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Elisa M. Holcomb; Sarah Jerasa; Laveria Hutchison – Reading Teacher, 2026
Multilingual readers use strategies other than phoneme-grapheme and word patterns to pronounce and comprehend sight words presented in popular children's books. Using the Contemporary Children's High-Frequency Words (CCHFW) list, which represents culturally and linguistically diverse and inclusive words, this article provides resources and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Language Patterns, Word Frequency
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Zhang, Yi; Ren, Wei – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study investigates the use of a popular online expression 'skr' by Chinese micro-blogging users on Weibo. Used originally as a hip-hop term for the sound of cars drifting tires, 'skr' was exploited by Chinese micro-blogging users for other meanings and functions. Data were collected from Weibo users' postings over a month. Using the Search…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Creativity, Electronic Publishing, Language Usage
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Qianqian Zhang-Wu; Cherice Escobar Jones – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
In this exploratory study, we adopt corpus linguistic methods to quantify, contextualize and investigate race in translingual scholarship in US writing and rhetoric studies over the past decade. Results indicate that while race is mentioned minimally in the corpus, in instances where it is mentioned many scholars pay attention to…
Descriptors: Race, Computational Linguistics, Writing Research, Rhetoric
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Stammers, Jonathan R.; Deuchar, Margaret – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
According to the nonce borrowing hypothesis (NBH), "[n]once borrowings pattern exactly like their native counterparts in the (unmixed) recipient language" (Poplack & Meechan, 1998a, p. 137). Nonce borrowings (Sankoff, Poplack & Vanniarajan, 1990, p. 74) are "lone other-language items" which differ from established borrowings in terms of frequency…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Verbs, Linguistic Theory, Classification