Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers: Student Perceptions in Vietnam and Japan2014 / I. Walkinshaw, D. H. Oanh
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Argumentation Across L1 and L2: Examination of Three Instructional Treatments of Genre-based Approach to Teaching Writing
Abstract The aim of the current study is twofold: first, as bidirectional transfer has not been a common object of inquiry, the present study attempted to fill this gap by examining how bidirectional transfer occurs in the English and Persian...
2014 / Farzaneh Khodabandeh -
Quantifiers in a Spanish and German Comparable Corpus: A Contrastive Study of Economic Texts in On-line Media
Abstract This paper explores the use of quantifiers in economic texts in a comparable German-Spanish corpus. First, previous quantification studies were reviewed in order to acquire a valid classification for quantifiers in both languages. Secondly, ...
2013 / Ana Medina Reguera, Alice Stender -
“A Course in Theoretical Chinese Grammar”: Principles and Contradictions
Abstract The paper explores the basic principles of “A Course in Theoretical Chinese Grammar” published in Russia as a schoolbook (2005, 2006). Theoretical Grammar is an obligatory course, and the challenge was to create a complete integral...
2014 / Vladimir Kurdyumov -
Macrolinguistic Errors in Arab EFL Learners’ Essays
Abstract This study attempts to identify the errors that Arab EFL learners commit in writing English essays at the macrolinguistic level. It also tries to determine the causes of these problems and propose remedial strategies. More specifically...
2014 / Shehdeh Fareh -
Instructional uses of linguistic technologies
Abstract The earliest and most basic linguistic technologies are frequency lists and the concordance lines from a corpus. Although these technologies have been available for many years we are only now discovering their uses in language instruction....
2010 / Thomas Cobb -
Self revelation in samuel beckett's language
Abstract The playwright in the Theatre of the Absurd is in pursuit of expressing existential themes in a world lacking an integrating principal which has turned disjoined, meaningless, and aimless. Samuel Beckett, the prominent figure of this...
2011 / Saeid Rahimipoor, Henrik Edoyan, Masoud Hashemi -
A pragmatic approach to translation: a case study of deictic expressions in translations of hafiz
Abstract In the present world, with the huge amount of cultural exchanges between nations and countries happening, Literary Translation can act as a very useful approach toward introducing our native culture to the world and finding a proper place...
2011 / Mehdi Zandi, Masoud Azizinezhad -
Vocal Clarity Through Drama Strategy
Abstract Theatre based voice training techniques have been associated with actors and singers mostly. However, they can also help benefit second language learners. This paper aims to describe theatre based voice training techniques and investigates...
2012 / Joanne Thirsk, Hilal Gulseker Solak -
Foreign language learners’ beliefs about language learning: a study on Turkish university students
Abstract The present study addresses the differences and similarities among English, German, and French language groups’ beliefs about language learning. The participant students (n=343) completed Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI)...
2009 / Sibel Ariogul, Dalim Cigdem Unal, Irem Onursal -
Terror and the Notification of Anxiety in Postmodern Gothic
Abstract There was a virtual explosion in the last two decades in academic and scholarly works of Gothic. In this way, there have been various critics to codify the features and history of Gothic and its correlated genres in literature. The...
2013 / Shahram Afrougheh, Reza Abouheidari, Hossein Safari -
Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination2010 /
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'It has to Mean Something...': Reading the Success of the Italian Soap Opera Vivere2005 / E. Giomi
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Between Habits of the Heart and Copulation of Clichés: Some Popular American Stories, Mores and Shibboleths2013 / Janusz Semrau
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Pointing and reference reconsidered
Abstract Current semantic theory on indexical expressions claims that demonstratively used indexicals such as this lack a referent-determining meaning but instead rely on an accompanying demonstration act like a pointing gesture. While this view...
2015 / Andy Lücking, Thies Pfeiffer, Hannes Rieser -
The Role of Direct and Indirect Written Corrective Feedback in Improving Iranian EFL Students’ Writing Skill
Abstract The call for longitudinal evidence on the efficacy of written corrective feedback (WCF) for ESL and EFL writers has been made repeatedly since Truscott (1996) claimed that it is ineffective, harmful, and therefore; should be abandoned....
2014 / Manijeh Hosseiny -
The Effect of Planning and Monitoring as Metacognitive Strategies on Iranian EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing Accuracy
Abstract One of the most problematic areas for foreign language learning is writing. Writing is the most sophisticated and complex achievement of the language system (Lerner, 1997). Writing requires the activation and coordination of orthographic,...
2014 / Esmaeil Panahandeh, Shahram Esfandiari Asl -
Lern- und Bildungsprozesse im Lebenslauf – Befunde empirischer Forschung und Perspektiven der Theorieentwicklung2015 / Cornelia Maier-Gutheil
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Becoming a junior teacher
Abstract This study presents a programme in which eight grade students were provided to have teaching experiences with third grade students in a state school in Istanbul, Turkey. The aim of the study is to give the students a place in the community...
2010 / Merve Oflaz -
Learning through MOOing
Abstract Though many schools and universities are today connected to the Internet, its technologies are still not adequately integrated into classroom teaching and learning. Many teachers think in rather restricted ways about using online tools and...
2011 / Sarah Merrouche