The present study investigated differential effect of two types of feedback namely, computer-mediated and metalinguistic, on Iranian EFL learners’ writing accuracy. To this end, based on Nelson Proficiency Test (300 A), 69 Iranian advanced EFL learners, including 45 males and 24 females, aged between 17 and 24, learning English in language institutes in Salmas, were selected randomly out of the...

This study compared sentence acceptability judgments from young and healthy older adults and older adults with dementia due to probable Alzheimer's disease. Two types of sentences were contrasted: one type involved contrasts among verb alternations in which semantic distinctions between verbs regulate the acceptability of phrase structure variations; the second type involved contrasts among dir...

Jacques Mehler Laboratoirc de Science Cognitiv e et Psycho linguistique . CN RS-EHESS Paris France Generally, studies of speech recognitio n are related to theories of performance while studies of awareness are thought to bear upon language competence. In our concept ion, both area s or resea rch contribute to our unders tandlng of processing and of the represeetanons that the subjeds use when ...

This qualitative study examines the indexical nature of given names and their role in self-positioning within diverse social contexts. The centers on pronunciation Hispanic United States. analysis is grounded interviews with six young adults who recognize that have Spanish English variants, it demonstrates bearers’ phonological awareness plays a critical distinguishing name variants mispronunci...

Abstract The study examines the stylistic variation (interview vs. passage-reading) of socially meaningful variables among orally educated deaf speakers Mandarin in Taipei, Taiwan. I examine use retroflex and alveolar fricatives across two groups: persons who received speech therapy or training, those did not receive medicalization. groups acquire metalinguistic awareness sibilant different way...

Abstract In adult learners’ collaborative dialogue, oral+written tasks have been found to promote a greater incidence and resolution of language-related episodes demand higher levels accuracy than oral thanks the extra time learners reflect on their written outcome. No previous studies tested whether asking attend in both modalities would yield similar results. The present study with 23 dyads y...

Abstract While ancient metalinguistic resources such as lexica and scholia are increasingly studied in the field of scholarship (Montanari 2020), they investigated less within historical sociolinguistics Ancient Greek. Analysing Atticist by Phrynichus, Moeris Aelius Dionysius, this article illustrates historically persistent connection between social perception diachronic change Although releva...

The paper presents an explorative study regarding the relation between multilingual pedagogies and language aptitude, a complex construct associated with metalinguistic awareness cognitive processes, which predict capacity of learning foreign language. We administered LLAMA test to 67 lower secondary school students in Italy, divided into two groups: target group had been regularly exposed évei...

The Role of the ‘Feedback’ Function in Moodle Activities. development online language teaching has accelerated over last few years, and there is now an increasingly urgent need to deepen our knowledge functions available platforms. aim this presentation highlight potential function provided by platform. contribution deals with Italian courses offered Language Centre University Perugia, a view s...