Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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A Comparative Study of Student's Engagement with their School Grounds Through a Lexicon of Emotions
Abstract This paper reports a lexicon of emotional associations made by 10-11 year old students with their school grounds. Colour and symbol associations were used as a stimulus for getting students to engage with their school grounds, describe...
2012 / Päivi Vesala, Patrick Dillon -
Augmented realities and uneven geographies: exploring the geolinguistic contours of the web2013 / Mark Graham, Matthew Zook
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Electoral Talks of Iranian Presidential Candidates in 2013
Abstract On Friday, 14 June 2013 one of the most significant events of Iran and the Middle East happened: the presidential election of Iran. The 11th president of Iran started his term on 3rd August 2013. The election was in fact a competition...
2015 / Habib Gowhary, Farahnaz Rahimi, Akbar Azizifar, Ali Jamalinesari -
Contrastive Studies on Proverbs
Abstract Folk proverbs and sayings are an integral part of the spiritual treasures of the culture and language of the people, the age-old wisdom and skills used by them - an important part of the culture of human language. In fact, the main purpose...
2014 / Kanat Syzdykov -
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Researching Personal Epistemologies in Higher Education
Abstract With this paper, we share some of the results of a post-doctoral research project investigating the epistemic beliefs of Romanian medical students and how these operate within the context of learning English for medical purposes. A battery...
2014 / Creţu Ioana -
Willingness to communicate of EFL learners in Turkish context
Abstract This study reports on findings of an investigation into English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' (N=134) perceptions of willingness to communicate (WTC) in Turkish context. The participants completed questionnaires on WTC,...
2015 / Hüseyin Öz, Mehmet Demirezen, Jafar Pourfeiz -
Book Review: Magic at Every Age2015 / S. L. Memering, V. A. Weekes-Shackelford, T. K. Shackelford
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What Do Girls Do When Boys Are Away?: The Domain of Women in "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald2013 / J. A. Assadi
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Integrating listening and speaking skills to facilitate English language learners’ communicative competence
Abstract Listening and speaking skills co-occur in real-life discourse and they are not mutually exclusive. Within this framework, this study is conducted to prove that teaching listening and speaking skills in integration improves oral...
2011 / Zekiye Müge Tavil -
Can language learning strategies predict Turkish university prep class students’ achievement in reading comprehension?
Abstract The purpose of this study is to explain and predict the relation between Turkish university prep class students’ language learning strategies and achievement in reading comprehension in foreign language. The subjects participated in the...
2011 / Mustafa Onur Cesur -
Critical feedback on peer review research
Abstract The use of peer review in second language writing has been a quite popular topic in the writing research for the past two decades. However, the question posed here is: Does peer review impact the quality of student writing? The purpose of...
2011 / Yin Ling Cheunga -
Thinking and Self-Teaching2006 / Gilbert Ryle
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Ways of Teaching James Joyce's Works
Abstract As a result of my experience in teaching twentieth century English literature to Romanian students, my paper will present ways of teaching James Joyce's works, being structured into two parts: the first focuses on the means used to elicit...
2013 / Florentina Anghel -
Boekbespreking - Bart Bossers, Folkert Kuiken en Anne Vermeer (red.), Handboek Nederlands als tweede taal. Bussum, Coutinho, 2010. 422 pp. ISBN 978 9046 902 035. € 44,50.2014 / Pierre Godin
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COMP IN BAVARIAN SYNTAX2009 / JOSEF BAYER
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Correlates of L2 Writing Ability of Iranian Students Majoring in English
Abstract The ability to write in English is considered to be a major asset to the students majoring in English as a second/foreign language (L2). However, not all the students enjoy the same level of L2 writing ability in spite of the courses they...
2014 / Mahboobeh Saadat, Majid Fayaz Dastgerdi -
Examining the Role of the English Literature Component in the Malaysian English Curriculum
Abstract This paper examines the role and the position of the English Literature component in the current Malaysian English curriculum. A brief historical overview of the role and the position of English literature in the Malaysian curriculum will...
2014 / Paramjit Kaur, Nooraida Mahmor -
Dissemination of Human Values: Discourse Analysis of Global Educational Media Texts
Abstract The failure of the last century is not in teaching language skills but in disseminating human values necessary for people to live in harmony in the world. Media is an important means through which human values can be disseminated. With a...
2014 / Abduljalil Hazaea, Noraini Ibrahim, Nor Fariza Mohd Nor -
Second Language Learners’ Knowledge of Syntax in the Acquisition of Aspectual Semantics
Abstract Telicity (a type of aspectual semantics information) is a syntax-semantics interface property, its semantics standardly being analyzed as the product of syntactic operations. We aimed to find out whether second language learners‟...
2013 / Bin Yin, Elsi Kaiser