Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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On Acquiring New Vocabulary of a Professional Text
Abstract The paper is focused to teaching professional German. The introductory part of the paper shortly indicates the differences between the methods of acquiring vocabulary at secondary school and at university. A student́s personality, his...
2012 / Sarka Hubackova, Ilona Semradova -
Teaching Punctuation in Early Modern England2011 / Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez
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Iranian EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate and Language Learning Orientations
Abstract Willingness to communicate (WTC) has been defined as the intention to initiate communication, given a choice. It was speculated that orientations toward language learning would affect students’ WTC in a foreign language (FL). Being that,...
2014 / Sima Modirkhameneh, Ali Firouzmand -
The Effect of Grammatical Consciousness-raising Tasks on Iranian EFL Learners’ Knowledge of Grammar
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Grammar Consciousness Raising (GCR) tasks can have a more significant effect on the grammatical knowledge of learners than Presentation-Practice-Production (PPP) approach. To this aim, 62 ...
2014 / Seyyed Mohammad Reza Amirian, Samira Abbasi -
Building a Bridge between Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Abstract The modern life of the 21st century world not only postulates a multicultural, global world that is devoid of strict borders, but also a global world in which the individuals experience similar forms of lives. In relation, Arthur Miller's...
2013 / Esin Kumlu -
Inflected/Non-inflected Infinitive Alternation in Causative and Perception Constructions of Contemporary European Portuguese: A Corpus-based Study
Abstract In contemporary European Portuguese, causative and (direct) perception constructions represent two syntactic contexts in which an alternation between inflected and non-inflected infinitive exists. Aiming to find a ratio governing such an...
2013 / Giulia Bossaglia -
Exploiting Films in Detecting Semilingualism among Multilingual Speakers in Kazakhstan
Abstract In the era of globalization and international communication speaking a few languages has become rather a necessity than an advantage, and multinational multilingual Kazakhstan is no exception. However, proficiency in the verbal...
2014 / Arman Argynbayev, Dana Kabylbekova, Yusuf Yaylaci -
Speaking Anxiety in a Foreign Language Classroom in Kazakhstan
Abstract As I reviewed the literature and deepened on research methodology principles, I used the original study as a starting point to voice Kazakh anxious language learners out about the issue. The given research conducted on speaking anxiety...
2013 / Ziash Suleimenova -
Foreign Language Anxiety of English Language Teacher Candidates: A Sample from Turkey
Abstract This study aimed to investigate English language teacher candidates’ language learning anxiety and reveal whether there was a significant relationship between foreign language learning anxiety and independent variables such as gender, age...
2013 / Murat Hismanoglu -
Formation of Balanced Bilingualism of Professional Translators
Abstract The article deals with the issues of translators’ bilingualism, its formation in the process of professional translators’ training as well as the aspects of translation equivalents and switching between languages. A special complex of...
2014 / Tamara S. Serova -
Translation as a pedagogical tool in the foreign language classroom: A qualitative study of attitudes and behaviours2014 / N. Kelly, J. Bruen
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Der Unterschied in Der Keimungsgeschwindigkeit Der Männchensamen und Weibchensamen Bei Melandrium2010 / C. Correns
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Peer-tutoring and Tertiary ESL Learners
Abstract This paper intends to describe the nature of activities conducted, tutor factors, English language use, and benefits of the peer- tutoring program. Tutor's participant-observation and tutees’ responses to interviews were gathered and...
2013 / Nurhidayah Mohd Sharif, Mohamad Hassan Zakaria, Wan Fara Adlina Wan Mansor, Norul Alima Nordin, Ng Siew Fong, et al. -
Literary Translation and Soviet Cultural Politics in the 1930s: The Role of the Journal Internacionalʼnaja literatura
Abstract Until the late 1930s, the import, translation and dissemination of foreign literature in the Soviet Union was surprisingly free. Archival documents demonstrate that individual translators and successive editors of the journal...
2012 / Nailya Safiullina, Rachel Platonov -
Investigating the Effects of Two Types of Feedback on EFL Students’ Writing
Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the effect(s) of providing feedback on EFL students’ writing performance at Islamic Azad University of Hamedan. To do this, 60 EFL students enrolled in Advanced Writing classes, in which the...
2012 / Darush Ahmadi, Parviz Maftoon, Ali Gholami Mehrdad -
Short Notes on Discourse, Interlanguage Pragmatics and EFL Teaching: Where do We Stand?
Abstract The present paper aims to shed light on the relation which exists between discourse, pragmatics, culture and the possibility of integrating these three components in the language classroom. It stresses the need for adopting a purely...
2012 / Bel Abbes Neddar -
Emerging Profiles for Cultured Meat; Ethics through and as Design2013 / Cor van der Weele, Clemens Driessen
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Normdatenpflege in Zeiten der Automatisierung. Erstellung und Evaluation automatisch aufgebauter Thesaurus-Crosskonkordanzen / Authority data maintenance in times of automation. Creation and evaluation of automatically established cross-concordances between controlled vocabularies / La gestion de notices d’autorité à l’époque de l’automatisation. Création et évaluation de correspondances entre thesauri générés de façon automatique2013 / Andreas Oskar Kempf, Benjamin Zapilko
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Interactive Language Learning through Speech-Enabled Virtual Scenarios2012 / Hazel Morton, Nancie Gunson, Mervyn Jack
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Tracking word frequency effects through 130years of sound change
Abstract Contemporary New Zealand English has distinctive pronunciations of three characteristic vowels. Did the evolution of these distinctive pronunciations occur in all words at the same time or were different words affected differently? We...
2015 / Jennifer B. Hay, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Abby J. Walker, Patrick LaShell