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You can enter terms related to characteristics of the participants and languages featured the research. By using the terms below, the search results will show you the summaries that have been tagged with that metadata by the uploader.

#age: adolescent, adult, young #educational stage: preschool, "primary / elementary school", kindergarten, "secondary / high school", tertiary, university #gender: male, female, mixed #feature being learned: animacy, figurative language, grammar (morphosyntax), lexis (vocabulary), nonwords, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, syntax) #context of language use: academic, "higher education", home, "residence abroad", school, friends, family, work #institutional characteristics: "adult education", "Bi-multilingual education", "charter school", "ethnoculturally affiliated", "non-formal", "supplementary", "privately-funded", "publicly-funded", rural, "special needs", "teacher education", "urban", "vocational"

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