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Languages, Volume 9, Issue 10

October 2024 - 23 articles

Cover Story: TED Talks textbooks are commonly used in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pedagogy. Although the textbooks offer a suitable framework for practicing all four of the language skills (i.e., listening, reading, speaking, and writing), TED Talk resources could create specific vocabulary challenges for learners. This study conducts a vocabulary analysis to compare the lexical profile, vocabulary load, and the academic and multiword unit (MWUs) coverage between the TED Talks and the textbook content for each of the 12 units in Keynote 2. The results showed that the TED Talks and textbook content provided inadequate vocabulary practice, limited academic vocabulary exposure, and lacked item repetition for learners. The study suggests using word lists and appropriate TED Talk selections to support learners’ varying vocabulary knowledge. View this paper

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Cognate Facilitation in Child Third Language Learners in a Multilingual Setting

Helen Engemann and
Stefanie Radetzky

Languages2024, 9(10), 310;https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9100310

27 September 2024

Research has established cognate facilitation effects as a robust finding in bilingual adults and children. Recent studies suggest that cognate facilitation also occurs in highly proficient trilingual adults and can even accumulate across languages....

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TED Talks and the Textbook: An In-Depth Lexical Analysis

Naheen Madarbakus-Ring and
Stuart Benson

Languages2024, 9(10), 309;https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9100309

24 September 2024

The development of TED Talks textbooks has been a welcoming addition to English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pedagogy. The textbooks offer educators and learners a suitable framework for practicing all four of the language skills (i.e., listening, rea...

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¿Soy de Ribera o Rivera?: Sociolinguistic /b/-/v/ Variation in Rivera Spanish

Vanina Machado Araujo and
Owen Ward

Languages2024, 9(10), 308;https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9100308

24 September 2024

This study investigates the impact of language contact on three generations of bilingual Spanish and Uruguayan Portuguese speakers in Rivera City, Uruguay, located on the Uruguayan–Brazilian border. Focusing on the confirmed presence of the Por...

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