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TITLE:   Development of voice onset time in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children DATE OF READING: 31 JANUARY 2021 Authors:  Margaret Kehoe, Kopika Kannathasan Published:  January 2021 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Lingua" Volume 252, 102937 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102937 Summary:  The key point of the journal is the research that examined Voice Onset Time (VOT) in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children, aged 3 to 6 years, and in monolingual adults. Children and adults played a Memory game in which they produced target words containing stop consonants in word-initial position. Analyses examined the effect of bilingualism and control variables on positive VOT values and on the presence of lead voicing. Results indicated that both adults and children produced VOTs in the intermediate range. In addition, Bilingualism had a minor effect on VOT acquisition. Personal comment:  An interesting article showing how much i

TITLE:   Digital reading in a second or foreign language: A systematic literature review DATE OF READING: 24 JANUARY 2021 Authors:  Manon Reiber, Marijike Kral, Paulien Meijer Published:  January 2021 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Computers&Education" Volume 163, 104115 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104115 Summary:  The journal focuses on digital reading in a second or foreign language. The reviewed literature in 2020 revealed several characteristics of second language environments, tasks and readers. Features have evolved around different reading goals, navigation elements and features of digital texts, information management and interactions. They also included language proficiency and reading levels; readers' perceptions of self-efficacy, locus of control and themselves as second language readers; and the knowledge of readers, lexical and world. It also turned out that there are gaps in the literature regarding the application of

TITLE:   Brain activity predicts future learning success in intensive second language listening training DATE OF READING: 17 JANUARY 2021 Authors:  Mayumi Kaijura, Natasha Y.S Kawata, Ryuta Kawashima Published:  January 2021 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Brain&Language" Volume 212, 104839 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104839 Summary:  In journal is showed research that show how prior knowledge gained from pre-listening transcript reading helps comprehend fast-rate speech in a second language and applies to learning called L2. Prior experience of top-down predictive processing can play an important role in interpreting L2 expression and enhancing listening skills. By manipulating the pre-listening transcript effect  and type of languages, they measured brain activity in L2 learners, who performed fast-rate listening comprehension tasks during functional magnetic resonance imaging.  Analysis found that activity in these fields correlates str

TITLE:   Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone DATE OF READING: 11 January 2021 Author:  Andrew D.Wong Published:  January 2021 Name of the Academic Journal:  ScienceDirect, "Language&Communication" Volume 79, 131-135 Source:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.11.005 Summary:  The key point of the journal how Chinese go through an examination of the language ideologies and practices of those who are arguably on its margins. Chineseness may simply be defined as the quality or state of being Chinese, this basic description belies a host of ethnic, racial, and political meanings that the concept has accrued in various places over time. The six ethnographic cases presented in this issue not only shed light on how language mediates the relationship between race, ethnicity, and nationality, but also reveal the myriad ways in which ideologies of language, race, and nation work together to produce a variety of racial and ethnic subject posit