Grammar errors in the writing of Iraqi English language learners

YBJ Al-Shujairi, H Tan - International Journal of Education and …, 2017 - journals.aiac.org.au
Several studies have been conducted to investigate the grammatical errors of Iraqi
postgraduates and undergraduates in their academic writing. However, few studies have …

Conceptualising English as a global contact language

T Ishikawa - Englishes in Practice, 2017 - sciendo.com
Abstract English as a global contact language has been conceptualised as (1) geo-localised
Englishes,(2) English similects, and (3) transcultural multi-lingua franca. Although taking a …

When the end matters: influence of gender cues during agreement computation in bilinguals

S Caffarra, H Barber, N Molinaro… - Language, Cognition …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The present event-related potential (ERP) study was aimed at testing whether form-function
mappings can differently affect sentence comprehension in early bilinguals with a range of …

Adapting to learner errors with minimal supervision

A Rozovskaya, D Roth, M Sammons - Computational Linguistics, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
This article considers the problem of correcting errors made by English as a Second
Language writers from a machine learning perspective, and addresses an important issue of …

World Englishes and language ideologies

RM Bhatt - The Oxford handbook of world Englishes, 2017 - books.google.com
This chapter explores language ideologies that inform English language variation and
change, within the perspective of World Englishes. Studies in World Englishes have …

Anaphora in the interlanguage of English and Greek learners of L2 Spanish: A study based on the CEDEL2 corpus

A Georgopoulos - 2017 - digibug.ugr.es
This thesis aims to explore the anaphoric 3rd person subject usage in the interlanguage of
English and Greek learners of L2 Spanish at various proficiency levels. In addition, this study …

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON NEGATIVE TRANSFER IN VIETNAMESE TERTIARY EFL LEARNERS'ENGLISH WRITING

D Van Vu - Journal of Teaching English for Specific and …, 2017 - espeap.junis.ni.ac.rs
The question of whether the first language (L1) has any effects on foreign/second language
(L2) acquisition has attracted the curiosity of numerous linguists as well as language …

The interpretation of plural morphology and (non-) obligatory number marking: An argument from artificial language learning

A Liter, CC Heffner, C Schmitt - Language Learning and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We present an artificial language experiment investigating (i) how speakers of languages
such as English with two-way obligatory distinctions between singular and plural learn a …

Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in late bilingualism: Evidence from the container-content relation

M Azaz, J Frank - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2017 - jbe-platform.com
The container-content relation represents a set of nominal configurations unexplored in the
acquisition literature. Whereas in English the switch from a noun-noun compound (water …

Maîtrise de la littératie académique en français chez de futurs enseignants de français langue étrangère: Étude comparative d'étudiants en formation initiale de …

A Ruyffelaert - 2017 - digibug.ugr.es
Ces dernières décennies, l'Union européenne a lancé toute une série d'initiatives, de
résolutions, projets, programmes et publications visant à promouvoir l'enseignement et …