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The effectiveness of processing instruction and production-based instruction on the acquisition of the past tense in Greek by child heritage learners: A preliminary study

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100207

Panagiota-Aikaterini Ouli , Irini Konta

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Metalinguistic awareness in L2 Italian children with a migrant background: A trade-off between cognitive advantages and syntactic vulnerabilities 具有移民背景的意大利语第二语言儿童的金属语言意识：认知优势与句法弱点之间的权衡

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100208

Francesca Festi, Maria Vender

{"title":"Metalinguistic awareness in L2 Italian children with a migrant background: A trade-off between cognitive advantages and syntactic vulnerabilities","authors":"Francesca Festi, Maria Vender","doi":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100208","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Metalinguistic awareness is a domain where bilingual advantages have been reported, with bilinguals outperforming monolinguals in tasks that require separating syntactic form from semantic content, demonstrating higher selective attention, interference suppression, and inhibition skills (Adesope et al., 2010). However, these cognitive advantages may be counterbalanced by weaknesses in specific linguistic domains, such as morphosyntactic processing. This study investigates the presence of such trade-offs in a Sentence-Judgment Task adapted from Bialystok (1986) in which monolinguals and bilinguals are compared in their ability to judge syntactically well-formed and ungrammatical utterances, regardless of their meaning.</div><div>We assessed 80 school-aged children, including 36 Italian monolinguals and 44 bilinguals with Italian as a second language, using a task that involved 48 sentences varying in syntactic accuracy and semantic congruency across four conditions. Results from mixed-effects logistic regressions indicated that while both groups performed similarly when judging grammatical and semantically plausible sentences, bilinguals showed superior skills in evaluating syntactically correct but semantically anomalous sentences. Conversely, they underperformed in detecting grammatically incorrect but semantically plausible sentences, highlighting weaker morphosyntactic processing. These findings thus support the trade-off hypothesis (Leivada et al., 2023), revealing that while bilinguals display cognitive advantages in metalinguistic awareness, they also may face challenges in linguistic domains. Importantly, our study addressed bilingual children with a migrant backgrounds, a population less studied and potentially more vulnerable, ultimately underscoring the importance of maintaining the home language and providing rich, high-quality input to enhance both their cognitive and linguistic development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35076,"journal":{"name":"Ampersand","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142720251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Differential object marking in German learners of Spanish: Insights from the MuLeCo learner corpus

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100203

Patricia de Crignis

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When cultural antagonism does not align with language bias: The sociolinguistic, cultural, and emotional experiences of German immigrants in post-crisis Greece

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100206

Vasiliki Polychroniadou , Alex Panicacci

{"title":"When cultural antagonism does not align with language bias: The sociolinguistic, cultural, and emotional experiences of German immigrants in post-crisis Greece","authors":"Vasiliki Polychroniadou , Alex Panicacci","doi":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on a sample of 65 German immigrants living in Greece, an understudied minority in this context, this paper explores the connection between participants' attitudes towards the heritage and host dimensions and emotions when using the heritage language (L1). Statistical analysis of survey data revealed that sociolinguistic practices reflected cultural affiliations without cross-interferences. Socialization in the L1 predicted immigrants' identification with the heritage culture and socialization in the local language predicted immigrants' identification with the host culture. Experiencing a sense of pride and empowerment when using the L1 enhanced participants' belonging to the heritage culture. Pride when using the L1 also enhanced their belonging to the host culture. Following the economic crisis in 2009 there was a rise of an anti-German sentiment in Greece. However, qualitative insights from open-ended questions highlighted participants' lack of negative experiences in the country. This could be explained by the high standing of the German language in Greece. Many reported no change in their positive self-perceptions when using German. Facing minor discrimination did not affect these feelings. These results are relevant in sociopolitical discourse promoting monolingual ideologies that portray minority language use as a hindrance to integration, clarifying the connection between immigrants’ self-perceptions and well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35076,"journal":{"name":"Ampersand","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143162893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Linguistic landscape in George Town, Malaysia: Language visibility in a postcolonial and globalized context 马来西亚乔治敦的语言景观：后殖民和全球化背景下的语言能见度

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100202

Yuling Jiao, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh

{"title":"Linguistic landscape in George Town, Malaysia: Language visibility in a postcolonial and globalized context","authors":"Yuling Jiao, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The visibility of languages in the linguistic landscape reflects various aspects of linguistic diversity and dynamics in a given territory, signifying social interactions, identities, and power relationships among ethnic groups. However, postcolonial acontexts with widespread use of ethnic minority languages and the coexistence of state-sponsored national languages with precolonial official languages in the era of globalization have received limited research. This paper investigates the visibility of language in three neighbourhoods in George Town, Malaysia, a former administrative city under British governance, focusing on language visibility within three distinct neighborhoods: Chinatown, Little India, and the Beach Street. The study reveals a complex interplay of languages, highlighting the predominance of English as an information carrier and a symbol of modernity, alongside the increasing prominence of Chinese and the lesser visibility of Tamil and underrepresentation of other minority languages. The research underscores the ethnic boundaries between the vibrant enclaves of Little India and Chinatown, while Beach Street serves as a multicultural space reflecting a blend of local and global influences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35076,"journal":{"name":"Ampersand","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142534411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Literature-based language learning: Challenges, and opportunities for English learners 基于文学的语言学习：英语学习者面临的挑战和机遇

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100201

Kazi Imran Hossain

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From second language acquisition research to foreign language teaching through the prism of corpora 从第二语言习得研究到语料库视角下的外语教学

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100204

Gaëtanelle Gilquin

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Monoglossic ideologies and the two-way relationship between linguistics and language learning/teaching: Idiosyncratic variation in Brazilian Portuguese and its challenges for usage-based teaching

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100198

Paul O'Neill

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Frequency effects in acquisition and processing of complex verbal constructions in Romance: Experimental and corpus perspectives on Spanish as well as potential implications for foreign language acquisition

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100199

Birgit Füreder

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Turkish spelling errors by Turkish-Dutch bilingual children 土耳其-荷兰双语儿童的土耳其语拼写错误

Ampersand Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.amper.2024.100197

Treysi Terziyan

{"title":"Turkish spelling errors by Turkish-Dutch bilingual children","authors":"Treysi Terziyan","doi":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.amper.2024.100197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current pilot study adds to the small body of work focusing on Turkish-Dutch children's Turkish literacy attainment by investigating their spelling errors. This study deviates from the previous studies by attempting to find patterns behind the surface representation of errors (i.e. omission, substitution and addition). Fifty-three 10 to 12 year-old Turkish-Dutch bilingual children were asked to write Turkish narratives. The participants misspelled about half of the words. The errors in order of frequency were diacritic errors (i.e. confusing the graphemes with and without diacritics), orthographic ambiguity errors (i.e. phonetically spelling a word though it is not orthographically transparent), punctuation errors, capitalization errors, morphological errors (e.g. using a wrong allomorph of a suffix), spacing errors (e.g. writing two words as one), code-switching (i.e. utilizing Dutch words in Turkish sentences) and Dutch-influenced errors (i.e. using Dutch orthographic rules in Turkish such as spelling /j/ as <j> or /u/ as <oe>). The rest of the errors, which lacked a discernible pattern, were categorized as “other”. These results differed from the findings on Turkish monolingual children's spelling errors in the literature in some notable ways (e.g. the very high rate of misspelled words and the prevalence of diacritic errors).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35076,"journal":{"name":"Ampersand","volume":"13 ","pages":"Article 100197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142534813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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