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Download full textAlmudena Fernández-Fontecha; James Ryan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study seeks to delve into the potential role of divergent thinking, a component of creativity, in second language learning. Specifically, we compare the use of lexical organization and production strategies of two groups of more and less creative EFL learners in year 12 through an automatic vectorial semantic analysis of their retrieval in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Cieslicka, Anna B. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Most current idiom processing models acknowledge, after Gernsbacher and Robertson (1999) that deriving an idiomatic meaning entails suppression of contextually inappropriate, literal meanings of idiom constituent words. While embedding idioms in the rich disambiguating context can promote earlier suppression of incompatible literal meanings,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Figurative Language, Polish, Native Language
