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Exploring the interplay between writing feedback perception and Lexical Complexity among Chinese University students: a latent Profile Analysis and Retrodictive qualitative modeling study
Within the context of Chinese university education, effective communication in the field of second language writing heavily relies on lexical...
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Exploring reading profiles of rural school students
This study investigates the reading profiles of rural Grade 5 and 6 students ( N = 262), a sample with a high proportion of English language learners....
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Specific predictors of length and frequency effects in German beginning readers: testing component processes of sublexical and lexical reading in the DRC
Reading a word requires several component processes. The dual route cascaded (DRC) model provides a characterization of these component processes and...
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The lexical status of verbs among typical and dyslexic native Arabic readers: a developmental model
The goal of this study was to investigate the development of mental lexicon organization among typical and dyslexic native Arabic readers. The...
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Lexical Profiles of Student Academic Presentations
Some of the main functions of speech adjustment are to manage comprehension and accessibility of information in order to lighten listeners’...
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The different linguistic profiles in Arabic speaking kindergarteners and relation to emergent literacy
Exploring the relationships between different linguistic skills is essential for linguistics and interventional studies on language disorders. This...
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Understanding the Continuum of Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and Communication Profiles in Its Context
This chapter provides an overview of the DAT continuum and offers different conceptualizations of Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and its...
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First-grade multilingual students’ executive function profiles and links to English reading achievement and difficulties: a person-centered latent profile analysis
Although the important role of children’s executive function (EF) in their reading development has been well-established, less is known about the...
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Tracking reading skills and reading-related skills in dyslexia before (age 5) and after (ages 10–17) diagnosis
This study had three goals: to examine the stability of deficits in the phonological and lexical routes in dyslexia (group study), to determine the...
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The cognitive-linguistic profiles and academic performances of Chinese children with dyslexia across cultures: Bei**g, Hong Kong, and Taipei
This study examined the cognitive-linguistic and literacy-related correlates of dyslexia in three Chinese cities and the English word reading and...
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Metadiscursive Activities in Oral Discourse Production in L2 French: A Study on Learner Profiles
This study explores the use of discourse markers (DMs) in metadiscursive activities such as word searches, repairs or metalinguistic evaluations that...
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Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison
French liaison is a type of external sandhi involving the use of a special consonant-final allomorph before vowel-initial words. Consonants occurring...
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Normalization, Motivation, and Reception: A Corpus-Based Lexical Study of the Four English Translations of Louis Cha’s Martial Arts Fiction
Combining both qualitative and quantitative methods in the research design, the present study examines the normalizing tendencies in the translations...
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Phonological syllables allow children with developmental dyslexia to access words
Learning to read is a middle-distance race for children worldwide. Most of them succeed in this acquisition with “normal” difficulties that ensue...
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No tense: temporality in the grammar of Paraguayan Guarani
Paraguayan Guarani does not overtly mark tense in its inflectional system. Prior accounts of languages without obligatory morphological tense have...
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Exploring reading-writing connections in native English speakers and English language learners
In the present study, we aimed to compare reading-writing relations between first-grade Native English Speakers (NESs) and English Language Learners...
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Spelling as a way to classify poor Chinese-English literacy skills in Hong Kong Chinese children
Previous work has predominantly focused on word reading in studying literacy difficulties; very little work has focused on spelling difficulty...
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Semantic Annotation and Mandarin VerbNet
This chapter will examine the challenging issues in the semantic annotation of verbal information in Mandarin Chinese. It will also probe into the...
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The Role of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Nauigations (1589) in the Introduction and Dissemination of Spanish Loanwords in the English Language
Richard Hakluyt’s Principall Nauigations (1589) was a landmark in the history of English travel literature which compiled and glorified the naval...
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Errors in foreign language acquisition as a multifaceted phenomenon: the case of Russian aspect
We study factors influencing aspectual errors in written texts of advanced learners of Russian with dominant English. Our study is based on the data...