Classification of the Romance Languages: Evolution of Motion-Based Periphrases as a New Criterion

Stolova, Natalya I.

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“…The Romance languages, a subgroup of the Indo-European language family, include Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, and Occitan (Stolova, 2009). In the present study, only Spanish and Portuguese participants were included, and they were referred to as the Romance-language-speaking ESL learners.…”

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How Do Chinese ESL Learners Recognize English Words During a Reading Test? A Comparison With Romance-Language-Speaking ESL Learners

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2015

International Multilingual Research Journal

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This study examines how Chinese ESL learners recognize English words while responding to a multiple-choice reading test as compared to Romance-language-speaking ESL learners. Four adult Chinese ESL learners and three adult Romance-language-speaking ESL learners participated in a think-aloud study with the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) reading test. As indicated by the think-aloud verbal reports, the Chinese ESL learners generally had more difficulty with English vocabulary, probably due to the vast difference between the writing system of Chinese and that of English. Rather, they were found to compensate for their deficiencies in vocabulary knowledge by extensively relying on test-taking strategies. The findings of this study are well supported by the cross-linguistic transfer theory and the compensatory nature of reading comprehension. The implications for teaching English vocabulary skills to Chinese ESL learners are also discussed.

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2015

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“…Moreover, with the exception of Baldi (2006), analyses have been limited to specific languages. This book, then, along with some of the author’s previous work (Stolova 2003, 2008, 2010), represents the first systematic application of Talmy’s typology to diachronic Pan-Romance data.…”

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Natalya I. Stolova, Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: motion verbs from Latin to Romance. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. 261. ISBN 978-90-272-4850-3

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Classification of the Romance Languages: Evolution of Motion-Based Periphrases as a New Criterion

Cited by 5 publications

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How Do Chinese ESL Learners Recognize English Words During a Reading Test? A Comparison With Romance-Language-Speaking ESL Learners

How Do Chinese ESL Learners Recognize English Words During a Reading Test? A Comparison With Romance-Language-Speaking ESL Learners

Natalya I. Stolova, Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change: motion verbs from Latin to Romance. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. Pp. 261. ISBN 978-90-272-4850-3

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