Languages and literature topic list of research papers
-
Whatsapp, Textese, and Moral Panics: Discourse Features and Habits Across Two Generations
Abstract This essay sets out to compare discourse features and communicative practices in the use of textese in Whatsapp across two different generations. Textese, and other ways of online writing, has been associated with plenty of voices...
2015 / Alfonso Sánchez-Moya, Olga Cruz-Moya -
An Investigation of Undergraduates’ Language Learning Strategies
Abstract Learning strategies are steps taken by students to enhance their own learning. Strategies are especially important for language learning because they are tools for active, self-directed involvement, which is essential for developing...
2015 / Karatas Hakan, Balyer Aydin, Alci Bulent -
Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety: The case of Spontaneous Speaking Activities
Abstract There is a great deal of research focusing on speaking anxiety and yet there are relatively few studies suggesting ways how teachers can help learners cope with this problem. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify whether the...
2014 / Özlem Yalçın, Volkan İnceçay -
The Impact of Phrasal Verb Avoidance on the Writing Ability of the University EFL Learners
Abstract This study endeavors to investigate the impact of phrasal verb avoidance on the writing ability of Persian learners of English. To accomplish this, three elicitation tests were administered, eliciting preference for either a phrasal verb or ...
2014 / Behzad Barekat, Berjis Baniasady -
Motivational Orientation and EFL Learning: A Study of Iranian Undergraduate Students
Abstract Research on language learning motivation has been augmented in the EFL context which reflects its significance as a socio-psychological factor in learning English as a foreign language. Due to the meager amount of work done on the issue in...
2014 / Yazdan Choubsaz, Yassaman Choubsaz -
Developing English Linguistics Students’ Translation Competence through the Language Learning Process
Abstract This study aims at demonstrating that students of linguistics need to develop their translation competence alongside their linguistic competence. My approach starts from the assumption that the process of language learning comprises other...
2013 / Teodora Popescu -
Target Situation as a Key Element for ESP (Law Enforcement) Syllabus Design
Abstract Adaptation to the Bologna Process involved an in-depth curriculum reform in the Training Centre for the Spanish National Police Corps. The subject “English” underwent a profound paradigm shift from general English to ESP. Needs analysis...
2015 / Gabriela Torregrosa Benavent, Sonsoles Sánchez-Reyes -
Extended 2-tuple linguistic hybrid aggregation operators and their application to multi-attribute group decision making2013 / Fanyong Meng, Jie Tang
-
Getting the whole story: an experience report on analyzing data elicited using the war stories procedure2011 / Susan Elliott Sim, Thomas A. Alspaugh
-
The Interactive Effects of Pragmatic-Eliciting Tasks and Pragmatic Instruction2009 / Yoshinori J. Fukuya, Alicia Martínez-Flor
-
The Effects of Captioning on EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension
Abstract This study investigated the effects of English captions, Turkish captions, or no captions on the listening comprehension of intermediate and low-intermediate level EFL learners. A total of 30 Grade-8 primary school students participated as...
2013 / Hülya Felek Başaran, Gül Durmuşoğlu Köse -
Positional Analysis of Temporal Adverbials in Macedonian and English – the Case of Macedonian (The Possibility of Adverbial WO Preferences in a Free WO Language)
Abstract Macedonian is a south-Slavic analytical language and displays a free WO sentential model, with an objective general scheme of SVO and a major role of the functional sentence perspective in the lining of constituents. Adverbials, especially...
2013 / Jovanka Jovanchevska-Milenkoska -
Language learning strategies and suggested model in adults processes of learning second language
Abstract Language learning strategies have crucial values for second language learners because they are means for activity and self –evaluation. These strategies can help to progresses and these communicating competences. In regard to the importance ...
2011 / Masoud Gholamali Lavasani, Fereshteh Faryadres -
The pronunciation of the inter-dental sounds of English: an articulation problem for Turkish learners of English and solutions
Abstract The inter-dental consonant phonemes like /θ/ and /δ/ have always created pronunciation problems for Turkish learners of English in that these two sounds are non-existent as phonemes or sounds in the sound system of the Turkish language. The ...
2009 / Murat Hismanoglu -
Intra-sentential and Inter-sentential Code-switching in Turkish-English Bilinguals in New York City, U.S
Abstract This study explores patterns of intra-sentential and inter-sentential code-switching (CS) that are manifest in the speech of Turkish-English bilinguals in New York City, U.S. and investigates the influence of language proficiency on...
2013 / Didem Koban -
Vowel Reduction in Kermanian Accent
Abstract The purpose of this paper is investigating vowel reduction in Kermanian accent. Vowel reduction is a process which occurs in an unstressed syllable. It leads to change unstressed vowels and tend them to other vowels. In order to investigate ...
2014 / Vahideh AbolhasaniZadeh, Maryam Abdolalizadeh, Azadeh Sharifi Moghadam -
Foreign Language Learning Demotivation: A Construct Validation Study
Abstract Demotivation is an issue, which has been recently the focus of attention in the field of second language (L2) learning and teaching [8] (Muhonen, 2004). Since the present researchers failed to find any studies conducted in this area in...
2014 / Tahereh Afrough, Ali Rahimi, Mehrdad Zarafshan -
Learner Autonomy and its Implementation for Language Teacher Training
Abstract We think that he Romanian educational system today should put more emphasis on differentiating and catering for individual learners with different abilities and individual interests. Therefore, the present paper focuses on how to increase...
2013 / Adriana Lazăr -
The Effect of Unfocused Written Corrective Feedback on Syntactic and Lexical Complexity of L2 Writing
Abstract Written corrective feedback (henceforth CF) has been an issue of substantial controversies and debates. Although the focus of current CF studies has primarily been on grounding the value of focused CF, evidence on the benefits of unfocused...
2014 / Ali Mohammad Fazilatfar, Nader Fallah, Mahnoosh Hamavandi, Morteza Rostamian -
Hidden nominal structures in Japanese clausal comparatives2014 / Yasutada Sudo