Inadequate research attention has been paid to the learning of a third language. For this reason, study explores senior English major students’ additional foreign languages in seven universities Shaanxi Province, China. The examines relationship between participants’ motivation and language proficiency through questionnaire, collected data are analyzed using hierarchical linear regression analysis. results identify that instrumental integrative motivations positively influence their second...

This article reports the results of an investigation, based on a 170 000-word corpus test performance, validity College English Test-Spoken Test (CET-SET) group discussion by examining degree interaction among candidates in task with respect to set interactional language functions (ILFs) be assessed. The show low CET-SET discussion. Consequently, inadequate elicitation ILFs from may well pose problem for measuring their speaking ability this regard.

Abstract Given the colexification of perception and cognition, Georgakopoulos et al. (2022. Universal macro-areal patterns in lexicon: A case-study perception-cognition domain. Linguistic Typology 26(2). 439–487) claim that uncontrolled experience rather than controlled activity has a direct linkage to cognition. To test whether this is universal tendency, study conducts contrastive behavioral profile analysis two basic vision verbs Mandarin: kàn , verb, jiàn an verb. The results show (i)...

Globalisation has shrunk the world into a ‘global village’, where prevalence of English been intensified and communication in fields economics politics become more convenient...

This study, using databases from the AsiaBarometer Surveys 2006 and 2007, empirically investigates whether how English proficiency happiness are linked in 14 East Southeast Asian countries or regions. Based on large-scale dataset of 14,811 respondents, we conducted hierarchical regression analyses found that: (i) is positively associated with happiness; (ii) focal relationship partly mediated by income leisure satisfaction; (iii) negatively moderated national economy. These findings show...

Reading comprehension is never considered a simple task in linguists’ views as it requires full set of linguistic knowledge, such word decoding, understanding syntactic and morphological structures, deriving proper meanings from these structures given context. Bearing the view reading, primary goal this study to explore whether split presentation Chinese splittable compounds influences recognition second language (L2) reading comprehension, how skills, i.e., decoding cooperate complete task....