Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Language Contact and Language Change in the History of the Sinitic Languages
Abstract The Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of speakers and in terms of geographic distribution. It includes the majority languages of China and Myanmar, plus minority...
2010 / Randy J. LaPolla -
The Particular Negative: A Distributional Study on Some Aspects of Meaning Contradicting Logical Equivalence
Abstract The main aim of this paper is to reflect upon some aspects of meaning related to two different ways of expressing the same proposition type in English. The proposition type under discussion is the particular negative, and it is accounted...
2015 / Alessandro Favaro -
Annotating expressions of Appraisal in English2010 / Jonathon Read, John Carroll
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The Text-structural Activities in ELT and (T)urkish (L)anguage (T)eaching
Abstract As a communicative unit, a text has a multi-layer structure. Text layers are relevant to competent systems in language acquisition: Microstructure for linguistic competence, macrostructure for communicative competence and superstructure for ...
2013 / Şükran Dilidüzgün -
Why should Literature be Used in the Language Classroom?
Abstract Communicative methodologies that emerged in the 1970s stress the importance of using authentic materials and activities in the classroom in order to help students achieve communicative competence that will enable them to use the language...
2012 / Nina Daskalovska, Violeta Dimova -
Possible effects of gender on teacher-student interactions
Abstract Scheduled teacher-student writing conferences between a fifth grade teacher and her language arts class were analyzed. Attention was given to four case study students to examine the influence of gender on the teacher-student interactions....
2011 / Ayşegül Bayraktar -
A cognitive study of colour terms in Persian and English
Abstract This study aims at conducting a contrastive study of colour metaphors in Persian and English within the framework of cognitive linguistics. To this end, it adopts primarily the revised model of Kövecses (2005), in which he treats metaphor...
2012 / Mohammad Amouzadeh, Manouchehr Tavangar, Mohammad A. Sorahi -
The Use of Literature in Developing Multicultural Sensitivity in Teacher Training
Abstract This paper explores the use of literature and writing as a learning tool in teacher education when learning about and developing an understanding of multiculturalism. My research studies how student teachers reflect on their own cultural...
2012 / Johanna Pentikäinen -
All's Fair in Love and War?: Representations of Prison Life in Silent Grace2008 / A. Blaney
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Exploring the Listening Processes of Pre-university ESL Students
Abstract To better prepare pre-university students for learning in the university setting, scholars have called for the critical examination of the basic language skills necessary for lecture comprehension. This call is also echoed in ESL listening...
2014 / Suchithra Nair, Yew Li Koo, Kesumawati Abu Bakar -
Compliment Responses: A Comparative Study of Native English Speakers and Iranian L2 Speakers
Abstract Responding to compliments is intellectually demanding on the part of the receiver since a balance should be made in order for not rejecting the addressor's compliment and not praising one's self. In this study an attempt has been made to...
2014 / Somayeh Shahsavari, Bita Alimohammadi, Abbas Eslami Rasekh -
Cross-linguistic variation in imperfectivity2014 / Ana Arregui, María Luisa Rivero, Andrés Salanova
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Attitudes towards Native Speaker Norms: Evidence from an Iranian Context
Abstract This study investigated the level of conformity and non-conformity of 102 Iranian EFL learners’ towards native speaker norms (NSNs) in learning English. The quantitative data for the study were collected by a contextualized version of the...
2014 / Hojat Jodai, Javad Pirhadi, Mehdi Taghavi -
Is Complexity Reachable through Planning Conditions in Written Task Performance?
Abstract The present study investigated the effects of two types of planning namely unguided pre-task planning (UPP) and content-focused strategic planning (CSP) on EFL learners’ written task production in terms of syntactic complexity and lexical...
2014 / Reza Khorasani, Seyyed Hossein Kashef, Mohammad Reza Ahmadi -
Second Language Learning and Teaching in Iran
Abstract “We know that teachers come to teacher training with ideas about the teaching/learning process formed from the years they have spent as students themselves 1 .” ...
2013 / Ali Akbar Abedian Kasgari -
Strategies of Learning English as a Foreign Language at Faculty of Technical Sciences
Abstract The main objective of this research was to investigate students’ strategies in language learning and measure them in relation to five research questions. The adopted measurement instrument developed by Oxford (1990) was applied to the...
2013 / Jelisaveta Šafranj -
Culture: Is it an Avoidable or Adorable Concept in EFL Settings?
Abstract Inseparability of culture and language teaching has been the discussion of the field of ELT for many years now. The ‘culture’ perceptions of teachers and learners in EFL classrooms have been rarely addressed. Therefore, this study attempts...
2013 / Ebru A. Damar -
A public backstage: The pleasures and possibilities of roadside shop talk in Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract In contrast to talk in more central parts of the city, and even in domestic space, interactions surrounding roadside grocery shops in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu entail a body of possible overhearers that is both limited and indefinite. Drawing...
2013 / Laura C. Brown -
The Degree of Textuality in Speech of Six-year-old Children
Abstract The aim in this investigation is to define the degree of textuality in the speech of six-year-old Turkish children. For this reason, the introduction and conclusion parts of their speech were investigated. Additionally, the rate and...
2014 / Nihat Bayat, Yeşim Yurdakul -
Competing language ideologies about societal multilingualism among cross-border workers in Luxembourg2014 / Julia de Bres