Second language influence on first language motion event encoding and categorization in Spanish-speaking children learning L2 English

Studies show cross-linguistic differences in motion event encoding, such that English speakers preferentially encode manner of motion more than Spanish speakers, who preferentially encode path of motion. Focusing on native Spanish speaking children (aged 5;00-9;00) learning L2 English, we studied path and manner verb preferences during descriptions of motion stimuli, and tested the linguistic relativity hypothesis by investigating categorization preferences in a non-verbal similarity judgement task of motion clip triads. Results revealed L2 influence on L1 motion event encoding, such that bilinguals used more manner verbs and fewer path verbs in their L1, under the influence of English. We found no effects of linguistic structure on non-verbal similarity judgements, and demonstrate for the first time effects of L2 on L1 lexicalization in child L2 learners in the domain of motion events. This pattern of verbal behaviour supports theories of bilingual semantic representation that postulate a merged lexico-semantic system in early bilinguals.

Principia latina. A first Latin reading book, containing an epitome of Caesar's Gallic wars & Lhomond's Lives of distinguished Romans ...

Mode of access: Internet.

A first French reading book : containing fables, anecdotes, inventions ... on the plan of Dr. William Smith's "Principia latina."

Mode of access: Internet.

IGCSE study guide for first language English.

Guía de estudio que ha sido escrito para los estudiantes que preparan el Examen Internacional de la Universidad de Cambridge de lengua materna inglesa del programa de estudios IGCSE (básico y ampliado). Se divide en trece temas, cada uno de los cuales comienza con una lista de objetivos fundamentales que especifica las habilidades y conocimientos que los estudiantes deben adquirir durante el curso, que incluye también una lista de definiciones clave, de ideas clave y de competencias que se evalúan en los exámenes.

Practice tests for IGCSE English as a second language : reading and writing book 1.

El libro contiene 4 test prácticos completos con formato de examen para los ejercicios 1 y 2 de la prueba Cambridge IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) de inglés como segundo idioma. Los test permiten desarrollar las técnicas de examen de los alumnos familiarizándose con el formato de los ejercicios de lectura y redacción, y con el tipo de temas y textos que pueden encontrar en el examen oficial. El nivel de la prueba es intermedio e intermedio-alto.

Practice tests for IGCSE English as a second language : reading and writing book 1 with key.

El libro contiene 4 test prácticos completos con formato de examen para los ejercicios 1 y 2 de la prueba Cambridge IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) de inglés como segundo idioma. Los test permiten desarrollar las técnicas de examen de los alumnos familiarizándose con el formato de los ejercicios de lectura y redacción, y con el tipo de temas y textos que pueden encontrar en el examen oficial. El nivel de la prueba es intermedio e intermedio-alto. Incluye respuestas y redacciones de ejemplo.

Practice tests for IGCSE English as a second language : reading and writing book 2.

El libro contiene cuatro tests prácticos completos con formato de examen para el ejercicio 2 de la prueba Cambridge IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) de inglés como segundo idioma. Los tests permiten desarrollar las técnicas de examen de los alumnos familiarizándose con el formato de los ejercicios de lectura, compresión y escritura, y con el tipo de temas que pueden encontrar en el examen oficial. El nivel de la prueba es intermedio e intermedio-alto.

Practice tests for IGCSE English as a second language : reading and writing book 2 with key.

El libro contiene cuatro tests prácticos completos con formato de examen para el ejercicio 2 de la prueba Cambridge IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) de inglés como segundo idioma. Los tests permiten desarrollar las técnicas de examen de los alumnos familiarizándose con el formato de los ejercicios de lectura, compresión y redacción, y con el tipo de temas y textos que pueden encontrar en el examen oficial. El nivel de la prueba es intermedio e intermedio-alto. Incluye las respuestas de los tests y redacciones de ejemplo.

The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England: or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self ... Hæc ego grandævus posui tibi, candide lector, authore Edwardo Coke, milite. Also three learned tracts of the same author: the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled, The statute of levying fines: the second, Of bail and mainprize: and the third, his Compleat copyholder.

French and English text in parallel columns.

Female Exiles in Language: Reading for New Poetic Subjects in Modern and Contemporary Feminist Experimental Poetry

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

The performance of South African English first language child speakers on a "low linguistically loaded" central auditory processing test protocol

The lack of standardized tests of central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) in South Africa (SA) led to the formation of a SA CAPD Taskforce, and the interim development of a "low linguistically loaded" CAPD test protocol using test recordings from the 'Tonal and Speech Materials for Auditory Perceptual Assessment Disc 2.0'. This study inferentially compared the performance of 16 SA English first, and 16 SA English second, language adult speakers on this test protocol, and descriptively compared their performances to previously published American normative data. Comparisons between the SA English first and second language speakers showed a poorer right ear performance (p < .05) by the second language speakers on the two-pair dichotic digits test only. Equivalent performances (p < .05) were observed on the left ear performance on the two pair dichotic digits test, and the frequency patterns test, the duration patterns test, the low-pass filtered speech test, the 45% time compressed speech test, the speech masking level difference test, and the consonant vowel consonant (CVC) binaural fusion test. Comparisons between the SA English and the American normative data showed many large differences (up to 37.1% with respect to predicted pass criteria as calculated by mean-2SD cutoffs), with the SA English speakers performing both better and worse depending on the test involved. As a result, the American normative data was not considered appropriate for immediate use as normative data in SA. Instead, the preliminary data provided in this study was recommended as interim normative data for both SA English first and second language adult speakers, until larger scale SA normative data can be obtained.