Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Constraints and Difficulties in the Process of Writing Acquisition
Abstract Writing is considered one of the most difficult language skills to be acquired but also taught. However, at present it is one of the most used forms of communication thanks to the development of information and communication technologies....
2014 / Blanka Frydrychova Klimova -
Using Mechanical Turk to Obtain and Analyze English Acceptability Judgments2011 / Edward Gibson, Steve Piantadosi, Kristina Fedorenko
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Possible Effects of Free on Line Data Driven Lexicographic Instruments on Foreign Language Learning: The Case of Linguee and the Interactive Language Toolbox
Abstract In this article we will examine whether certain data driven dictionaries can improve user-friendliness and usability –in a broader sense- of lexicographic instruments used in language learning, as well as enhance positive features such as...
2013 / Kris Buyse, Serge Verlinde -
Chinese-Korean Translation of Proper Person and Place Names in the Buddhist Scriptures
Abstract In the translation of Buddhist scriptures, proper person and place names are transferred by transcription, substitution, and meaning-based translation. These translation methods are for preserving their inherent forms and meanings and...
2013 / Yoon-cheol Park -
Affective Factors Involved in Learning a Foreign Language
Abstract Acquisition of a foreign language represents an intensively studied issue, its psychological foundation being based on the individual differences of various learners. The learning process depends on a series of factors: cognitive factors...
2014 / Ramona Henter -
Boekbespreking: Van der Wal, Marijke, De voortvarende zeemansvrouw. Openhartige brieven aan geliefden op zee.2014 / Ulrike Vogl
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A Proposal for the Detection and Classification of Discourse Errors
Abstract Our interest lies in error from the point of view of language in context,therefore we will focus on errors produced at the discourse level. The main objective of this paper is to detect discourse competence errors and their implications...
2013 / Eva M. Mestre Mestre, María Luisa Carrió-Pastor -
Janick Auberger ; Peter Keating . Histoire humaine des animaux, de l'Antiquité à nos jours . 277 pp., illus., bibl. Paris : Ellipses , 2009 . €24 (paper).2011 / Harriet Ritvo
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Pragmatics of Yes/No Indirect-responses (YNIRs)
Abstract How do people transmit information with “question-answer” structures? What happens when a speaker utters a meaningful question and the hearer understands it? The present paper focuses on YNIRs in terms of (a) a radical lack of consensus...
2013 / Aygün Hassanova, Hüseynağa Rzayev -
The Impact of Pre-task Planning on the Fluency and Accuracy of Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Performance
Abstract Task planning has attracted considerable attention from researchers during the last twenty years. Accordingly, the present study was designed to investigate the impact of pre-task planning (PTP) on the fluency and accuracy of 40 Iranian EFL ...
2013 / Mortaza Abdi, Hedayat Eslami, Yagoub Zahedi -
John Fowles and ‘The Magic Web of Storytelling’
Abstract The strategies that Fowles conceives to construct his textual worlds represent the most complex side of his highly original work which moulds the old humanist values of the traditional novel into new, more experimental forms. The present...
2013 / Cristina Mălinoiu Pătraşcu -
Empathy Levels and Academic Achievement of Foreign Language Learners
Abstract Students’ empathy levels and their achievement in foreign language learning were correlated in this study. Mehrabian and Epstein's (1972) measure of empathy was used to measure students’ levels of empathy. The means of sixty-seven...
2012 / Filiz Yalcin-Tilfarlioglu, Arda Arikan -
Cognition and conversation2006 / J. Potter
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“I’m Glad I was Designed”: Un/Doing Gender and Class in Susan Price’s “Odin Trilogy”2012 / Sanna Lehtonen
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'Struggling with Language': Indigenous movements for Linguistic Security and the Politics of Local Community2006 / R. L. Nichols
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Investigating the Effect of Video Captioning on Iranian EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension
Abstract The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of the video captioning on Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension. A total of homogenized students in a private English language institute in Ilam, Iran (Safir English language...
2015 / Habib Gowhary, Zeinab Pourhalashi, Ali Jamalinesari, Akbar Azizifar -
Far from obvious: the semantics of locative indefinites2015 / Sela Mador-Haim, Yoad Winter
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Translation of English Passive and Unaccusative Verbs into Farsi: A Comparative Study of Three Translations of ‘Animal Farm’ by Three Iranian Translators
Abstract Translation should be done by considering the function of a text in the two languages. Verbs can be regarded as the main argument in translation because of their crucial function in the text. Translation of some verbs, like passives and...
2014 / Akbar Abbasi, Fateme Mirjani Arjenan -
On the Iranian Language Learners’ Reaction to Learning English Cultural Elements
Abstract Learners define the target culture differently hence each have certain attitudes towards the target language, determining how much they learn. This study assessed 244 Iranian EFL learners’ reactions to learning English cultural elements...
2014 / Rahman Sahragard, Fatemeh Rakhshandehroo, Mohammad Ali Izadpanah -
Characters in Process in The Color Purple
Abstract Alice Walker's The Color Purple deals with the notion of sexism, racism and gender discrimination and their negative psychological effects on women's mind. In this novel, Walker criticizes all kinds of discriminations. The characters,...
2014 / Rosli Talif, Kamelia Talebian Sedehi