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Apaloo, Marie; Cardoso, Walcir – Language Awareness, 2022
Possessive determiners (PDs) "his" and "her" are challenging for L2 learners to acquire, and this difficulty has been attributed to several factors, including negative L1 transfer effects (White et al., 2007). What researchers have not yet considered is how PDs are acquired by learners whose L1 predicts positive transfer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Dialects, Second Language Learning
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Joel Windle; Kathleen Heugh; Mei French; Janet Armitage; Li-Ching Chang – Language Awareness, 2023
In this paper, we build on southern and decolonial theories of multilingualism and invite a south-north conversation through a concept we propose as "reciprocal multilingual awareness." Reciprocity is a core value of southern societies that balance pluralities of episteme, language, and communality. Central features of southern…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Postcolonialism, Linguistic Theory