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Relative difficulty of understanding foreign accents as a marker of proficiency
Foreign accent L2 learners
2017/8/30
Foreign-accented speech is generally harder to understand than native-accented speech. This difficulty is reduced for non-native listeners who share their first language with the non-native speaker. I...
Validity and Reliability Issues in the Large-Scale Assessment of English Language Proficiency
Validity Reliability Issues Large-Scale Assessment English Language Proficiency
2016/1/20
Validity and Reliability Issues in the Large-Scale Assessment of English Language Proficiency.
L2-Proficiency-Dependent Laterality Shift in Structural Connectivity of Brain Language Pathways
arcuate fasciculus brain lateralization diffusion tensor imaging
2015/12/21
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and a longitudinal language learning approach were applied to investigate the
relationship between the achieved second language (L2) proficiency during L2 learnin...
Word reading skill predicts anticipation of upcoming spoken language input: A study of children developing proficiency in reading
Anticipatory looking Literacy Reading Speech processing Orthographical representations Language Acquisition
2015/5/5
Despite the efficiency with which language users typically process spoken language, a growing body of research finds substantial individual differences in both the speed and accuracy of spoken languag...
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
Spoken Communication Interpersonal Communication Globalized Firms and Management Groups and Teams Behavior Emotions Social and Collaborative Networks
2015/4/23
In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, ...
How to Make L2 Easier to Process? The Role of L2 Proficiency and Semantic Category in Translation Priming
L2 proficiency cross-script translation priming priming asymmetry Chinese-English bilinguals the bilingual lexicon
2016/5/3
The current study reports four masked translation priming experiments and demonstrates that L2 proficiency plays a role in translation priming but it is not the only factor determining translation pri...
Garnering Transit Ridership: A Case Study of Transit Use by Refugee and Limited English Proficiency Groups in Manchester, New Hamsphire
Public transportation Immigrants Focus groups
2014/11/11
Public transportation ridership levels have decreased since the end of World War II. Transit systems in small cities struggle to maintain ridership levels high enough to continue receiving local subsi...
Analysis of Moisture Content (Oven Volatiles) of Smokeless Tobacco Products 2010 Collaborative and Proficiency Studies
Analysis of Moisture Content Smokeless Tobacco Products
2014/6/3
In 2010, the CORESTA Smokeless Tobacco Sub-Group conducted a collaborative study that
included the four CORESTA Reference Products (CRPs) and five commercial smokeless
tobacco products. This st...
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Soviet Jews immigrants earnings schooling English language proficiency American Community Survey
2012/10/22
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadva...
From Face-to-Face to Paired Oral Proficiency Interviews:The Nut is Yet to be Cracked
Contingency Face-to-face/Individual OPI Oral proficiency interview Paired OPI
2011/6/24
The pressing need for English oral communication skills in multifarious contexts today is compelling impetus
behind the large number of studies done on oral proficiency interviewing. Moreover, given ...
A Study on the Relationship between University Students’ Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency
Chinese writing proficiency Positive transfer English writing proficiency
2011/6/24
Up to now, most researchers have been paying attention to the negative transfer of mother tongue to second
language writing. Few studies, if any, have touched upon the positive transfer. Therefore, t...
The Effects of Planning on Writing Narrative Task Performance with Low and High EFL Proficiency
Task Planning Proficiency Concept Load Fluency Complexity Accuracy Writing Performance
2011/6/23
The impetus of the present study was to scrutinize the impact of planning and proficiency on 172 EFL learners’
written task performance regarding concept load, fluency, complexity and accuracy. Plann...
The Relationship between Listening Strategies Used by Iranian EFL Freshman University Students and Their Listening Proficiency Levels
Listening strategy use Listening proficiency levels EFL Freshman students
2011/6/23
The purpose of the current study was to identify Iranian EFL freshman university students’ listening proficiency
levels and the listening strategies they employed to investigate the relationship betw...
Deaf Individuals’ Bilingual Abilities: American Sign Language Proficiency, Reading Skills, and Family Characteristics
Deaf, American Sign Language, Reading, Bilingual, Family
2013/2/21
The current study investigated the bilingual abilities of 55 Deaf individuals, examining both American Sign Language (ASL) competency and English reading skills. Results revealed a positive relationsh...
Sociolinguistic Competence and Malaysian Students’ English Language Proficiency
Socio-cultural rules Sociolinguistic competence Formal language Colloquialism
2011/6/22
This paper aims to highlight the importance of teaching sociolinguistic competence to ESL learners in Malaysian
schools. Sociolinguistic competence is the knowledge of socio cultural rules of languag...