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The Effects Of Using Textual Enhancement On Processing And Learning Multiword Expressions, Adel Zain Alshaikhi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are crucial aspects of language use. Second language (L2) learners need to master these MWEs to be able to communicate effectively. In addition, mastering these MWEs helps L2 learners improve their cognitive processing of language input. In this study, my primary objectives were to explore the effectiveness of using Textual Enhancement (TE) to assist L2 speakers’ comprehension of MWEs, to explore whether there is a difference in comprehension between collocations and idioms, and finally, to explore how L2 speakers transact the MWEs’ meanings as presented in texts.

While several researchers have explored how input enhancement in general …

The Cognitive Effects Of Late Bilingualism On Executive Functions: Lifelong Benefits, Rachel Casper

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Late bilinguals, those who learn a language past the critical period, are often thought to not receive much benefits from their language learning in comparison to their early bilingual counterparts. A large of body of recent research suggests otherwise. Late bilinguals receive the same cognitive benefits as early bilinguals; these benefits are in higher levels of executive functions, specifically in inhibitory control and attentional switching. Higher levels of executive functions assist learners in improving their mental processing and cognitive health over the course of their lifetime. Aging bilinguals have greater cognitive health due to more white and gray matter density. …

Massively Multiplayer Online Gamers’ Language: Argument For An M-Gamer Corpus, Papia Bawa

The Qualitative Report

The past few decades have seen a steady, and sometimes rapid rise in the production and consumption of Massively Multiple Online Games (MMOGs), spanning a global arena. Players from a wide variety of demographical, economic, geographical, cultural and linguistic backgrounds congregate under the banner of MMOGs and spend a considerable amount of time interacting and communicating with one another, in the context of playing and socializing through such playing. It is only logical then, to see such players become part of larger and extended socio-communal landscapes, wherein they may appropriate multiple roles in conjunction with their MMOG player roles, such …

A Sociophonetic Analysis Of Albuquerque Drag Queens, Lindsay Morrone

Shared Knowledge Conference

Although anyone can be assumed to engage in style-shifting to construct a persona (e.g. Podesva 2007b, Eckert 2008), in the case of drag performers it can be argued that style-shifting results not in an alternate persona but in a performative identity. With this hypothesis in mind, this case study uses a style-shifting paradigm to explore the varying social meanings of phonation type and vowel quality in the construction of a drag queen identity. The speech of two gay male Hispanic drag queens (DQs) from Albuquerque, New Mexico (ABQ) was investigated in various speech situations to identify social meanings indexed by …

The Critical Need For Mental Health Education To Be Mandated In New Mexico's Public Schools, Bonnie L. Murphy

Shared Knowledge Conference

Based on a review of research and best practices in mental health awareness and skills, this inquiry project argues for state legislative policies that would require mental health awareness and skills in the K-12 curriculum. Mental health affects individual accomplishments in every stage of people’s lives beginning in early childhood and throughout the life cycle. Prevention and treatment of mental illness plays a key role in the ability of an individual to cope with loss and develop resiliency and perseverance in challenging times and to make better decisions that improve the individual’s life and the lives of those around them. …

News V. Study: The Facts: Discourse Communities, Hannah Huber

Jessie O'Kelly Freshman Essay Award

A discourse community can best be described as a group of people that all share a common form of communication through certain words and activities. Most people in life are included in multiple discourse communities and, must learn a new set of slang when communicating amongst different groups.

Latinx Children’S Push And Pull Of Spanish Literacy And Translanguaging, Kathy M. Bussert-Webb Dr., Hannah M. Masso Ms., Karin A. Lewis Dr.

The Qualitative Report

We explored 19 Latinx children’s literacies in Spanish and translanguaging by asking, “What are Latinx children’s experiences and beliefs regarding Spanish and translanguaging reading and writing? How do tutorial staff and teacher candidates (TCs) help the youth to resist hegemonic and bracketing practices of English-only?” This study took place in a South Texas tutorial agency, where children voluntarily attended for after-school homework help. Data sources consisted of questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, hobby essays, and newsletter articles. Most children reported negative school-related language experiences and expressed dislike and unease regarding Spanish and translanguaging reading and writing, although they lived less than …

Non-Manual Articulators In Irish Sign Language Verbs: An Analysis With Data Mining Association Rules, Robert G. Smith, Markus Hofmann

Conference Papers

The Signs of Ireland (SOI) corpus (Leeson et al., 2006) deploys a complex multi-tiered temporal data structure. The process of manually analyzing such data is laborious, cannot eliminate bias and often, important patterns can go completely unnoticed. In addition to this, as a result of the complex nature of grammatical structures contained in the corpus, identifying complex linguistic associations or patterns across tiers is simply too intricate a task for a human to carry out in an acceptable timeframe. This work explores the application of data mining techniques on a set of multi-tiered temporal data from the SOI corpus. Building …

