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The Construct of Language Proficiency

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks · 1992

This books aims to open up new perspectives in the study of language proficiency by bringing together current research from different fields in psychology and linguistics. All contributions start out from empirical studies, which are then related to applications in language assessment. The book also serves as a survey of recent developments in psycholinguistic research in the Netherlands. The book starts out with a thorough introduction of international literature on models of language proficiency, language development and its assessment. Section 1 deals with first language proficiency and addresses such problems as grammar in early child language, grammatical proficiency and its (in)variance across a range of ages, reading abilities, and writing skills. Section 2 focuses on multilingual proficiency and deals with test bias in relation to the background of the second language learner, bilingual proficiency in ethnic minority children, the development of the second language learner lexicon, communicative competence of school-age children in the context of second language learning, the assessment of foreign language attrition and the dimensionality in oral foreign language proficiency.

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A Language Construct for DMIs

A. F. Zorzo · 2000

Dependable Multiparty Interacion (DMI) has recently been introduced as a mechanism that provides reliable interaction between participants. Specifically, a DMI is a multiparty interaction mechanism that provides facilities for handling concurrent exceptions and assuring consistency upon leaving the interaction. This paper describes how the DMI mechanism can be added to a programming language.

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Associations as a language construct

Kasper Østerbye · 1999

A cornerstone in the object-oriented paradigm is the abstraction mechanisms transcending analysis, design, and implementation. The notions of class, object, behaviour, and inheritance are supported in both design notations and through programming language constructs in object-oriented languages. An association is a declarative mechanism to associate objects, and it is well known from analysis and design notations. However, associations are not matched by a programming language construct. This paper eliminates the semantic gap between design and implementation by proposing a programming language construct to support associations directly. An important issue in designing such a language construct is to make it as efficient and flexible as a manual translation to pointers and containers, and that it gives added benefits compared to a manual translation. Our association compiler can generate code that is as efficient as hand produced code, and it is our experience that it is easier to make changes to program structure and implementation when using language supported associations. 1.

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Associations as a language construct

Kasper Østerbye · 2003

A cornerstone in the object oriented paradigm is the abstraction mechanisms transcending analysis, design, and implementation. The notions of class, object, behaviour, and inheritance are supported in both design notations and through programming language constructs in object oriented languages. An association is a declarative mechanism to associate objects, and it is well known from analysis and design notations. However, associations are not matched by a programming language construct. The paper eliminates the semantic gap between design and implementation by proposing a programming language construct to support associations directly. An important issue in designing such a language construct is to make it as efficient and flexible as a manual translation to pointers and containers, and that it gives added benefits compared to a manual translation. Our association compiler can generate code that is as efficient as hand produced code, and it is our experience that it is easier to make changes to program structure and implementation when using language supported associations.

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A functional language to construct proofs

Reif, W., Stephan, W. (Karlsruhe Univ. (T.H.) (Germany). Inst. fuer Informatik 1), Heisel, M. et al. · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1986

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The construct of foreign language aptitude

Lani Freeborn, Sible Andringa, Judith Rispens · Arabixiv (OSF Preprints) · 2022

This project is part of a PhD research project funded by the University of Amsterdam. The aim of this PhD project is to explore the construct of foreign language aptitude from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective. More specifically, we aim to test Richard Snow's (1989, 1992) theory of aptitude complexes, conceptualising aptitude as a complex system formed out of interactions between cognitive, affective, and conative components. To empirically model this theory, we plan to use network analysis. By creating a network model of partial correlations, we aim to assess the relative contribution of cognitive, affective, and conative individual differences to language learning gains. We will update this folder throughout the project.

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The construct of foreign language aptitude

Sible Andringa, Judith Rispens, Lani Freeborn · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2026

This project is part of a PhD research project funded by the University of Amsterdam. The aim of this PhD project is to explore the construct of foreign language aptitude from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective. More specifically, we aim to test Richard Snow's (1989, 1992) theory of aptitude complexes, conceptualising aptitude as a complex system formed out of interactions between cognitive, affective, and conative components. To empirically model this theory, we plan to use network analysis. By creating a network model of partial correlations, we aim to assess the relative contribution of cognitive, affective, and conative individual differences to language learning gains. We will update this folder throughout the project.

