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Children’s Early Acquisition of Syntactic Category: A Corpus-Based Analysis of English Determiner-Noun Combinational Flexibility 儿童句法范畴的早期习得:基于语料库的英语限定词组合灵活性分析

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-24 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p78

Yumeng Lin, Songqi Li

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Reviewer acknowledgements for International Journal of English Linguistics, Vol. 12, No. 5 《国际英语语言学杂志》第12卷第5期审稿人致谢

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-30 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n5p105

Diana Xu

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Gender Analysis of Writing E-Mails Received from Graduate Students at Saudi Universities 沙特大学研究生电子邮件写作的性别分析

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p69

Noorah A. Almohaimeed

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Code-Switching Between Arabic and English as a Communicative Strategy Among Preschool Bilingual Saudi Children 阿拉伯语和英语之间的代码转换作为沙特双语学龄前儿童的交际策略

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-09-08 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p58

Samaher H. Alrasheed

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A Contrastive Study on the Utilization of Discourse Markers in the Discussion Section of English Research Articles 英语研究文章讨论部分话语标记使用的对比研究

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-31 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p36

Lana S. Almohaimeed

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Arabic-English Code-Switching in the Saudi Video Gaming Community: A Sociolinguistic Perspective 沙特电子游戏社区的阿拉伯-英语代码转换:社会语言学视角

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-31 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p25

Farah Sulaiman AlBathi

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Saudi Graduate Students’ Perceptions Toward Automated Writing Feedback for Improving Academic Writing 沙特研究生对提高学术写作的自动写作反馈的看法

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-31 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p48

Waad Alsaweed

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EFL Teachers’ Perceptions and Beliefs About a Professional Development Programme at an English Language Institute at a Saudi Arabian University 沙特阿拉伯大学英语语言学院教师对专业发展项目的看法与信念

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n5p95

Hussain Alhoussawi

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Effects of English Proficiency on Caucasian Face Gender Perception by Chinese-English Bilinguals: Evidence from ERP 英语熟练程度对汉英双语者白人面孔性别知觉的影响:来自ERP的证据

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p1

Xinan Zhou, Yifei Ji

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The Colexification of Xià in Modern Chinese 现代汉语中“湘”的合成词

International journal of English linguistics Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.5539/ijel.v12n6p13

Lincai Kuang, Ping-hui Liao, Kun Yang

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