Adults and 12-month-old infants recognize that even unfamiliar speech can communicate information between third parties, suggesting that they can separate the communicative function of speech from its lexical content. But do infants recognize that speech can communicate due to their experience understanding and producing language, or do they appreciate that speech is communicative earlier, with...

Abstract Although globalization processes have brought the world closer through exchange of knowledge, ideas and practices, advances in knowledge dissemination not been mirrored by expansion sites modes production. This article probes this disjuncture asks how deglobalization might chart different pathways delving into intellectual history making International Relations (IR). Focusing its gaze ...

This article examines the effects of synonymy (i.e., learning words with and without high-frequency synonyms that were known to the learners) on word knowledge in a study of 84 Japanese students learning English. It employed 10 tests measuring 5 aspects of word knowledge (orthography, paradigmatic association, syntagmatic association, meaning and form, and grammatical functions) to assess learn...

The problem of study dealt with two aspects of children's language knowledge and Children's uses of pictures and objects when demonstrating . 4 their language skills. Forty-eight 4-and 5-year-olds wee, randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups, matched for SES, sex, and age. Subjects were individually tested with one of the four measures: language comprehension using objeCt stimuli; com...

Collocational competence is of critical importance to EFL learners’ language proficiency. Due limited research on L1 influence L2 development receptive and productive knowledge adjective + noun collocations, especially in the context Vietnam, this study an attempt address these gaps by investigating whether Vietnamese learners could recognize use congruent English collocations more accurately t...