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Construct in Assessments of Spoken Language

Susy Macqueen · 2021

Abstract Language assessment constructs conjoin two complex, dynamic phenomena: collective patterns of language use and individual language ability. Assessment constructs emerge from “spheres of activity” across multiple, overlapping dimensions, denoted in this chapter as theoretical, operationalized, stated, and perceived constructs. While theoretical constructs are assumptions about what causes differences in scores, the operationalized construct is what actually emerges in the interaction between the assessee and the assessment infrastructure. Stated constructs are descriptions of what the assessment claims to assess, and perceived constructs are the ways these statements are interpreted. Interrogating the congruence of these dimensions has the potential to provide a holistic view of the development, experience, use, and impact of assessment constructs across diverse stakeholder worlds.

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Construct validation of a language inventory

Drennan, Margaret Louise Cheney · Scholarly Commons (University of the Pacific) · 1969

Language is the all-encompassing term used in many places and having various denotations. For this reason language has uses, too. Oral language is used as a principal factor to determine cultural disadvantage and is the primary medium of instruction in the school setting. Language operates as the intangible aspect in measurements of intelligence. The term 'language development' is used whenever one refers to the merits of federally funded preschool projects and is accepted without definition while the counter term 'linguistics' brings confusion in the mind of many classroom teachers and administrators. Commercial materials carry the label "linguistic method" or a "language development program" for a specific population. For educators 'language' is a loose, all powerful term which needs to be limited in meaning to a specific set of principles.

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The construct of foreign language aptitude

Judith Rispens, Lani Freeborn, Sible Andringa · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2022

This project is part of a PhD research project funded by the University of Amsterdam. The aim of this PhD project is to explore the construct of foreign language aptitude from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective. More specifically, we aim to test Richard Snow's (1989, 1992) theory of aptitude complexes, conceptualising aptitude as a complex system formed out of interactions between cognitive, affective, and conative components. To empirically model this theory, we plan to use network analysis. By creating a network model of partial correlations, we aim to assess the relative contribution of cognitive, affective, and conative individual differences to language learning gains. We will update this folder throughout the project.

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“Institutionalized” Imaginary: Language as a Social Construct

Lombardinilo Andrea · Iris (Roma Tre University) · 2021

This essay aims to highlight the sociological approach to the “institutionalization” of socialization and its roots in language development. First and foremost, the state of consciousness can be objectified through selecting and combining words in accordance to the semiotic complexity being that is part of the linguistic process. This can be analyzed through the insights brought forward by some sociologists (e.g. Berger and Luckmann, Barthes, Baudrillard, Elias, Goffman, Wright Mills). A link between language, irrationality and imaginary can be found in order to probe the social application of the language and its aura of complex meaning and symbolic trajectories. Hence follows the study of language as a “reversal of the past” and means of psychic development as well as the search for meaning bound to mould everyday “institutionalized” imaginary.

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Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct

Charles L. Nagle, Mary G. O'Brien, Sara Kennedy et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2020

Trofimovich, P., Nagle, C. L., O’Brien, M. G., Kennedy, S., Taylor Reid, K., & Strachan, L. (in press, 2020). Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation.

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Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct

Mary G. O'Brien, Pavel Trofimovich, Sara Kennedy et al. · OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2022

Trofimovich, P., Nagle, C. L., O’Brien, M. G., Kennedy, S., Taylor Reid, K., & Strachan, L. (2020). Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 6, 430–457. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20003.tro

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An elementary language construct for parallel programming

Tom Axford · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1990

Current programmig practice, whether in procedural, functional or other types of languages, is strongly orientated to producing programs which are essentially sequential in nature. Procedural programmers make frequent use of loop structures (e.g. FOR and WHILE statements), while functional programmers use raw recursion instead. Neither of these mechanisms can be easily compiled into parallel code. It is suggested that there may be considerable advantages in avoiding the use of loop structures in procedural languages and raw recursion in any type of language. Instead, programs could be written using a general divide-and-conquer construct which is typically just as easy to use, but allows easy parallel implementation. A number of simple examples are given to show how this could be done and to provide evidence that the idea is not quite as outrageous as it may seem at first sight.

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