O objetivo desta investigação é propor um quadro teórico-prático para determinar o perfil das competências de literacia académica bilingue (Português/Inglês) dos graduandos e futuros profissionais em ensino da língua inglesa no Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação da Huíla…
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The current study quantitatively and qualitatively investigated Spanish maintenance among 45 Spanish heritage language (SHL) speakers in Utah who completed a survey about their linguistic background, their attitudes toward Spanish, their self-rated Spanish proficiency, and their…
The incorporation of empirical and theoretical knowledge from the language acquisition literature into formal diachronic syntax has been largely exiguous despite the growth of the latter as a subfield in formal linguistics over the past thirty years. In this dissertation, it is …
Long-term contact between Hindi and Marathi in Nagpur, India has led to extensive transfer of linguistic features in both directions (Hindi to Marathi and Marathi to Hindi), leading to the formation of two contact varieties, Nagpuri Hindi and Nagpuri Marathi. This thesis investi…
Many elementary school children, including English language learners (ELLs), are in self-contained classrooms with only one teacher. The challenge for teachers is to meet the needs of all students in one learning environment with limited training. The relationship between teache…
This dissertation treats the development of functional categories in early child grammar. Based on early child English data which lack functional elements such as verb inflections, complementizers, and (in) definite articles, Radford (1990) among others claimed that functional c…
This dissertation investigates the relation between the functional heads TP and AgrP and the use of overt and covert subjects across languages. This relation is first accounted for in Modern Hebrew, where both subject options are attested in different tense-person contexts. In a…
Studies of Russian, Polish, and Lithuanian language learners converge on the finding that morphological features of nouns are first generalized to word clusters of high morpho-phonological similarities such as diminutives, that grammatical categorisation is are more easily appli…
Motivation is the driving force behind successful learning. It is especially crucial in a curriculum area such as foreign language study. This investigation aims to explore the motivational role of the central teaching and learning resource used in schools - the coursebook. The …
This thesis investigates the evolution of two very different complex systems using network theory. This multi-disciplinary technique is widely used to model and analyse vastly diverse systems of multiple interacting components, and therefore, it is applied in this thesis to stud…
Yabancı dil eğitimi okullarda çeşitli ders kitaplarıyla yapılmaktadır. Bu kitaplar yabancı dil öğreniminin en önemli kaynaklarıdır. Seçilen ders kitapları yabancı dili çocuklara öğretmede oldukça büyük önem taşımaktadır ayrıca öğretmene ve öğrenciye kılavuz olarak yabancı dilin …
One of the notable developments in current natural language processing is the practical efficacy of probabilistic word representations, where words are embedded in high-dimensional continuous vector spaces that are optimized to reflect their distributional relationships. For seq…
Every difference between languages is a "choice point" for the syntactician, psycholinguist, and language learner. The syntactician must describe the differences in representations that the grammars of different languages can assign. The psycholinguist must describe how the comp…
This dissertation is a combination of ethnography and case study which describes the social and cultural context of literacy acquisition among Arab students at the University of Arkansas. I examine the power relations that define this minority group in the larger social context …
This study aims to investigate the developmental ability of beginning and advance L1 English learners of Arabic to pronounce standard Arabic geminate consonants when enrolled in a full time L2 program. The results showed that English learners produced shorter closure duration wh…
This investigation follows the development of negation of a Najdi speaking child. Previous negation studies have treated negation as one unit (NEG) regardless of its form in the adult language (no and not ). This investigation provides a syntactic account of negation in Najdi in…
This dissertation concerns the acquisition of the interaction between lexicosemantic properties of verbs and syntax, focusing on symmetrical and asymmetrical verbs in different syntactic structures. Based on linguistic evidence, it is shown that two conceptual categories, Mutual…
Studies of spoken Arabic language comprehension in children are few. This research obtained data on the developmental patterns, rate and order of acquisition of the comprehension of some morpho-syntactic structures for Saudi children as a basis for a criterion-referenced test. T…
The main objective of this dissertation is to describe the way the foreigner is linguistically represented in classical Egyptian cinema from its beginning in the 1920s to the mid-1960s and, hence, to determine to what extent this representation is stereotyped. To show this, I ca…