Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of English language teaching in English language institutes in Mardan
Abstract The scope of English language is widening day by day. There are various English language institutes working in Mardan city. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the course content, class activities and adopted...
2011 / Zafar Iqbal Khattak, Mudassar Usman, Rovaid Khan, Gulfraz Abbasi, Ayaz Ahmad -
Intensified Reduplicated Adjectives in Azarbaijani Turkish
Abstract This paper presents a general overview of different types of reduplication in Azarbaijani Turkish which is an agglutinative language and the main focus of this study is on one of the more interesting Turkish adjectival constructions which...
2013 / Nasser Abbasi, Elahe Moradkhani -
A Survey of the Cohesive Ties - Reference and Lexical Cohesion- in History Books of the Second and Third Grades in Guidance School in Iran
Abstract Halliday and Hassan believe that cohesion is one of the most important characteristics of a text and using cohesive ties –reference and lexical cohesion – make a text easy to understand. Providing school books that are easy to understand...
2012 / Akram Korani -
Book Review: A THIRD WAVE: ABOUT THE POLITICS OF PROCLAIMING A `NEW' FEMINISM Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie and Rebecca Munford, eds Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration, expanded 2nd edn Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 310 pp., ISBN-13 978-0-230-52174-22008 / C. Scharff
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The English Discourse Particle ‘oh’ in Spanish Translations: Evidence from a Parallel Corpus
Abstract This paper explores the translations of the English discourse particle oh into Spanish. Discourse particles are particularly problematic in translation because of their multi-functionality, their high degree of grammaticalization, and their ...
2015 / Noelia Ramón -
On Paraphrase and Coreference2010 / Marta Recasens, Marta Vila
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Reading Movies, Watching Novels
Abstract The qualitative research was carried out in a private institution of higher learning. The participants were undergraduates who volunteered for the research. The participants read a canonical text and data were collected from the...
2014 / Rajandaran Perumal -
Reading Salman Rushdie's Memoir
Abstract This paper looks into Salman Rushdie's latest book, his memoir titled Joseph Anton. Rushdie put off writing his story of the fatwa years until September, 2012, when Joseph Anton came out. The title is a conflation of the first names of two...
2013 / Dana Bădulescu -
On the Rise of Nominalizers in Korean: Grammaticalization of Cikyeng ‘Boundary’ and Yang ‘Shape’
Abstract Korean is a dynamic language which exhibits the development of a variety of lexical nouns into grammatical markers. Among the many examples in the Korean language, some forms such as cikyeng ‘boundary’ and yang ‘shape’ show intriguing...
2013 / Junghye Baik -
Problems of Translation Theory and Practice: Original and Translated Text Equivalence
Abstract The conceptual approach to the translation phenomenon is viewed as a deep integration of national cultures, and their interactions. Literary translation should be considered in the context of literary interaction as a part of multi-ethnic...
2014 / Burbekova Saule, Nurzhanova Aisulu -
How to Read Probability Distributions as Statements about Process2014 / Steven Frank
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The specification of the difficulties in the perception and articulation of the English schwa phoneme by Turkish English teachers and students
Abstract “The term schwa, comes from Hebrew, where it means ‘emptiness’ and designates a Hebrew vowel of the same quality” (Skander and Burleigh, 2005:37). The schwa sound, whose symbol is [ə] in the IPA system, does not exist in modern standard...
2010 / Mehmet Demirezen -
Making a shift towards new CMC modes
Abstract This study examines the perceptions of Turkish nonnative speakers of English (NNSsT) concerning asynchronous mode of communication. Turkish nonnative speakers of English, native speakers of English (NSs) and nonnative speakers of English in ...
2010 / Eray Sevingil, Yasemin Bayyurt -
An integrative proposal to teach the pragmatics of phatic communion in ESL classes2013 / Manuel Padilla Cruz
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Toward a sociocultural approach to feedback provision in L2 writing classrooms: the alignment of dynamic assessment and teacher error feedback2013 / Parva Panahi, Parviz Birjandi, Behrooz Azabdaftari
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Coordinate compounding in English and Spanish2012 / Vincent Renner, Jesús Fernández-Domínguez
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Evaluation of four coursebooks in terms of three speech acts: Requests, refusals and complaints
Abstract This study set out to find out to what extent English language learners at TOBB University of Economics and Technology Preparatory School in Ankara, Turkey can perform strategies of three specific speech acts, i.e. requests, refusals and...
2011 / Büşra Delen, Zekiye Müge Tavil -
Language education in Iran: A dialogue between cultures or a clash of identities
Abstract Learning about another culture is an integral component of learning a foreign language. The mission of developing an effective intercultural communication, as a result, has become one of the paramount concerns of language courses in many...
2011 / Shabnam Mokhtarnia -
Possibilities of Positive Influence on the Attitude of Students Towards Poetry
Abstract In the course of the research focused on the reception of poetry and the possibilities how to influence it, we observed the classes in eight experimental classrooms and monitored the possibilities of building positive attitudes towards...
2013 / Jaroslav Vala, Kateřina Ďoubalová, Jana Sladová, Vlasta Řeřichová -
Building a Corpus of 2L English for Automatic Assessment: The CLEC Corpus
Abstract In this paper we describe the CLEC corpus, an ongoing project set up at the University of Cádiz with the purpose of building up a large corpus of English as a 2L classified according to CEFR proficiency levels and formed to train...
2015 / Ma ÿngeles Zarco Tejada, Carmen Noya Gallardo, Ma Carmen Merino Ferradá, Ma Isabel Calderón López