scholarly journals A formalização da percepção da vogal baixa nasalizada do espanhol à luz do modelo BiPhon: estudo comparativo de fragmentos das gramáticas de falantes nativos e de brasileiros adquirindo o Espanhol como língua estrangeira / Formalization of the perception of the nasalized low vowel in Spanish in the light of the BiPhon model: a comparative study of grammar fragments of Spanish native speakers and Brazilian students learning Spanish as a foreign language

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Luciene Bassols Brisolara ◽  
Carmen Lúcia Barreto Matzenauer ◽  
Roberta Quintanilha Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Brazilian Students

scholarly journals Preliminary study about the rejection in the Brazilian and the Spanish cultures: external modifiers employed in email and private messages in Facebook

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-218
Author(s):  
Sara González Berrio ◽  
Susana Martín Leralta ◽  
Nildicéia Aparecida Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Relational Power ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Brazilian Students ◽  
Peninsular Spanish

This study is part of a larger research project, aimed at analyzing and comparing rejections within a corpus of emails and private Facebook messages among three groups of informants: natives speakers of Peninsular Spanish, native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian students of Spanish as a foreign language. The partial results presented here correspond to the piloting data of the study, carried out with the informants of the first two groups. Specifically, we provide a taxonomy of external modifiers present in rejections with different degrees of imposition, relational power, and social distance. Likewise, we analyze the use of these modifiers by Brazilian and Spanish native informants.

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Derivational Morphemes Across ENL, ESL, EFL Learners Through ICNALE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farukh Arslan ◽  
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Muhammad Asim Mahmood ◽  
Attia Rasool ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
English As Second Language ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Derivational Morphemes

This corpus-based comparative study was about morphemic derivational patterns in grammatical categories: adjective, noun and verbs in different varieties: English as native language (ENL), English as second language (ESL), and English as foreign language (EFL). This study was done on data collected from ICNALE in which learners’ data from three different varieties of English was compared. The data was tagged through CLAWS tagger and analyzed through AntConc software. In result of analysis, the frequency-based differences in the morphemic derivational patterns were observed after normalizing the data. Such differences across varieties in morphemic patterns were realized through the existence and absence of derivational morphemes. The results showed that the native speakers have higher ability of using a greater number of morphemic patterns than second and foreign language speakers of English. Due to their native like competence, they are more competent is the usage of morphemic derivational patterns. Those distinctive patterns should also be taken as pedagogical implication for second and foreign language learners of English. It can also be helpful for second and foreign language learners in achieving native like ability to use English language.

Compliment Strategies Employed by Japanese and Malaysian Tour Guides during Tour Sessions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roswati Abdul Rashid ◽  
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Roslina Mamat ◽  
Rokiah Paee ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Japanese Speakers ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Tourist Guides

This research is a comparative study of Japanese language communication between the Japanese and Malay tourist guides during tourism tour sessions. The research goal is to examine patterns of compliment strategies implemented throughout the interactions of the tour sessions. The study results acquired are in the form of four recordings of a dialogue between the tourist guides and the tourists, in audio and video modes. The conversations are transcribed and coded. The tour guides included two Japanese native speakers and two Malaysian-Japanese speakers. In contrast, the tourists are Japanese native speakers who visited Malaysia, and Malaysians who attended the tourist attractions in Japan. The study reveals that the frequency of compliments applied by both Japanese and Malaysian tour guides are alike, or in other words, there are no significant differences. Nevertheless, category, function and topic or theme of compliment utterance present ssubstantial distinction.

scholarly journals CAN WE SPEAK ENGLISH? REFLECTIONS ON THE UNSPOKEN EFL IN BRAZIL

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-233
Author(s):  
Simone Tiemi Hashiguti
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Oral Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Brazilian Students

ABSTRACT This essay explores the issue of oral production in English as a foreign language in Brazil. It reports the difficulty some students find to speak the language to matters of authority and legitimacy constituted in a particular history of language policies. Interest in the theme emerged because many Brazilian students who know English state they cannot speak the language and avoid pronouncing it and engaging in conversations. A discursive methodological framework forms the basis for the analysis of postings collected from discussion forums on different websites. First, I can´t speak English works as the reference statement that makes it possible to verify a discursive regularity in operation in Brazil. Second, a postcolonial theoretical framework supports the discussion on the conditions of possibility to speak English as a foreign language in a former Portuguese colony. The author argues that the ghost of the native, idealized speaker prevents students from recognizing the English they know as legitimate, and to speak it, and points out that dignity is a possible discourse to help deconstruct the colonial, silenced positioning that exists regarding the oral production in this foreign language.

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