Studies in Language, Discourse and Society

Negotiating language in family texts: case-study of transnational families in Finland

Bloch, G.

Transnational families face complex language dynamics, particularly when adapting to new linguistic environments. This study examines text messaging practices of six bilingual Russian-Hebrew-speaking parents and their multilingual children living in Finland. Through micro-interactional approach, it investigates how digital translingual practices function as a tool in constructing unique familylect... [see more]

Exploring the impact of family background and English as a foreign language teachers’ feedback literacy on undergraduates’ critical thinking styles (PMC XML)

Ma, W., Li, Y., Xu, X., Huang, Y., Pan, Y., Li, Y.

Introduction The present study investigated the relationship between family background and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ feedback literacy on the critical thinking styles of undergraduates in Chinese universities. Methods We collected data from 1,454 undergraduates using the validated measures of the validated measures of the University of Florida Critical Thinking Inventory (UF... [see more]

Associations between music training and language fluency on cognitive control and processing speed (publisher XML)

Bugos, J., Laubisch, K., Zhu, A., Avendaño, J., Bryant, J.

Introduction Scientific research has demonstrated that musical training and bilingualism contribute to enhanced executive functions (D’Souza et al., 2018). However, it is unknown whether fluency in three or more languages would confer additional cognitive benefits above bilingual and musician status. According to Patel’s OPERA Hypothesis, music shares many similar components of language and also ... [see more]

Associations between music training and language fluency on cognitive control and processing speed (PMC XML)

Bugos, J., Laubisch, K., Zhu, A., Avendaño, J., Bryant, J.

Introduction Scientific research has demonstrated that musical training and bilingualism contribute to enhanced executive functions (D’Souza et al., 2018). However, it is unknown whether fluency in three or more languages would confer additional cognitive benefits above bilingual and musician status. According to Patel’s OPERA Hypothesis, music shares many similar components of language and also ... [see more]

Mapping ASR systems onto the human auditory spectrum: speech-in-noise recognition of Arabic in normal-sighted, blind, and hearing-impaired listeners

Aldholmi, Y.

Background/objectives This study examines how human listeners and automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems process speech under varying background noise levels. Methods Three groups of human participants—normal-sighted (NSLs), blind (BLs), and hearing-impaired listeners (HILs)—were compared with two state-of-the-art ASR systems, Whisper and TurboScribe. Forty Arabic sentences (20 imperative, ... [see more]

Asymmetrical cross–linguistic semantic activation in Portuguese–English–Chinese trilinguals: evidence from masked translation priming

Yu, L., Kong, Q.

Research on multilingual semantic representation has largely focused on Indo-European languages, with limited evidence from typologically distant systems. The present study examines Portuguese–English–Chinese trilinguals using a masked translation priming paradigm to investigate whether semantic activation is directionally asymmetrical and how language distance and status influence trilingual proc... [see more]

Emotional intelligence and language learning performance of EFL learners in China: chain mediating effects of willingness to communicate and foreign language learning boredom

Wang, R., Xu, Q.

Introduction Emotional intelligence (EI) has been widely recognized as a key affective factor in second language (L2) learning, yet its underlying mechanisms remain insufficiently explained. Drawing on Control–Value Theory (CVT), this study conceptualizes EI as a distal resource that enhances control–value appraisals, thereby fostering communicative engagement and mitigating negative achievement ... [see more]

Exploring the impact of family background and English as a foreign language teachers’ feedback literacy on undergraduates’ critical thinking styles (publisher XML)

Ma, W., Li, Y., Xu, X., Huang, Y., Pan, Y., Li, Y.

Introduction The present study investigated the relationship between family background and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ feedback literacy on the critical thinking styles of undergraduates in Chinese universities. Methods We collected data from 1,454 undergraduates using the validated measures of the validated measures of the University of Florida Critical Thinking Inventory (UF... [see more]

Sustained neural rhythms reveal endogenous oscillations supporting speech perception

van Bree, S., Sohoglu, E., Davis, M., Zoefel, B.

Rhythmic sensory or electrical stimulation will produce rhythmic brain responses. These rhythmic responses are often interpreted as endogenous neural oscillations aligned (or “entrained”) to the stimulus rhythm. However, stimulus-aligned brain responses can also be explained as a sequence of evoked responses, which only appear regular due to the rhythmicity of the stimulus, without necessarily inv... [see more]

Editorial: Shared representations of phonological variation across registers

Pellegrini, R.