Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Feminism and Feminine Culture in Modern Women Writers’ Works: With Special Reference to Anne Sexton and Audre Lorde
Abstract This paper focuses on a developmental and comparative study of feminist concerns expressed through the poetry of the two female poets during contemporary feminist movement: Anne Sexton and Audre Lorde. Sexton and Lorde's background and...
2014 / Azadeh Mehrpouyan, Seyedeh Samereh Abbasnezhad Banehmir -
The Impact of Teachers’ Beliefs on Grammar Instruction and Students’ Grammar Competences
Abstract With regards to grammar instruction in mother tongue education, two approaches influence teacher beliefs: the traditional approach supporting explicit instruction and the communicative approach focusing on functional linguistic usage in...
2013 / Valerie Van Vooren, Jordi Casteleyn, André Mottart -
The Effect of Pronunciation Instruction on Students’ Overall Speaking Skills
Abstract Pronunciation is neglected in the majority of language classrooms. English teaching practitioners avoid dealing with pronunciation skills for different reasons. Likewise, the lack of attention allotted to pronunciation is also reflected in...
2012 / Isil Atli, Ayfer Su Bergil -
Metaphoric Confinement of Information2015 / Marek Hetmański
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Teachers’ Use of Preemptive versus Reactive Focus on Form Across Proficiency Levels
Abstract This study involved the observation of communicatively oriented classroom activities and the identification and analysis of incidental language related episodes (LREs) in teacher-learner interaction in an Iranian EFL context. The objective...
2011 / Mahnaz Saiedi, Parvin Safay Mohseny -
Reading Cahit Sitki TARANCI
Abstract Reception aesthetics theory which is a kind of reader-oriented theory is used as a new approach in analysis and explication of literature texts. The latest curriculums, which were prepared according to Constructivism in Turkey, require the...
2012 / Yasemin Uzun Tulgar -
The effect of visual strategies on textual structures in listening process to comprehension level of the listeners
Abstract This study aims to determine the effect of the schematic structure of story texts as a visual strategy on comprehension. 99 primary school students who are designated as experimental group and control group participated in the study....
2009 / Hakan Ülper -
Form and function in Irish child directed speech2011 / Thea Cameron-Faulkner, Tina Hickey
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Derivational Versus Phrasal Adverbials of Manner2015 / Daria Protopopescu
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Writing as Part of Foreign Language Acquisition
Abstract Writing can be characterized as a type of language performance with a certain graphical system that is suitable not only for fixing linguistic knowledge of language learners, but also to express their own ideas, attitudes, or beliefs....
2014 / Eva Smetanová -
Literature Education with Child Detective Stories
Abstract Child and youth literature is a transition literature in terms of both literature education and having the habit of reading. The aims of transition literature are to prepare young's to adult literature and make them good readers. Texts of...
2013 / Hikmet Asutay -
Captains of the Unconscious: Joseph Conrad's Portrayal of a True Modern Self
Abstract One of the techniques Joseph Conrad employs in his art of storytelling is juxtaposition. Through comparing and contrasting his protagonists and central characters in different novels and novellas, Conrad portrays flaws and deficiencies of...
2014 / Farhang Koohestanian, Noritah Omar -
Teaching a Foreign Language from a Cultural Perspective
Abstract Problem Statement: what is culture and is it important for the foreign language teaching? The term “culture” encompasses several aspects of a country: the people, their thoughts, their beliefs, their language, their traditions, etc. Purpose ...
2014 / Aliaa Anis Taha -
Resources for Indonesian Sentiment Analysis2015 / Franky, Ondřej Bojar, Kateřina Veselovská
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Cognitive Approach to Metaphor Translation in Literary Discourse
Abstract In this paper, a cognitive approach to metaphor translation in literary discourse is used, with a reference to a collection of short stories by a famous Russian writer Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974) and their translations in English. The study ...
2014 / Elena A. Burmakova, Nadezda I. Marugina -
Academic urban legends2014 / O. B. Rekdal
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Ritual efficacy in the making2015 / S. Galliot
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Effects of learners’ individual differences on test anxiety among the students majoring in translation in islamic azad university of abadan
Abstract The present survey investigated the correlations between learners’ individual differences (IDs) included motivation, attitudes, state anxiety, age, gender and translation test anxiety (TTA) among the students’ majoring in translation at the ...
2012 / Bahman Gorjian, Khalil Mahmoudi, Farzaneh Mir -
Anthropologies and Americas2012 / Tom Boellstorff
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Using Songs in the Language Classroom
Abstract There are some who believe that literature is a neglected resource in the language classroom, and, of the literary genres, probably the one that is given the least attention is poetry. But songs are only poems set to music. They have...
2013 / Carol Griffiths