Unanswered Questions
292 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What are the various context clue techniques children use to learn a new word?
Is there any literature that discusses in great detail what the various context clues are that children use to learn a new word? I found myself reading a few papers "The development of a ...
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Mastering both the French r and the German r
I have a high level in German and French, but I use a uvular /ʁ/ in French
and an alveolar /r/ in German (and in Dutch, my native language).
In German, the alveolar /r/ is mainly used in Bavaria and ...
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How can English language teaching research be more relevant to teachers?
I have been teaching English as a foreign language for nearly 40 years, the last thirty-one years at universities in Japan. I have researched and published on a range of topics that include "the ...
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Evidence that translating L2 into L1 improves L2 acquisition
I run a project where young bilingual volunteers translate English-language media into the home language for their families.
I believe one of the benefits is that, because our volunteers have to ...
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How to practice honorifics?
Japanese has honorifics (敬語 - "keigo"), a feature of which my native language English is devoid. For example, there is different vocabulary and grammar to use when speaking to a social superior, about ...
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Research on effectiveness of language teaching in ulpans / ulpanim?
After the creation of Israel in 1948, ulpans (or ulpanim) were set up for the intensive study of Hebrew. Today, ulpans still exist; they are institutes or schools "designed to teach adult immigrants ...
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What aspects of "Remembering the Kana" make it effective for learning kana?
While Remembering the Kana is regarded by some as having some flaws (some have criticised how it teaches katakana, and I've noticed a few inconsistencies or errors in the book that a proof-reader ...
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How many people in the world can I speak with if I know three languages?
In order to gather some data that can hopefully give an estimate for the correlation between L1 and L2 languages, please take a moment to take this short 2-question survey.
The title might be a bit ...
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Online course or resources on speed reading in Chinese
In a comment to my previous question about the transfer of speed reading skills to other languages, someone wondered whether this would be affected by the writing system. This is very plausible. In ...
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Evidence that the European Day of Languages motivates EU citizens to learn foreign languages?
Today, 26 September, is (or was) the European Day of Languages.
The Council of Europe came up with the idea of a European Day of Languages in 2001, the European Year of Languages. The initiative has ...
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Learn alphabet by replacing letters in native text
I've read before somewhere about a way to quickly learn how to read a foreign alphabet. You take an unfamiliar letter and put it in English words where the sound of that letter makes sense. That ...
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Bulk-add pronunciations to Anki decks
This is what I want to do:
I have a large Anki collection (over 20,000 notes of Japanese vocabulary).
I want to add Japanese pitch/accent information to each note.
Possible solutions?
I have no idea ...
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Is Ekapeli useful for an adult learner of Finnish?
Ekapeli is an educational game intended for children, especially those with problems with reading and writing Finnish. There are different versions for native Finnish speakers and for immigrants. The ...
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Is there a reference that classifies books on grammar according to the major type of grammar the authors espouse?
Is there a comprehensive reference that classifies books on English grammar according to the major type of grammar (reference, transformational, relational, head-driven case structure ... ) the ...
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How do language learners identify "good" language models to imitate?
The company I work for provides educational resources for teaching English in a variety of classrooms across India. Some of these classrooms are in very remote rural and tribal areas. We've seen a lot ...
