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The effects of data driven learning on Iranian EFL learners' writing skills development
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From language learners to dynamic meaning makers: a longitudinal investigation of Malaysian secondary school students’ development of English from text and corpus perspectives
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A contextualized approach to the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls containing Exodus
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Judgement and adjective complementation patterns in biographical discourse: a corpus study
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The construction of meaning in the correspondence of Charles Darwin
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Women choosing silence: transformational practices and relational perspectives
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Corpus-based study of the use of English general extenders spoken by Japanese users of English across speaking proficiency levels and task types
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Revising Talmy’s typology of motion events in the light of Chinese
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Yang, Jie. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2015
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Studies of non-native language processing: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence, and the cognitive effects of non-balanced bilingualism
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What are the effects of non-balanced bilingualism on cognitive performance? And how do proficient, non-native speakers acquire and use lexical, syntactic and semantic information during sentence processing? Whilst there is growing research on these topics, there is no firm consensus on how to answer these questions. In the literature on cognitive effects of bilingualism, this lack of consensus has even resulted in radically opposing views and a heated debate. In this thesis, I seek to provide a balanced treatment of the literature and to address the above-mentioned questions by employing behavioral and neurophysiological paradigms. First, using a structural priming paradigm, I examine how proficient, non-native speakers of different native language backgrounds (Romance and Germanic) acquire lexically-specific syntactic restrictions of non-alternating verbs in English. Results from these experiments suggest that, although non-native speakers partially acquire lexically-specific syntactic restrictions, their knowledge is not native-like. Moreover, transfer from the first language does not seem to play a role in the acquisition of the relevant restrictions. Second, using Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) I examine whether proficient non-native Spanish-English speakers draw on different forms of semantic information such as relatedness and animacy incrementally during sentence comprehension. Results of these experiments suggest that, while relatedness facilitates processing (indexed by N400s) in both native and non-native speakers, effects of animacy are smaller in non-native speakers, relative to native speakers. Third, I employ a series of auditory attentional tasks and measures of lexical access and verbal fluency to assess cognitive functions in non-balanced bilinguals with different levels of language proficiency. Results show a bilingual advantage in inhibitory control and a non-significant trend towards bilingual better performance in attentional switching, and the groups exhibit similar performance on verbal fluency. Results of all the studies are discussed in the context of the existing literature on cognitive performance in bilinguals and accounts of language processing in native and non-native speakers and suggestions for future research are provided.
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bilingualism; ERPs; Event-Related Potentials; executive control; priming
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21681
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Gaelic dialects present and past: a study of modern and medieval dialect relationships in the Gaelic languages
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Grasping the Divine: apprehension of Jesus in the Gospel of John
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Good Morning, Grade One. Language ideologies and multilingualism within primary education in rural Zambia.
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Legal histories and modern identities: the emergence of nationalisms in the historical territories of the Kingdom of Navarre, Basque Provinces and State of Spain
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Points of contact: a qualitative fieldwork study of relationships between journalists and Muslim sources in Glasgow
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Teachers' negotiations of inclusive practice in Nigerian classrooms
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‘If I just get one IELTS certificate, I can get anything’: an impact study of IELTS in Pakistan
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''Tighinn o'n Cridhe'' - 'coming from the centre': an ethnography of sensory metaphor on Scottish Gaelic communal aesthetics
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Bilingual life after school? Language use, ideologies and attitudes among Gaelic-medium educated adults
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Advertising greenness in China: a critical discourse analysis of the corporate online advertising discourse
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