Portuguese as a Second Language (PSL)
The psychosocial predisposition effects in second language learning: motivational profile in Portuguese and Catalan samples
... the Portuguese immigrants, the profile is distinct, especially in respect of ...a second language (Factor I of the scale of Motivation and Attitudes), it is the group of individuals born in the Asian ...
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Outcomes and Errors of Teaching Practices: Disproportionate Performance Among Learners in Portuguese as a Second Language.
... English Second Language teaching context, the implications of that approach were been examined but still not well documented for the contexts of second languages other than ...of Portuguese as ...
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Learning Portuguese as a Second Language.
... schools the protagonists in controlling differences in academic performance and cognitive development of their new generation of students (Borgna & Contini, 2014; Entorf & Minoiu, 2005). As protagonists, schools ...
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Forward and backward anaphora resolution in European Portuguese and Chinese: syntatic properties and second language acquisition
... subject language, its interpretation of overt pronouns in forward anaphora is different from ...target language? Another factor that should be taken into consideration is the level of the L2 ...
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Measures of Educational Guidance: The assessment of Sensory Preferences for Learners of Portuguese as Second Language
... The learning styles develop and transfer between them, constituting themselves as well as processes once they are subject to the development phases, caused mainly by the age advance. Sociological, motivational elements, ...
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Speech Processing and Intelligent Assessment in Second Language: Struggling Immigrant Students and Home Language Parallel Instruction.
... other second languages, such as English or Chinese, are not the same rules to be adopted in Romance languages like ...of Portuguese L2 learners in order to identify specific traits of written texts and ...
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A Portuguese Native Language Identification Dataset
... aforementioned Portuguese learner corpora contain very useful data for research, particularly for Native Language Identification (NLI), a task that has received much attention in recent ...native ...
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Assessment effectiveness for second language learners: predictors, reliability and discriminant profiles
... that Portuguese language learners present in second language diagnostic tests, integrating several tasks to ensure enough observations and reliable scores, as well to determine profiles that ...
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The Impact of Bilingualism on Acquiring Second Language Vocabulary: A Case Study
... each language) or a single combined ...a Portuguese-Ukrainian bilingual comes across the Portuguese word “futebol” a Ukrainian word “футбол [fut'bo:l]” will be activated because these two words share ...
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Second language education context and home language effect: language dissimilarities and variation in immigrant students’ outcomes.
... the Portuguese language, in African student speakers of Creole with a Portu- guese lexical ...in Portuguese, because nasality is one of the more dif ficult traits to ...first language with no ...
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Automatic Question Generation for the Portuguese Language
... In addition to analyzing text complexity (as a whole) we also intended to find a way to analyze the difficulty of an individual sentence. We assume that two sentences that belong to the same text do not necessarily have ...
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Second language acquisition in Brazil since the social turn
... the language and socialization or sociocognitive approaches were ...of language and socialization, this lack of studies can probably be explained by the framework’s main focus – at least up to the present ...
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The Teaching and Assessment in Second-Language Context: Assessment of Decoding Differences on Language Speakers.
... The language assessment in second language context is still a gap in Portuguese schools and at research ...in second language ...of Portuguese Second ...
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Portuguese Native Language Identification
... Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of determining the native lan- guage (L1) of an author based on their second language (L2) linguistic produc- tions ...identifying language use ...
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Learning styles and cognitive achievement: the case of second language learners.
... * Age factor has great influence just in the context of native and monolingual subjects, for language learning. However, we must consider that the scale has an index of compromising fidelity (alpha .60), compared ...
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Cognitive differences in second language learners and the critical period effects.
... individuals’ language competence and performance and thus get a better understanding of the phonological routes they ...on language lateralization which relates to L2 ...predict language competence ...
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Cross-cultural adaptation of Preschool Language Assessment Instrument: Second Edition
... Brazilian Portuguese presented an average classiication, expected for English speakers (Figure 2), and that a peak of normality could also be observed despite the fact that the sample group had fewer participants ...
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Second Language Writing System Word Recognition (with a focus on Lao)
... As closely related members of the Tai-Kadai language family, Lao and Thai have similar lexicons and grammatical structure. As de- scribed by Enfield (1999), “Lao and Thai share extensive vocabu- lary…have very ...
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Conversational competence in english as a second language : a study of pragmatic markers
... a language institute in the South of Brazil between the second semester of 2012 and the second semenster of ...of language so as to have their speaking ability assessed in four analytical ...
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Portuguese language identity in the world: adventures and misadventures of an international language
... the Portuguese language is dramatically increasing, because it is felt and thought by the (middle class) population as the language of culture and power, and the lingua franca for communication in ...
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