Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Tree Unification Grammar
Abstract This work presents a lexicalized grammar formalism which can be seen as a variant of multi-component tree adjoining grammar (TAG). This formalism is well-suited for describing the syntax of German because it relates a syntactic dependency...
2005 / Kim Gerdes -
The Use of Discourse Markers in Spanish Language Learners’ Written Compositions
Abstract The present paper reports on the use of discourse markers in short compositions written by Spanish language learners. The aim is to explore how frequently discourse markers appear in written productions of foreign language learners and to...
2013 / An Vande Casteele, Kim Collewaert -
How L1 Influence Changes with Regard to L2 Proficiency Increase
Abstract The research is being carried out in the form of seven in-depth longitudinal case studies with EFL teachers at different levels of teaching experience. Research data are being collected via a variety of ethnographic research instruments,...
2014 / Ahmad Hadadi, Hamed Abbasi, Ahmad Goodarzi -
Dependent plural pronouns with Skolemized choice functions2014 / Yasutada Sudo
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The Influences of Learners’ Basic Attributes and Learning Histories on L2 Speech Fluency: A Case Study of Japanese and Chinese Learners of English
Abstract Although the importance of fluency in L2 use by learners is widely acknowledged, what determines fluency and how we can develop fluency is not necessarily clear. In the current study, we examined the influences of sixteen indices of basic...
2015 / Shin’ichiro Ishikawa -
Minority language standardisation and the role of users2014 / Pia Lane
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The Victorian Diary: Between the Public and the Private2010 / Anne-Marie Millim
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Learner autonomy in the language classroom: From teacher dependency to learner independency
Abstract The field of language education has for the last three decades been witnessing the debate over the issue of learner autonomy. The present study is a literature review of learner autonomy focusing on highlighting the main themes of learner...
2009 / İlknur Pekkanli EGEL -
A research on blogging as a platform to enhance language skills
Abstract The incorporation of asynchronous computer-mediated communication in the classroom is currently in need of research. In the present study we observe the effect of the implementation of this technique to improve writing and students’...
2010 / Begoña Montero-Fleta, Carmen Pérez-Sabater -
The Fundamentals of Constructing a Hermeneutical Model for Poetry Translation
Abstract Poetry translation involves certain complexities that cannot be easily tackled through the methods developed by linguistics. Such problems as authorial intention, the aesthetical and rhetorical value of translated works, bicultural...
2013 / Mohammad Ali Kharmandar, Amin Karimnia -
Operationalizing and measuring language dominance2011 / J. Treffers-Daller
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Book review: Meaghan Morris, Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture. London: Sage, 2006. 250 pp. ISBN 9780761961154 (hbk) 70.00; ISBN 9780761961161 (pbk) 21.992007 / G. Turner
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Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change2010 / R. V. Sole, B. Corominas-Murtra, J. Fortuny
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Approaches to Ergativity in Indo-Aryan2010 / Krzysztof Stroński
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Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Language Learning Styles, Writing Proficiency and Self-assessment
Abstract This study attempted to explore the preferred language learning styles of a group of Iranian EFL learners and differences in the styles of learners with different L2 writing proficiency levels. Moreover, the study examined differences...
2014 / Rahman Sahragard, Omid Mallahi -
Lexical Interferences of Kazakh-Russian Bilingual Children of Preschool Age: A Sociolinguistic Survey
Abstract After gaining its independence, Kazakhstan, like any other post-soviet republics, gained a range of new characteristic features one of which is a Kazakh (autochthon) and Russian bilingual society. The article deals with the problems closely ...
2013 / Aidyn Aldaberdikyzy -
An Analysis of Research Production in Corpus Linguistics Applied to Translation
Abstract The aim of the paper is to analyze with data the consolidation of corpus methods in translation and to specify which issues are under research and the features that characterize these studies. To that end, different contributions to corpus...
2013 / Miguel A. Candel-Mora, Chelo Vargas-Sierra -
Subtitling: The Transfer of Culture-specific Words in a Multidimensional Translation
Abstract The following article is focused on particularities of transferring culturally marked words in the subtitled translation from English into Russian and Romanian. In the first part of the study the authors outline the analysed type of...
2014 / Valentina Shiryaeva, Georgiana Lungu Badea -
Groping for a new English teaching strategy
Abstract By the time a student reaches college, he or she has studied English for approximately ten years. As if that were not sufficient, English education continues for up to two additional years in college. The outcome of these years of arduous...
2014 / Jae Ik Moon -
Genre Analysis of Appeal Letter Writing by Iranian Students
Abstract This paper introduces some generic characteristics of appeal letters written by EFL Iranian students in a public university in Malaysia. And it tries to investigate if appeal letters written by Iranian students display a consistent generic...
2011 / Ali Derahvasht