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‘No in English I don’t do that’: exploring Gambian migrants’ linguistic cooperation in Italy 用英语说'不，我不会那样做'：探讨冈比亚移民在意大利的语言合作

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae091

Marco Santello

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To disclose or not to disclose: Exploring the risk of being transparent about GenAI use in second language writing 披露或不披露：探索在第二语言写作中对GenAI使用透明的风险

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae092

Xiao Tan, Chaoran Wang, Wei Xu

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Decolonizing language learning in digital environments through the voices of plurilingual learners in the Global South 通过全球南方多语学习者的声音，实现数字环境下语言学习的非殖民化

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae090

Angelica Galante, Enrica Piccardo, Faith Marcel, Lana F Zeaiter, John Wayne N dela Cruz, Aisha Barise

{"title":"Decolonizing language learning in digital environments through the voices of plurilingual learners in the Global South","authors":"Angelica Galante, Enrica Piccardo, Faith Marcel, Lana F Zeaiter, John Wayne N dela Cruz, Aisha Barise","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae090","url":null,"abstract":"Digital pedagogies of empowerment are needed to shift discourses on marginalization, facilitate additional language learning, and sustain multilingualism. Grounded in plurilingualism and decoloniality as theoretical frameworks, this transformative mixed methods study explored the affordances of PluriDigit, a plurilingual, decolonial, and digital approach to language learning. This study was conducted with thirty six language learners enrolled in online language courses in a multilingual program in São Paulo, Brazil. We explored whether learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural identities and competence would change over time and the potential emergent contributions of PluriDigit to learner empowerment. Results from inductive and deductive analyses of three types of data indicate a shift in learners’ mindset from monolingual to plurilingual and pluricultural identity and a significant increase in plurilingual and pluricultural competence scores over time. Moreover, results show that PluriDigit offered a critical lens to plurilingualism, facilitating decolonial learning, agency, and relationality, as well as the development of voice in the target language. We argue that PluriDigit is one possibility of digital decolonial pedagogy that can empower language learners in the Global South and beyond.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142908481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘We can fix this. Let’s get you out of trouble, son’: an analysis of the transitivity and appraisal patterns in the Netflix TV show When They See Us “我们可以解决这个问题。让我们帮你摆脱困境吧，孩子”：对Netflix电视剧《当他们看到我们》中及物性和评价模式的分析

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae081

Leanne Bartley, Piergiorgio Trevisan

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Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: An investigation of the Foreign Language Effect 克服对 COVID-19 疫苗的犹豫不决：外语效应调查

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae083

Monika S Schmid, Karen Roehr-Brackin

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How many L2 word meanings can learners recall? A latent trait approach to vocabulary size estimation 学习者能回忆起多少 L2 词义？估算词汇量的潜在特质方法

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae087

Akira Hamada, Yuko Hoshino, Masumi Kojima, Kazumi Aizawa, Tatsuo Iso, Yuichiro Kobayashi

{"title":"How many L2 word meanings can learners recall? A latent trait approach to vocabulary size estimation","authors":"Akira Hamada, Yuko Hoshino, Masumi Kojima, Kazumi Aizawa, Tatsuo Iso, Yuichiro Kobayashi","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae087","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the size of meaning-recall vocabulary knowledge and its variations across word-frequency and second language (L2) proficiency levels. Despite the extensive research history in determining lexical coverage and thresholds for effective L2 use, much of the evidence is based on measures of meaning-recognition vocabulary knowledge. Using a latent-trait approach, we calculated the probability that learners could recall the meaning of each word in a vocabulary size test. Differences in vocabulary size between recognition and recall formats were analyzed across word-frequency bands and L2 proficiency levels. Results indicate that most learners struggle to recall the meanings of word families beyond the second-most frequent band. Moreover, the gap between meaning-recall and meaning-recognition vocabulary sizes was substantial and expanded as word-frequency and L2 proficiency levels decreased. These findings contribute to defining realistic L2 vocabulary teaching goals and selecting appropriate teaching methods. Construct-irrelevant measurements lead to a misunderstanding of L2 lexical proficiency, emphasizing the importance of test format selection according to the developmental stages of learners’ vocabulary knowledge.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142902270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines 儿童写作中的连接状语：探索不同年级、体裁和学科的变化

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae084

Philip Durrant, Erdem Akbaş, Elif Barbaros, Arwa Aldawood

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Securing affiliation and managing disagreement: Epistemic primacy claims in group-based L2 oral assessments 确保从属关系和管理分歧：基于小组的第二语言口语评估中的认识论优先权主张

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae077

Michael Stephenson, Spencer Hazel

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Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020) 对已发表的生物医学研究摘要和相关的美国国立卫生研究院资助申请中的认识论立场进行比较分析（1985-2020 年）

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae072

Neil Millar, Bojan Batalo

{"title":"Comparative analysis of epistemic stance in abstracts of published biomedical research and associated National Institutes of Health funding applications (1985–2020)","authors":"Neil Millar, Bojan Batalo","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae072","url":null,"abstract":"Research funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) exerts considerable influence over the trajectory of biomedical science and healthcare policy and practice. Here, we extend previous research by assessing the relationship between the expression of epistemic stance (i.e. confidence in propositions) in successful NIH funding applications and the subsequent research publications. Analysis of 140 stance features (modal verbs, hedges, and boosters) in all PubMed abstracts describing NIH-funded research during the period 1985–2020 identified trends that broadly mirrored those previously reported for abstracts of the associated funding applications. We argue that trends, in part, indicate that investigators adopted a stance that became less cautious and less tentative (e.g. consistent declines for appear, seem, and probably), and increasingly confident, assertive, and empirical (e.g. consistent increases for highlight, likely, and typically). Discussing our results in relation to changes in the biomedical research system, including growth in promotional writing strategies, we suggest that increasing salesmanship in the NIH research system is in part a downstream effect of funding mechanisms. We also infer methodological and pedagogic implications for analysis of metadiscourse.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142678225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data 从 "是 "到 "成为 "的视角转换--基于纵向数据的语言发展和说话者分类的另一种方法

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae078

Maria Stopfner

{"title":"Changing perspective from being to becoming—An alternative approach to language development and speaker categorization based on longitudinal data","authors":"Maria Stopfner","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae078","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of transnational mobility and migration, globally networked communities and super-diverse social environments, traditional research practices of speaker categorization such as the distinction between native and non-native speakers, first, second, and third language users and mono-, bi-, and pluri-/multilinguals, which rest on the assumption of categorical differences between types of speakers and the general stability of speaker categories as biographical fact, are increasingly called into question. Critical voices point out that in real life, differences between language users turn out to be fuzzy, gradient, and continuous, and that conventional speaker categorizations are conceptualized from a monolingual perspective, providing grounds for discriminatory practices. Based on a longitudinal study design, the paper aims to offer an alternative quantitative approach for researchers who are dissatisfied with common practices of speaker categorization and wish to shift perspective to a more comprehensive way of studying language development within communities. The analysis draws on the results of c-tests for German, Italian, and English that were specifically designed for the study and administered to the same students (n = 170) in their first and final year at lower secondary school.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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