Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Individual determinants of research utilization by nurses: a systematic review update1)2013 / JE Squires, CA Estabrooks, P Gustavsson, L Wallin, Catharina van Oostveen, et al.
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The Effects of Teacher-Written Direct vs. Indirect Feedback on Students’ Writing
Abstract This study investigated the effectiveness and efficacy of teacher's direct vs. indirect feedback on students’ composition writings in an EFL context. Two classes (each class 10 students) of female intermediate students in a private English...
2015 / Ali Jamalinesari, Farahnaz Rahimi, Hsbib Gowhary, Akbar Azizifar -
Teaching English Abstract Writing Effectively
Abstract The knowledge of formal writing is very important in present global world. However, it is the skill which usually receives little attention. Therefore the aim of this article is to demonstrate how to teach formal writing, particularly the...
2015 / Blanka Frydrychova Klimova -
Politeness in Adaptation of Persian Multimodal Texts: The Case of “Half Life2”Videogame
Abstract Audiovisual translation is a different form of translation in that visual aspects of an image need to be taken into consideration. The aims of the current study were 1) investigating the factors of using adaptation strategy in Persian...
2015 / Farkhondeh Touiserkani -
Dialectal Variation in a Nineteenth-Century Catalan Grammar Corpus
Abstract One of the main objectives currently developed by the LEXDIALGRAM project is the creation of a grammar corpus obtained from digitizing Catalan dialect works that were written during the nineteenth century. Digitized materials are included...
2013 / Maria-Pilar Perea, Manel Sifre -
A Study of Compliment Responses in English: A Case of North Cyprus
Abstract Individuals often apply the sociolinguistic norms of their primary language to the patterns of response in a second language. The purpose of this study is to assess the compliment responses of native and non-native Turkish ELT students in...
2015 / Esen Sucuoğlu, Nesrin Menemenci Bahçelerli -
Effects of the growth of breath capacities on mean length of utterances: How maturing production processes influence indices of language development
Abstract Measures of “mean length of utterance” (MLU) involving morpheme counts in transcripts are widely applied to speakers of all ages and are generally interpreted as an index of developing grammar. Yet no study has examined how the growth of...
2015 / Victor J. Boucher, Brigitte Lalonde -
“‘Look More Closely,’ Said Mum”: Mothers in Anthony Browne’s Picture Books2015 / Vanessa Joosen
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Persuasive Style and its Realization Through Transitivity Analysis: A SFL Perspective
Abstract Leech & Short (2007) claim that examining the language of a literary text can lead to a fuller understanding of the text and thus appreciation of the writer's artistic achievement. Accordingly, this paper explores the relationship...
2014 / Laya Heidari Darani -
The Relation Between MI and Motivation and Students’ Likes and Dislikes of Course Books: A Comparison Between Interchange and Top Notch Elementary Books
Abstract One of the most compelling, yet controversial new approaches to educational reform is Multiple Intelligences Theory, or MI. Recent advances in cognitive science, developmental psychology and neuroscience suggest that each person's...
2011 / Mohammad Amiryousefi, Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi -
In Defense of Concordancing: An Application of Data-Driven Learning in Taiwan
Abstract Data-Driven Learning (DDL) is an approach in which the language learners are also research workers whose learning is driven by access to linguistic data (Johns, 1991:2). This essay aims at evaluating the potential of the DDL approach using...
2011 / Hsing-chin Leel -
Learning English in Algeria Through French-based Background Proficiency
Abstract With globalization leading to an ever-increasing connectedness of the world, learning a foreign language has become a requirement rather than an indulgence. Yet, learning a second and/or a third language may present a challenge and the...
2015 / Mohammed Nassim Negadi -
Revisiting Genre Analysis: Applying Vijay Bhatia's Approach
Abstract This paper presents an application of Vijay Bhatia's genre analysis. A move analysis and a multidimensional analysis was conducted using a compiled representative corpus; COREWIC. As a descriptive analysis, it explored the written...
2013 / Manvender Kaur Sarjit Singh, Sarimah Shamsudin, Yasmin Hanafi Zaid -
Neurological and developmental outcome in extremely preterm children born in England in 1995 and 2006: the EPICure studies2013 / T Moore, EM Hennessy, J Myles, SJ Johnson, ES Draper, et al.
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Love Poetry, Women's Bonding and Feminist Consciousness: The Complex Interaction between Edna St Vincent Millay and Adrienne Rich2005 / A. Michailidou
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A Squandered Opportunity: A Response to “Examining Practical, Everyday Theory Use in Design Research”2017 / Deirdre Barron
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Linguistic Policies for Teaching Spanish L2 in European Education Systems
Abstract This article focuses on the description of linguistic policies carried out by the EU for the study of second languages in Europe, and the way in which the different countries in the union have integrated them into their education systems. ...
2015 / Esperanza Falcón, Francisco Lorenzo -
Communicating the Ineffable. A Pragmatic Account of Literariness
Abstract The notion of literature or poetry is based on the intuition that there is a qualitative difference between “literary” and other kinds of discourses. Only recently have philosophers of language and pragmaticists begun to acknowledge this...
2014 / Sabina Longhitano -
Personality and Individual Differences: Literature in Psychology- Psychology in Literature
Abstract Literature, which intertwines within such fields as history, philosophy, sociology, psychology and so on, is a discipline wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, existence and culture. The objective of...
2015 / Goksen Aras -
Cultural Issues and Teaching Literature for Language Learning
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of incorporating culturally-loaded materials like literature in EFL courses. We selected short story as an example of literature to be included in our course syllabus. After that,...
2014 / Arman Nasirahmadi, Fatemeh Alipour Madarsara, Hamed Rezapour Aghdam