Contribution to Mobile-Enhanced English Language Pedagogy among Iranian L2 Learners by Saeed Khazaie, Gholam Zarei, Ali Jalilifar

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Bilingualism of Two Indonesian Siblings Living in Australia by Dwi Rahayu

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Acquisition of French Causatives: Parallels to English Passives by Jason Borga, William Snyder

Subjects: “…first language acquisition…”
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Effects of reading anxiety, first language reading and English as foreign language proficiency on English reading comprehension [electronic resource] / by Samira Hassani, 1984-, Azizah Rajab, supervisor, Fakulti Pendidikan

Use of First Language in the Classroom: Non-native EFL Teachers’ Beliefs in Teaching English to Adult Learners in Bilingual Context by Ahmad, Iftikhar, Noor Raha, Mohd Radzuan, Hussain, Muhammad Sabboor

“…However, there are glaring research gaps about non-native EFL teachers’ and adult learners’ beliefs on the use of first language (L1) in the classroom. For this purpose, the study used quantitative research design, and administered two questionnaires, one for the teachers and the other for the students. …”
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Investigating the impact of SMS speak on the written work of English first language and English second language high school learners by Winzker, Kristy, Southwood, Frenette, Huddlestone, Kate

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First-language raters’ opinions when validating word recordings for a newly developed speech reception threshold test by Seema Panday, Harsha Kathard, Mershen Pillay, Wayne Wilson

“…Background: The purpose of this study was to consider the value of adding first-language speaker ratings to the process of validating word recordings for use in a new speech reception threshold (SRT) test in audiology. …”
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A mixed method comparison of stigma toward autism and schizophrenia and effects of person-first versus identity-first language by Desiree R. Jones, Noah J. Sasson

“…Responses were compared across broader diagnostic categories (autism, schizophrenia, general clinical condition), with thematic analysis used to assess the broader themes occurring within the open-ended text.ResultsWhile perceptions did not differ significantly for person-first and identity-first language within labels, several differences were apparent across labels. …”
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Exploring retrospective/prospective patterns in MICUSP: A comparative study of English as a first language and English as an additional language by Mohammad Jalali, Alireza Jalilifar, Fatemeh Ahmadinasab, Jorge Arus-Hita

“…English as a First Language (EFL) and English as an Additional Language (The results indicated that both EFL and EAL students used a diverse array of linguistic features to express their ideas in academic prose, with the prospective categories being the most commonly used.…”
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Trainee teachers' perception towards using first language to facilitate the teaching of an ESL classroom / Muhammad Faiz Mat Lazim by Mat Lazim, Muhammad Faiz

“…This study intends to explore and investigate the perceptions of the trainee teachers' towards using first language to facilitate the teaching of an ESL classroom. …”
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How Does the First Language Influence English Learning? Designing A Good Classroom Activity for Teaching English to Chinese Children by Chen Jingyi

“…In this analysis, it was observed that English teachers could help students better understand the differences between English and their mother tongue by starting from the learner’s thinking of the first language and merging the thinking habits of the first language to compare the two languages. …”
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Correlation between phonological and morphological awareness and the reading of punctuated and non-punctuated words in Arabic as first language and Hebrew as second language by Saied Bishara, Itzhak Weiss

“…Phonological and morphological awareness and its correlation with reading punctuated and non-punctuated words in Arabic as a first language were examined, as well as its transfer to Hebrew as a second language. …”
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Does the Association between Preschool Media Use and Language Difficulties at School Entry Vary by First Language of the Child and Parental Education? by Chiara Maria Hammrich, Simon Götz, Monika Daseking, Simone Weyers

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Associative Learning of New Word Forms in a First Language (L1) and Haptic Referents in a Single-Day Experiment by Yutao Yang, Yan Yan, Misa Ando, Xinyi Liu, Toshimune Kambara

“…This study focused on the associative learning of new word forms in the first language and haptic stimuli. In this study, healthy Japanese participants performed three-step tasks. …”
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Language Learning and Language Universals by Jeffrey Lidz

Subjects: “…first language acquisition…”
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The Benefits of Using L1 in Foreign Language Learning Process by Tamuna Khetaguri, Mzia Zangaladze, Mustafa Albay

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Les représentations cognitives : pour une mise en évidence de leur rôle dans l'appropriation des langues by Laurence Vincent-Durroux

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THE INFLUENCE OF FIRST LANGUAGE ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF SECOND LANGUAGE (A CASE STUDY OF THE MEMBERS OF ENGLISH CLUB AT MTS SALAFIYAH SYAFIIYAH MUMBULSARI JEMBER) by Nailul Authar

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Interlanguage Analysis on Indonesian EFL Learners’ Compositions by Putu Ayu Masita Maheswari, Ni Luh Putu Sri Adnyani, Ni Komang Arie Suwastini

Subjects: “…interlanguage, composition, first language, target language, efl…”
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Navigating accent bias in German: children's social preferences for a second-language accent over a first-language regional accent by Adriana Hanulíková

“…Interestingly, when the local accent was absent, children socially preferred a second-language accent (American) over a first-language regional accent (Bavarian), even though both accents were equally intelligible and relatively unfamiliar to the children, as determined through a sentence repetition task and a geographical classification task. …”
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