Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Psychology of Translation in Cross-cultural Interaction
Abstract The world today is characterized by an ever growing number of contacts resulting in communication between people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This communication takes place because of contacts within the areas of...
2014 / Loreta Ulvydienė -
The Social Nature of Literary Translation in Kazakstan in XX Century
Abstract This article is devoted to the literary contribution of well-known Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev. His main contribution to Kazakh literature was his translations from Russian poets and writers. He was first who found the school of translation ...
2014 / M.T. Kozhakanova, T.U. Esembekov -
The Grammar Deployment Kit — System Demonstration —
Abstract Grammar deployment is the process of turning a given grammar specification into a working parser. The Grammar Deployment Kit (for short, GDK) provides tool support in this process based on grammar engineering methods. We are mainly...
2004 / Jan Kort, Ralf Lämmel, Chris Verhoef -
The Effect of Implicit and Explicit Types of Feedback on Learners’ Pragmatic Development
Abstract Having adopted a pretest- posttest design with a control group, this study investigated the effects of implicit and explicit corrective feedback on pragmatic development of Iranian EFL learners. Having received explicit instruction, forty...
2014 / Zahra Fakher Ajabshir -
Using listening journals to raise awareness of Global Englishes in ELT2014 / N. Galloway, H. Rose
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Narrative Accounts of Origins: A Blind Spot in the Intersectional Approach?2006 / B. Prins
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Toward Translating Design Constraints to Run-Time Assertions
Abstract Inconsistency between design descriptions and implementation might be reduced if constraints associated with entities (e.g., OCL assertions in UML) were propagated to run-time assertions in corresponding parts of an implementation. ...
2005 / Luciano Baresi, Michal Young -
Strong Update, Disposal, and Encapsulation in Bunched Typing
Abstract We present a bunched intermediate language for strong (type-changing) update and disposal of first-order references. In contrast to other substructural type systems, the additive constructs of bunched types allow the encapsulation of state...
2006 / Josh Berdine, Peter W. O'Hearn -
Manipulating cognitive complexity across task types and its impact on learners' interaction during oral performance2009 / Roger Gilabert, Júlia Barón, Àngels Llanes
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How parts of speech are learned? A lexical-driven or a structure-driven model
Abstract The paper investigates the possible facilitative approaches to parts of speech learning and the ways of interpreting them as functional categories rather than merely syntactic units. Participants in this study were 38 students of General...
2012 / Parvaneh Khosravizadeh, Roya Pashmforoosh -
The Significance of Self-Esteem in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Environment
Abstract Self-esteem is one of the psychological variables which a language learning and academic achievement. This study aims to demonstrate the significance of self-esteem in the process of language learning and highlights the importance of...
2013 / Maryam Tayebinik, Marlia Puteh -
Use of Literature in Teaching English
Abstract Teachers in general and English teachers specifically, are always concerned with the kind of material they are going to present to their students. One of the most challenging kinds of material for English classes is literature. Although...
2012 / Abdollah Keshavarzi -
Writing as Cultural Practice: Case Study of a Chinese Heritage School in Belgium
Abstract By critically assessing the Chinese language pedagogy in a Chinese heritage school in Brussels, we analyze how the school insists on teaching traditional Chinese characters, which are used in Taiwan, by emphasizing the significance of...
2012 / Hsiu-Pei Hsu, Ching Lin Pang, Wim Haagdorens -
Categorizing expressive speech acts in the pragmatically annotated SPICE Ireland corpus2015 / Patricia Ronan
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A Stylistic Analysis of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and its Turkish Translation
Abstract This study aims to analyze the short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and its Turkish translation placed in “Aşık Katiller Antolojisi” published by Everest Publishing from the stylistic perspective. This short story is a gothic...
2014 / Tuncay Tezcan -
'It is Historically Constituted': Historicism in Feminist Constructivist Arguments2005 / K. Honkanen
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Who's Afraid of Female Agency?: A Rejoinder to Gill2007 / L. Duits, L. van Zoonen
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Do Male Undergraduates Write More Argumentatively?
Abstract Research on linguistic variation across gender has focused mainly on oral language. However, second language (L2) writing research has began to explore gender as an important variable in the socio-cultural context of writers in the last few ...
2012 / Abbas Zare-ee, Sheena Kuar -
The Role of Formal Schemata in the Development of Précis Writing in an Iranian EFL Context
Abstract Background knowledge and learners’ familiarity with formal schematic knowledge is of primary importance for EFL learners in writing an acceptable summary. Schema theory can help instructors focus on the discrepancy between the prior...
2014 / Leila Ali Akbari Hamed, Biook Behnam, Mahnaz Saiedi -
Incorporating Frequency Information in a Collocation Dictionary: Establishing a Methodology
Abstract This paper describes the methodology applied to incorporate frequency information in the Diccionario de Colocaciones del Español, a dictionary developed within the framework of Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology. The main reasons for...
2013 / Orsolya Vincze, Margarita Alonso Ramos