Second Language Semantic Retrieval In The Bilingual Mind: The Case Of Korean-English Expert Bilinguals, Janice Si-Man Lam

Theses and Dissertations

The present study aims to explore the relationship between proficiency level and semantic retrieval in the second language. A group of Korean bilinguals who speak English with high proficiency performed semantic relatedness judgement tasks of two hundred English word pairs. Unbeknownst to the participants, half of the words in both the related and the unrelated categories contained a "hidden prime"—a common first syllable shared by the two words, if translated into Korean. Each participant's event-related potential (ERP) was recorded while reading the words. While a former study by Thierry and Wu (2007) found that Chinese-English bilinguals were affected by the …

Selective Stimulability In The Speech And Language Assessment Of Bilingual Children With Selective Mutism, Elizabeth Harbaugh , M.S., Ccc-Slp, Raul F. Prezas , Ph.D., Ccc-Slp, Robin L. Edge , Ph.D., Ccc-Slp

Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice

English Language Learners (ELLs) with Selective Mutism (SM) mirror their typically developing, bilingual peers who are going through the silent period. The silent period is a normal phenomenon characterized by decreased expressive language and a general lack of communication that is temporary. Understanding second language acquisition and differentiating SM from the silent period, however, is critical to reduce over- and under-identification of children for services. Whereas bilingual children with SM do not speak in either of their languages, bilingual children in the silent period are only silent in their second language. Although limited information exists regarding assessment and treatment for …

Genre-Style Update Of Novel, L. Pulatova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article discusses the formation of the Uzbek novel, also the peculiarities of the romance philology of the period of Independence

The Artistic True And Author’S Attitude, Yu. Solijonov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

On the basis of analysis novels “Face to face” and “Jamila” by Chingiz Aitmatov writer’s skill to reveal inner world of the characters’ are uncovered in this article. Search for raising reality of life to artistic reality level is widely studied

Orientalism In Pushkin's Cycle "Imitations Of The Koran", K. Topvoldiev

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

In this article the author reveals the problem of the origin and significance of Orientalism in Russian literature, the connection between East and West. Analyzing Pushkin's "Imitations of the Koran", the author made linguistic conclusions concerning word formation, linguistics and loan-words.

The Symbolism Of Light And Color In A Poetic Text, G. Eskaraeva

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article deals with the questions of symbolism of color and light in a poetic text. It’s considered the language resources as the main means of embodiment of artistic images in fiction and solved one of the manifestations of linguistic features in a literary text – the verbal play of light and color

Stylistics Expressive Speech System, А. Mamajonov,, G. Rozikova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article deals with the division of stylistics, which studies the expressive possibilities of the language, as well as the emotionally expressive function of verbal unity.

Researcher Of Karshi Toponymy, X. Jabborov,, E. Jabborov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

In this article we are talking about the toponyms "Names of streets and makhallas of the city of Karshi", which have a special place in the study of toponymy of Uzbekistan, found in the Dictionary by Nafasov. A scientific evaluation of this work of the scientist devoted to the study of urban toponymy is given

Morphological Ways Of Eхpressing The Verbalizers Of The Conceptual Semantics “Intensification” In Non-Related Languages, A. Ziyaev

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article touches upon the morphological ways of eхpressing the verbalizers of the conceptual macrosemantics of “intensification” established for the first time in Modern English, Uzbek and Russian, which allowed the author to reveal the isomorphic and allomorphic features of the verbalizers and the factors preconditioning the latter

Expression Of Visual Meaning In English, N. Alimboeva

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article entails imitative expressions to sound and state in national linguistic view of the world, agglutinative languages, particularly, wide usage of imitations in Uzbek, flektiv languages, additionally, almost non-existence of imitations as an independent part of speech expressing imitation to sound and state with nouns, adjectives or verbs, derivation of imitation with the above words

Social Environment And Spiritual World Of Teenager In Narrative “Saraton” By N.Fozilov, R. Umurzakov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

In this article the adolescent’s character in the story “Saraton” (“The heat”) by N.Fozilov is analyzed. The literary purpose of writer consists in childhood description, which is contained on the subtext of the story. The common features in this novel with dominating the childhood description are shown.

Historical Facts And Poetic Inventions In Alisher Navoiy’S Creative Work, M. Saidakbarova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article considers artistic interpretation of historical information of A.Navoiy’s creative work in “Hamsa”.

