Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Detection of Groups in Non-Structured Data
Abstract This paper describes a method to automatically discover features which distinguish the language use of cultural subgroups operating within the same broader language/culture. Sociolinguists have long known that special features such as...
2012 / Rosemary D. Paradis, Daniel Davenport, David Menaker, Sarah M. Taylor -
Maintenance of Mother Tongue: Patterns of Language Choice at the Malaysian-Thai Border
Abstract Language use or choice at the border often presents a multitude of patterns. The language chosen is often determined by the participants in the communicative act. At the Malaysia-Thai border, where most of the population are Malay but of...
2014 / Norsimah Mat Awal, Mohammad Fadzeli Jaafar, Mohammed Azlan Mis, Hayati Lateh -
Third Person Anaphoric Reference by Turkish Speakers of French
Abstract Rather than being a random sequence of unrelated sentences and clauses, a text must have solid sense relations between its units to be logically and semantically consistent for the reader-hearer. This logical and semantic consistency...
2014 / Mustafa Mavasoglu -
Fractal metaphor LIFE IS A STORY in biographical narrative2015 / Yakiv Bystrov
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The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation2014 / Martin Hinton
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Reading Dickens's characters: Employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts2014 / M. Mahlberg, K. Conklin, M.-J. Bisson
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Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs / / and /eI/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole: A Comparative Study2015 / A. Mousa
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Discourses shape foreign language learning and teaching: The story of a language institution
Abstract According to Gee (1998) the practices of social groups are never just reading and writing practices that take place in an institution; they also involve ways of talking, interacting, valuing and believing. Certain discourse tools offer...
2010 / Alev Ozbilgin -
Journaling and the Creative Writing Workshop in Counseling and Recovery of Adult Participants
Abstract Background I discuss a method of facilitation that I have used in my Creative Writing courses at the University of Lethbridge for many years. I tend to focus primarily on potentials and possibilities in third-year courses...
2011 / R. Alexander Kizuk -
Peer Correction: The Key to Improve the Iranian English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Productive Writing Skill
Abstract The students’ errors are so various and frequent that obsesses teachers’ minds a lot. Thus, different methods to correct errors have been proposed. The purpose of this study is to find the effect of peer correction on students’ writing...
2011 / Bahram Behin, Somayye Hamidi -
2006 - Ralf Grüttemeier en Maria-Theresia Leuker (red.): Niederländische Literaturgeschichte. Stuttgart, J.B. Metzler2014 / Jos Joosten
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Nadja Nesselhauf, Collocations in a Learner Corpus2008 / Joachim Wagner
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Do you know where I can find the new center which is called “Cognitive styles and language learning strategies link”?
Abstract This article reports on research into the language learning strategies used by a group of Iranian learners. The aims of this study were to explore levels of the strategy use among the Field dependent (FD) and Field independent (FI)...
2010 / Zahra Naimie, Rana Ahmed Abuzaid, Saedah Siraj, Reihaneh Shagholi, Huda Al Hejaili -
Prospective teachers’ proficiency in punctuation rules and opinions related to punctuation problems
Abstract In this study the students in education faculties that they have problems with their punctuation perspective of these issues to determine the underlying causes, and from there to the solution of problems with recommendations for action is...
2010 / Ahmet Benzer -
Hawthorne’s reception of Byron2011 / Frederick Burwick
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University Summer School Students’ Foreign Language Anxiety Levels
Abstract The relationship between anxiety and language learning has been scrutinized since the 1960s. Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope (1986) proposed a situation-specific foreign language anxiety scale to search students’ uncomfortable experiences and...
2012 / Demet Yayli -
Prospective English Language Teachers’ Views on Literature- Oriented Courses at Akdeniz University's ELT Department
Abstract Using literary texts in English as a foreign language (hereafter EFL) context is beneficial for learners since they provide authentic properties of the target language and culture. The Ministry of National Education supports the use of...
2013 / Mehmet Galip Zorba -
The Importance of Cross-Cultural Awareness in Writing Sales Promotion Letters
Abstract It has been confirmed that different cultures structure discourse in different ways. Therefore, in order to communicate effectively in business world, business people not only need to learn how to write business letters, but also they need...
2013 / Fatemeh Heidari Ghezeljeh, Mohamad Raouf Moini -
Boekbespreking: Wielenga, Friso, <I>Geschiedenis van Nederland. Van de opstand tot heden</I>. Amsterdam, Boom, 2012. ISBN 978 9461 054 739. € 24,90. - Het ontstaan van de Nederlander: de homo pragmaticus van de Lage Landen2014 / Rinaldo Neels
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Governing women's morality: a study of Islamic veiling in Canada2006 / Y. Atasoy