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This article explores how Chinese danmuers perceive sex-related language in contemporary China through a critical discourse analysis of danmu comments on the subtitling in the first season of Friends, a renowned American TV sitcom re-broadcast in 2022 by one of the Chinese video-sharing platforms, Bilibili. Linguistically, the study examines danmuers’ attitudes towar...


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Interpreting quality is often discussed in relation to users’ perceptions, yet most user-oriented evidence is derived from surveys or experiments that only partially capture the way evaluation unfolds under broadcast and platform conditions. This article examines the real-time reception of simultaneous interpreting in a digitally mediated public event, focusing on a ...


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Despite the crucial role of listening in second language (L2) learning, understanding the impact of different listening modalities remains an ongoing challenge. This issue has become even more relevant as language learning increasingly takes place in digital environments rich in multimodal input, where learners must process and make meaning from the interaction of au...


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For decades, bilingualism has been a topic of interest in speech perception research. Published studies aim to explain whether and how one can acquire phonological categories from an additional language that are not present in the first one. There is also an ongoing hypothesis that the size of second-language vocabulary contributes to the effective acquisition of L2 ...


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Early language education has become a global phenomenon, yet research on teacher conceptualizations in this area remains limited. This qualitative study examines teacher conceptualizations of the differences in teaching English when education begins in first versus third grade. The study is based on survey data, which were analysed through reflexive thematic analysis...


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