Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Corpus-based vocabulary lists for language learners for nine languages2013 / Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, et al.
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Exploring Transitivity Alternations across Dialects: A Preliminary Approach
Abstract Even though the weight of classical conceptions of transitivity is still sensed, current trends in the study of such notion have revealed that clear-cut classifications of verbs as either transitive or intransitive should be abandoned....
2013 / Tania de Dios -
La generación de la comida basura: Americanisms in a Corpus of Spanish Obesity News
Abstract The Spanish national press regularly publishes news about health and nutrition research conducted in the USA and in doing so, the Spanish language has readily accommodated many American English (AmE) lexical creations. In this study 54 AmE...
2013 / Debra Westall -
Coping with the Knowledge Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach of Teaching English in a Technical University
Abstract The present-day Digital Age with its fast-developing knowledge society calls for an interdisciplinary approach of teaching a foreign language in a technical university. To cope with the knowledge society, teaching a foreign language for...
2014 / Simona Elisabeta Catana -
Attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca
Abstract There are now more nonnative speakers of English than native speakers, and the number of nonnative speakers is growing rapidly. Together with the growth of nonnative speakers of English, the roles and functions of English have also changed, ...
2014 / Paramjit Kaur -
The Application of Improved Metaphor Analysis in Education Research
Abstract This article aims to investigate the potentials of the method of metaphor analysis used to explore the belief systems of the participants of education processes. It introduces a new instrument called improved metaphor analysis (IMA), which...
2013 / Gyöngyi Fábián -
Variable binding and coreference in sentence comprehension: Evidence from eye movements
Abstract The hypothesis that pronouns can be resolved via either the syntax or the discourse representation has played an important role in linguistic accounts of pronoun interpretation (e.g. Grodzinsky & Reinhart, 1993). We report the results...
2013 / Ian Cunnings, Clare Patterson, Claudia Felser -
Translating the other: Marlow’S Discourse between Imperial Rhetoric and Primary Orality2015 / Ana Cristina Băniceru
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DIE CHROMOSOMENZAHL VON ALECTOROLOPHUS UND SAISON-DIMORPHISMUS2010 / FOLKE FAGERLIND
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The capabilities of computers for language learning
Abstract Computer as a medium for language learning has been acknowledged by many educators in the past years. Using computers for language learning has proved not only interesting but also positive and stimulating for many language teachers and...
2011 / Babak Ghasemi, Masoud Hashemi, Simin Haghighi Bardine -
Surveying Techniques for Cultural Problems of Children Comic Strips Translation
Abstract Comic strips, as we know today, have been around for over one hundred years. As a global phenomenon, comics enjoy a prominent place in translation studies. However, it should be pointed out that different cultures produce different comic...
2011 / Hengameh Honarvar, Ali Rahimi -
'I Am the Ultimate Challenge': Accounts of Intersectionality in the Life-Story of a Well-Known Daughter of Moroccan Migrant Workers in the Netherlands2006 / M. Buitelaar
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CLIL and Teacher Training
Abstract It is difficult to follow the rhythm of development, technology, and change. Life is always steps ahead of us and we have to struggle not to stay behind and time is never enough to get sufficient qualifications. Foreign languages help us...
2011 / Rozeta Çekrezi / Biçaku -
Acquisition of English ergative verbs by Turkish students: yesterday and today
Abstract This study tries to diagnose the acquisition of a special subclass of intransitive verbs, namely ergatives, by Turkish learners of English by comparing the (partial) results of the study carried out in 2000 (as an MA Thesis) with the...
2009 / Abdullah Can -
The rhythm in the corridors of Virginia Woolf's mind
Abstract Virginia Woolf was one of the most distinctive writers of the English Literature using the stream of consciousness technique masterfully. The stream of consciousness technique is one of the most challenging narrative techniques in writing....
2009 / Sinem Bezircilioğlu -
Translation and Ideology: A Critical Reading
Abstract The recent interest in the relation between translation and ideology led to the following project based on a comparative analysis among the Italian short novel for children Pinocchio and its three translations (English, Russian and Turkish) ...
2013 / Anna Valerio -
A Comparative Study of Listening Anxiety and Reading Anxiety
Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among gender, education level and language anxiety, specifically associated with two major language skills i.e. listening and reading. Participants in this study were 159 EFL...
2013 / Seyit Ahmet Capan, Mehmet Karaca -
Centering: A Parametric Theory and Its Instantiations2004 / Massimo Poesio, Rosemary Stevenson, Barbara Di Eugenio, Janet Hitzeman
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Sophie Calle's art of following and seduction2005 / Janet Hand
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Modern Information and Communication Technologies in the Development of Learners’ Discourse Skills
Abstract This paper addresses the issue of students’ discursive skills development via new modern information and communication technologies (ICT). The authors discuss the notion of discourse, define the structure of the discourse competence, and...
2014 / Pavel V. Sysoyev, Ilona A. Evstigneeva, Maxim N. Evstigneev