Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Using Metaphor to Explore the Professional Role Identities of Higher Education English Language Instructors
Abstract While the teacher professional role identity of pre-service English Language teachers has gained popularity recently, that of practicing teachers is less well-researched. This study aims to reveal how a group of Turkish university English...
2012 / Amanda Yesilbursa -
An investigation of the role of instruction in second language production: A case of third person singular -s
Abstract In this study researchers sought to find a relationship between second language instruction and learners’ productive use of 3rd person singular -s. Researchers collected written data from 151 participants in two phases in three different...
2011 / Amirali Mohammadkhani, Samaneh Eslamdoost, Sepideh Gholamreza’i -
Cultural effects of L2 learning: a case study of Iranian learners learning English
Abstract The present research aimed to seek if the learners of English taught special books (Interchange) would finally come to perceive the cultural issues differently from those not yet treated with the books. To perform the study, a researcher...
2011 / Gholam Reza Zarei -
The typology of Slavic aspect: a review of the East-West Theory of Slavic aspect2015 / Egbert Fortuin, Jaap Kamphuis
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Linguistic Prosody and Comprehension of Idioms and Proverbs in Subjects of School Age
Abstract A crucial component of language is represented by the prosodic system because it provides essential elements to speaker about how a sentence should be interpreted or intended (Fodor, 2002). Increasing interest from researchers also relates...
2013 / Agata Maltese, Lidia Scifo, Anna Fratantonio, Annamaria Pepi -
The use (and misuse) of English in urological papers2011 / Robert Grange
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The making of JALL: Its beginnings and intellectual foundations2010 / Paul Newman
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Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories2010 / P. Heggarty, W. Maguire, A. McMahon
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Transfer of Arabic Formulaic Courtesy Expressions Used by Advanced Arab Learners of Spanish
Abstract In Spain and Arab countries, the way of celebrating feasts and occasions is gathering with family and enjoying a meal together. In this communicative situation, compliments on the delicious food prepared will take place. ...
2015 / Ana Ramajo Cuesta, María Cecilia Ainciburu -
Dickens, the suspended quotation and the corpus2012 / M. Mahlberg, C. Smith
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An Investigation into the Genre Features of Funeral Announcements: People's View in Social Communications in Focus
Abstract Genres are essentially defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings (Bathia, 1997). Generally speaking, funeral ceremonies, as a type of communicative setting, are composed of major communicative events ...
2014 / Ali Reza Jalilifar, Masoud Varnaseri, Soheil Saidian, Saeed Khazaie -
Point of View in Narrative Discourse
Abstract Having a storyteller is a vital element for any story: a narrative voice, real or implied, that presents the story to the reader. When we talk about narrative voice we are talking about point of view, the method of narration that determines ...
2014 / Ivdit Diasamidze -
Developing Oral Skills Through Skype: A Language Project Analysis
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse L2 usage in the oral interaction between university students from Hong Kong and Spain. With that research focus on mind, we carried out a Skype-mate Language Project, which purpose was to enhance oral...
2014 / Lidia Taillefer, Rosa Munoz-Luna -
Discovery Listening and Explicit Strategy-Based-Instruction Models’ Effect on the Iranian Intermediate EFL Listening Comprehension
Abstract The study aims to compare the effect of Discovery Listening (DisL) with explicit Strategy-Based Instruction (SBI) on the Iranian EFL listening comprehension (LC). The participants were 79 students at a university in northern Iran. The main...
2012 / Amir Marzban, Fereshteh Isazadeh -
Some suggestions about the high school literature curriculum and education in Turkey
Abstract As disciplines such as modern linguistics, structuralism, semiotics, narratology, pragmatics developed in 20th century, some big changes occurred in social sciences. Western World reflected the new knowledge, method and perspectives which...
2010 / Bahar Dervişcemaloğlu -
How do monolingual and bilingual language learners differ in use of learning strategies while learning a foreign language? Evidences from Mersin University
Abstract This study investigates the difference between monolingual and bilingual learners in terms of use of the language learning strategies. The participants of the study were monolingual and bilingual students, making a total number of 246 (162...
2009 / Ufuk Tuncer -
Sharing Roles in the Classroom: Everyone is a Teacher, Everyone is a Learner
Abstract In this paper I will discuss results of classroom-based research I undertook in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms at two universities in Mexico. The data collected was written responses from the adult learners as to their...
2012 / Kimberly Anne Brooks-Lewis -
Religious Terminology Facing Communist Ideology
Abstract It is a matter of common knowledge that the communist ideology was against any form of religious behaviour while communism itself was attempting to become some sort of religion for its followers. The most important difference between...
2013 / Gina Necula -
Post-Soviet emptiness (Vladimir Makanin and Viktor Pelevin)
Abstract Emptiness is a key word in several post-Soviet Russian novels of the late 1990s. One can find it as well in Vladimir Makanin's “Underground” as in two novels written by Viktor Pelevin, “Generation ‘P’” and “Chapaev and Emptiness”. After the ...
2012 / Hans Günther -
Intercultural Design Education
Abstract This paper appraises design studies as part of teacher education and they are seen here as both a product and a process. Concept design has been applied when teaching the process of designing a product and paying attention to the viewpoint...
2012 / Martina Paatela-Nieminen