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Passive vocabulary size and speed of meaning recognition: are they related? 被动词汇量与意义识别速度:是否相关?

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 2020-06-25 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.1.05LAU

B. Laufer, P. Nation

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引用次数: 57

A study on explicit instruction and its relation to knowing/using linguistic forms and individual learner readiness 外显教学及其与语言形式的认识/使用和学习者个人准备的关系研究

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 2016-08-10 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.16.05BAT

Kristof Baten

引用次数: 4

Verb morphology in second language versus third language acquisition: The representation of regular and irregular past participles in English-Spanish and Chinese-English-Spanish interlanguages 第二语言动词形态与第三语言习得:英语-西班牙语和汉语-英语-西班牙语中介语中规则和不规则过去分词的表征

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.6.05LEU

Yan-kit Ingrid Leung

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引用次数: 9

Acquisition of English articles in early bilingualism 双语早期英语冠词的习得

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.10.11MED

E. Mede, Ayşe Gürel

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引用次数: 12

Manner and path of motion in descriptions of motion trajectories by Polish L2 users of English 波兰语第二语言英语使用者描述运动轨迹中的运动方式和运动路径

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.15.04EWE

Anna Ewert, Weronika Krzebietke

引用次数: 3

The acquisition of word meanings while reading in English as a foreign language 将英语作为外语阅读时对词义的习得

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.1.06CHO

H. Chodkiewicz

引用次数: 17

Tearing us apart again: The paradigm wars and the search for validity 再次撕裂我们:范式之战和对有效性的追求

Eurosla Yearbook Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EUROSLA.3.13MCN

T. McNamara