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Being German versus doing German: How pre-sojourn learners of German in Jordan construct and subvert ethnic identity through knowledge displays
DownloadFall 2023
This study examines how knowledge displays reflect the way students of German at a university in Jordan position themselves vis-à-vis German identity in the semester prior to studying abroad. It may be tempting to assume that language learners desire some degree of target culture membership, but...
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Identifying negative language transfer in learner writing: using syntactic information to model structural differences
DownloadFall 2021
Second language learners transfer rules from their native languages when trying to communicate in the new language. When the transferred rules do not match the second language grammar, this reuse results in errors. Although this phenomenon is well known and documented by linguists and language...