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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

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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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An intervention study on the influence of altruistic teaching on L2 learners’ English research article abstract writing 利他主义教学对 L2 学习者英语研究文章摘要写作影响的干预研究

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae067

Javad Zare, Ali Derakhshan

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“Bridging cultures with love”: Spirituality in fostering intercultural effectiveness. The effects of language "用爱架起文化的桥梁"：培养跨文化效率的精神力量。语言的影响

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae069

Michał Wilczewski, Oleg Gorbaniuk, Arkadiusz Gut, Mariusz Wołońciej

{"title":"“Bridging cultures with love”: Spirituality in fostering intercultural effectiveness. The effects of language","authors":"Michał Wilczewski, Oleg Gorbaniuk, Arkadiusz Gut, Mariusz Wołońciej","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae069","url":null,"abstract":"Research yields contradictory results on the relationship between an individual’s spirituality, that is, the relationship with God/the Transcendent, and their cultural development. To address this gap, we conceptualize a model that investigates the effects of two spirituality dimensions, namely felt love for God and love for others, on the behavioral aspect of intercultural competence, that is, intercultural effectiveness (IE), through ethnocentrism. This model undergoes testing using a sample of 144 international students who self-identify as Christians, Muslims, belonging to other religions, and non-religious. The results confirm the positive impact of spirituality on IE by reducing ethnocentrism. We establish suppressing effects of both love for God and love for others, suggesting intricate dynamics of these two spirituality dimensions within the intercultural communication model. Furthermore, we identify the direct effects of host language and English as a lingua franca proficiency on IE. We also define the mitigating effect of host language proficiency on the adverse impact of ethnocentrism on IE. This study underscores the importance of higher education institutions to nurture students’ relational spirituality and support them in overcoming ethnocentric perspectives.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"216 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142599663","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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Can GPT-4 learn to analyse moves in research article abstracts? GPT-4 能否学会分析研究文章摘要中的动作？

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae071

Danni Yu, Marina Bondi, Ken Hyland

{"title":"Can GPT-4 learn to analyse moves in research article abstracts?","authors":"Danni Yu, Marina Bondi, Ken Hyland","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae071","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most powerful and enduring ideas in written discourse analysis is that genres can be described in terms of the moves which structure a writer’s purpose. Considerable research has sought to identify these distinct communicative acts, but analyses have been beset by problems of subjectivity, reliability, and the time-consuming need for multiple coders to confirm analyses. In this article, we employ the affordances of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) to automate the annotation process by using natural language prompts. Focusing on abstracts from articles in four applied linguistics journals, we devise prompts which enable the model to identify moves effectively. The annotated outputs of these prompts were evaluated by two assessors with a third addressing disagreements. The results show that an eight-shot prompt was more effective than one using two, confirming that the inclusion of examples illustrating areas of variability can enhance GPT-4’s ability to recognize multiple moves in a single sentence and reduce bias related to textual position. We suggest that GPT-4 offers considerable potential in automating this annotation process, when human actors with domain-specific linguistic expertise inform the prompting process.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142566099","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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English language and employability in locally produced ELT textbooks: Clashes between neoliberal ideals and social class structures in the pedagogical space 本地编写的英语语言教学教科书中的英语语言和就业能力：教学空间中新自由主义理想与社会阶层结构之间的冲突

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae070

M Maksud Ali, M Obaidul Hamid

{"title":"English language and employability in locally produced ELT textbooks: Clashes between neoliberal ideals and social class structures in the pedagogical space","authors":"M Maksud Ali, M Obaidul Hamid","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae070","url":null,"abstract":"While a growing body of literature has illustrated how neoliberal discourses of English and employment have come to shape English language teaching (ELT) textbooks in a globalized world, little is known about how the translation of these discourses into pedagogical practices is mediated by the social class structures in postcolonial societies. In this article, we draw on a larger qualitative case study to address this gap in the Bangladesh secondary schooling context. We utilize Bourdieu’s conceptual resources and analyze interview and classroom observation data to illustrate how discourses of English and employment introduced into the secondary education-level ELT textbook are enacted in a high socio-economic status school. As our findings illustrate, the students from this school rejected how English was linked to low-profile jobs in the textbook, as this representation contradicted their social class and career aspirations. These findings contribute to the political economy in applied linguistics literature by illustrating how the enactment of the neoliberal discourses of English and employment constructed in the locally produced ELT textbooks is mediated by social class.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142566098","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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The pragmatism of emotional-expressive words in Kazakh linguistics: A study of M. Auezov’s ‘The Way of Abai’ 哈萨克语言学中情感表达词汇的实用性：对 M. Auezov 的《阿拜之道》的研究

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae066

Kuralay Telgozhayeva, Gulbany Kossymova, Zaure Sovetova, Khadisha Telgozhayeva

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