Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Collaboration of Translators with Medical Authors: A Qualitative Enquiry into Writing Articles in English2013 / Nematullah Shomoossi
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The Promise and Peril of Anecdotes in News Coverage: An Ethical Analysis2011 / D. A. Craig
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Using Comics with Novice EFL Readers to Develop Reading Literacy
Abstract The study concentrated on the possible effects of using authentic comics with EFL learners. It examined the strategies applied by novice readers in reading comics with the special focus on lexical guessing using context. The data for this...
2015 / Ivana Cimermanová -
On the L2 Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Inversion
Abstract This study explores the acquisition of Spanish subject-verb inversion in wh-questions by Dutch L2 learners. The optional or obligatory application of this rule in Spanish wh-questions depends on the argument versus adjunct status of the...
2015 / Alexia Guerra Rivera, Peter Coopmans, Sergio Baauw -
The semantics of slurs: A refutation of coreferentialism
Abstract Coreferentialism refers to the common assumption in the literature that slurs (e.g. faggot) and descriptors (e.g. male homosexual) are coreferential expressions with precisely the same extension. For instance, Vallee (2014) recently...
2015 / Adam M. Croom -
Integrating Corpus Linguistics in Critical Literacy Pedagogy: A Case Study of Lance Armstrong's Transformation from a Titleholder to a Fraud
Abstract The study examines the integration of corpus linguistics in critical literacy pedagogy. It stems from the Multiliteracies approach that advocates the need for technologically advanced strategies of teaching to complement the knowledge of...
2015 / Raith Zeher Abid, Shakila Abdul Manan -
Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Beliefs about Language Learning, their Language Learning Strategy Use and their Language Proficiency
Abstract This study aimed at collecting data from a group of 203 Iranian undergraduate learners of English concerning their beliefs about language learning through Horwitz's (1987) “Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory”, concerning their...
2011 / Atieh Abedini, Ali Rahimi, Abbas Zare-ee -
Tradition or Modernism in Grammar Teaching: Deductive vs. Inductive Approaches
Abstract This research is an investigation of the differences between inductive and deductive methods in teaching grammar to adult learners in terms of effectiveness on academical success. Another aim of the study is to investigate the perceptions...
2015 / Kubra Sik