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A contrastive study of sentence structure, clause combination strategies and syntactic complexity in oral informal narratives produced by native speakers of english and advanced EFL learners
(Universidad de Chile, 2008)
The present study aims at identifying and describing a set of syntactic choices
made at discourse-text level by native speakers of English and advanced EFL
learners in spontaneous production of oral, informal narratives, ...
A study of the English postposition ago in the speech of adult native speakers in advanced EFL recordings
(2017)
Of the three aspects of intonation normally taught at EFL teacher/translator training colleges, namely the ‘chunking’ of speech into tone groups, the location of a main prominence or nucleus, and the behaviour of the pitch ...
Exploring acknowledgements in ELT/TESOL master’s theses: comparing native and non-native writers
(Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2018-01)
"The aim of this study is to analyze native and non-native writers’ expression of gratitude in the section of acknowledgements of their research project. Despite acknowledgements may seem as a separate section of the main ...
Students' and teachers' social representations about the RP English accent and their relationship with the notion of "Native speaker" in the University educational level in Chile
(Universidad de Chile, 2017)
present investigation critically analyses, from Linguistic anthropology’s viewpoint, some representations from teachers’ and learners’ common sense in the discourse in relation to the English language, its teaching and ...
A cross-cultural and interlanguage study of head-acts in the realization of requests and refusals by native speakers of Spanish and English and by university EFL learners
(Universidad de Chile, 2010)
Objetives: to describe the way in which native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish
realize the speech acts of request and refusal in their respective mother tongues; to determine the extent to which the ...
Gesture influences the processing of figurative language in non-native speakers: ERP evidence
(Elsevier Ireland, 2010-02)
Gestures should play a role in second language comprehension, given their importance in conveying contextual information. In this study, the N400 and the LPC were evaluated in a task involving the observation of videos ...
The Negotiation of Politeness in Business Meetings: A Study of Argentine Speakers of English
(Universidad de Belgrano . Facultad de Lenguas y Estudios Extranjeros, 2012-09-14)
Although much has been written on the “the discursive struggle over (im)politeness” (Watts 2003: 9) by
non-native lingua franca speakers and their native counterparts, there is still, to my knowledge, relatively
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