

This paper presents example-based machine translation architecture using translation memory that integrates the use of examples for flexible, idiomatic translations with the use of linguistic rules for broad coverage and grammatical accuracy. In examplebased machine translation (EBMT) approach to machine translation is often characterized by its use of a bilingual corpus with parallel texts as ...

Native Language Identification (NLI) is a task aimed at determining the native language (L1) of learners of second language (L2) on the basis of their written texts. To date, research on NLI has focused on relatively small corpora. We apply NLI to the recently released EFCamDat corpus which is not only multiple times larger than previous L2 corpora but also provides longitudinal data at several...

This paper examines students’ perspectives on the challenges raised by their first encounter with EMI pedagogy in higher education. The research was conducted a group of beginner students no previous experience monolingual instruction English. case studied is based two English Cultural Studies subject courses Program at Spanish university and taught learning environment total linguistic immersi...

In Pakistani corporate set-ups, proficiency in English is taken as competence communication; other important aspects of communicative are overlooked. The research carried out so far from the point view Management and Organizational Behavior none linguistic perspective. current study an attempt to find relationship between capital part Communicative Competence employees' job performance via sati...

The study determined the attitudes toward English language, general proficiency level of 60 selected first-year college students, language structure, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. This was conducted to solve current issues comprehension difficulties poor linguistic competence in subjects. It utilized descriptive research. Findings revealed “zero highly unfavorable” towards English; 2 “...