Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Teaching learners to appropriately mitigate requests2007 / E. Uso-Juan, A. Martinez-Flor
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Development of Thai University Students’ Beliefs about Language Learning: A Longitudinal Study
Abstract Learners’ beliefs about language learning are considered very important, yet their developmental nature still remains mostly unexplored. The purpose was to examine how Thai students change their beliefs about language learning after...
2015 / Takayoshi Fujiwara -
Managing resource ecologies for mobile, personal and collaborative self-directed language learning
Abstract MiLexicon is an innovative handheld system that helps self-directed learners employ personal learning environments in their language learning. We conducted interviews with experienced language learners in order to investigate the resources...
2012 / Joshua Underwood, Rosemary Luckin, Niall Winters -
Language Learning and Intercultural Communicative Competence: An Action Research Case Study of Learners of Portuguese
Abstract This paper is the intermediary report of an ongoing case study into the learning of a new foreign language (Portuguese) from beginner's level by first-year students at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, National Research Tomsk State...
2015 / Peter J. Mitchell, Luciano Aguiar Pardinho, Nataliya N. Yermakova-Aguiar, Lev V. Meshkov -
Mutual intelligibility between West and South Slavic languages2015 / Jelena Golubović, Charlotte Gooskens
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Using an Argument-based Approach to Ensure Fairness of High-stakes Tests’ Score-based Consequences
Abstract This study seeks to expand research in the area of test fairness by the application of an argument-based approach to test fairness, developed by Xi (2010), to samples of standardized high-stakes tests of IELTS and TOEFL iBT. The target...
2014 / Forough Rahimi, Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri, Firooz Sadighi, Lotfollah Yarmohammadi -
The Pronunciation Problems for Turkish Learners in Articulating of the Diphthongs in English Learning
Abstract In our modern and digital world, learning English at the upper-intermediate and the advanced levels is inevitable necessity for everybody to learn in terms of every skill, such as, speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Pronunciation,...
2014 / Mehmet Deniz Demircioglu -
Learning to become users of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): How ELF online communication affects Taiwanese learners' beliefs of English
Abstract In most online intercultural exchange activities involving English learning, students and classes in English-speaking countries serve as partners to English learners in expanding-circle countries. Most studies on such exchanges focus on...
2014 / I-Chung Ke, Hilda Cahyani -
Visual language in Mamluk architecture: A semiotic analysis of the Funerary Complex of Sultan Qaitbay in Cairo
Abstract Cultural background plays a significant role in the sphere of visual art. Semiotics as a discipline is recognized as a useful tool in gauging cultural background and identifying signs that might represent the message of a certain work....
2013 / Nelly Shafik Ramzy -
Towards a Reflexive Ethnography: (Re-)inserting the Producer and Process Into the Research Equation2015 / Sam Pack
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Conditionals from a Linguistic Point of View: Two Case Studies2015 / Katrin Schulz
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Boekbespreking - Rudi Malfliet, Van den vos Reynaerde: de feiten. Antwerpen, Garant, 2010. ISBN 978 9044 125 696. € 32.2014 / Orsolya Réthelyi
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Understanding the personhood of Deaf people with dementia: Methodological issues
Abstract This article concerns Deaf people in the United Kingdom, who use sign language, who have a formal diagnosis of dementia and who have participated in interviews in British Sign Language (BSL) about their experience of living with dementia....
2014 / Alys Young, Emma Ferguson-Coleman, John Keady -
Aan lage rugpijn gerelateerde beroepsziekten in Nederland: (1) Een instrument voor de beoordeling van de werkgerelateerdheid van aspecifieke lage rugklachten2014 / Harald Miedema, Henk van der Molen, Paul Kuijer, Bart Koes, Alex Burdorf
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Douglas Walton, Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation2008 / M. Lewiński
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Keeping the vision alive: Maintaining motivation and promoting effective learning
Abstract In this article, I’d like to consider two key factors which affect motivation: expectancy of success and the value attached to success. I suggest that if the connection between classroom activities and an overall language learning goal is...
2010 / Annie McDonald -
ESL and EFL Learners Improve Differently in Pronunciation: The Case of Lebanon
Abstract Many ESL/EFL students in Lebanon reach the university level with poor English in general and underdeveloped phonetic competence in particular. Phonetic competence is one of the abilities to communicate regarding pronunciation skills (Saz,...
2015 / Hanadi S. Mirza -
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Speech-Act-Sets: The Case of Apologies2014 / Silvie Válková
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“To What Extent are Postgraduate International Students at Sunderland University Intrinsically Motivated in Learning English?” and “Is There a Difference Between Male and Female Students in Terms of Their Intrinsic Motivation?”
Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the motivation need in learning English language for postgraduate international students’ at University of Sunderland. This study consist of 70 students from University of Sunderland in the United...
2012 / Guliz Ozuturk -
Enhance Chinese Students’ Initial Motivation Through Communicative Activities based on Cefr and Elp Purposes. Case Study at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Abstract This article describes how French language tutors at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China have used different tools to shape the French language curriculum to improve communicative language competences and motivation. The French...
2012 / Filippo Gilardi