Lyrics Of Farida Afruz, F. Oripjonova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article examines the creative biography of Farida Afruz, also the peculiarities of poems of the poetess. An attempt to explain the genre of “fikhra” and “tasbekh” as genres of artistic lyrics is made.

Linguoculture And Pragmalinguistics Links, U. Umurzakova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

In this article the connected sites of linguaculture and progmalinguistics ”Отамдан қолган далалар” by Tog’ay Murod’s fiction was analyzed

About Some Loan Words In "Hibatul-Haqayiq", L. Sindorov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

In this article semes and etymology of some derived words used in “Hibatul haqoyiq” by Ahmad Yugnakiy are expounded. Lexical items on the derived layer of words in “Hibatul haqoyiq” are comparatively analysed with old Turkic language and the words of Karakhaniy period as well XIV century sources

Using Innovative Technologies In Teaching Literature, D. Xodjimetova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article discusses the issues of using innovative technologies in the study of literature, which is based on the principles of the problem approach to the material under study

Transnational Vietnamese: Language Practices, New Literacies, And Redefinition Of The “American Dream”, Nguyen Dao

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

The research focuses on the transnational literacy and language practices of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Midwestern United States. Drawing upon multiple bodies of contemporary research and conceptual frameworks, this investigation intends to go beyond transnational movements to indicate the complex nature of bi-literate, bilingual and bi-cultural development and the role of national and supranational ideologies, as well as to describe how the Vietnamese diaspora have mobilized their identities and in so doing, redefined the provoking term “the American Dream.”

The Impact Of Stuttering On Development Of Self-Identity, Relationships, And Quality Of Life In Women Who Stutter, Charn Nang, Deborah J. Hersh, Katie Milton, Su Re Lau

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Purpose: The experiences of women who stutter have been underresearched. Clinicians have little guidance from the research literature on issues specific to women who stutter and are likely to have less clinical contact with this group than with men who stutter because of the higher prevalence of stuttering in men. This study explored the experiences of a small group of women who stutter with a particular focus on what the main current issues are and how gender may have influenced experiences with stuttering.

Method: This qualitative study involved recruitment of 9 women who stutter (aged 35-80 years) through a support …

Replacing The Flawed Chevron Standard, Brian G. Slocum

William & Mary Law Review

Judicial review of agency statutory interpretations depends heavily on the linguistic concept of ambiguity. Most significantly, under Chevron, judicial deference to an agency’s interpretation hinges on whether the court determines the statute to be ambiguous. Despite its importance, the ambiguity concept has been poorly developed by courts and deviates in important respects from how linguists approach ambiguity. For instance, courts conflate ambiguity identification and disambiguation and treat ambiguity as an umbrella concept that encompasses distinct forms of linguistic indeterminacy such as vagueness and generality. The resulting ambiguity standard is unpredictable and does not adequately perform its function of mediating between …

Gendered Identity And Investment In Language Learning: A Case Study Of Heritage Spanish Speakers, Farah Ali

Friday Forum

Much of the existing research in second and heritage language acquisition (S/HLA) takes a traditional approach of focusing on the cognitive processes involved in S/HLA, as well as the resulting outcomes. A relatively recent approach that has emerged in S/HLA scholarship, however, relates the learner to the social world in terms of how sociocultural contexts may shape an individual’s language learning experiences and their personal investment in the process. This emergent approach also challenges traditional categorical conceptions of identity, positing that it is dynamic, fluid, constructed, and negotiated in social contexts. Following this approach, my objective is to demonstrate how …

Multilingualism In Counselor Education And Human Services Professionals: Implications For A New Training Paradigm, Roberto Swazo, Dorota Celinska

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

This study analyzes the relationships among the three distinct levels of language and cultural-linguistic professional competences. A total of 483 participants from three U.S. and one Central American university representing the fields of counseling, social work, family services, and psychology were surveyed. The results suggest that there is a large multilingual training deficit among human service providers in the U.S. Training programs need to make curricular revisions to include bi/multilingual training consistent with multilingual clientele. Recommendations for culturally-embedded and non-native language use are provided to increase cultural-linguistic competences among counselor education trainees.

White-Identifying Populations' Perceptions Of Muslims In The United Kingdom And United States, Ashley Gilliam

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Much of Western society is engaging with complex ideas and events such as multiculturalism, immigration, assimilation, and terrorism. The United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) are relevant to this larger discussion considering the 2016 finalization of the ‘Brexit’ decision to leave the European Union and the recent travel restriction policies in the US targeting some countries with Islam as majority religious affiliation. Given these events, my larger research question addresses how majority populations view minority groups. Several studies have provided a view of how Muslims in the West form their own identities (Hopkins, 2011; Modood & Ahmad, 2007; …