Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Linguistic Intervention Programme
Abstract This article discusses the issue of achievement strategies in foreign language learning process and its facilitation through the means of linguistic intervention programme. The research is carried out to examine linguistic intervention...
2013 / Eva Stranovská, Daša Munková, Silvia Hvozdíková -
What can Metaphor Tell us about the Language of Translation?
Abstract This paper illustrates an exploratory study aimed at devising a methodology for the analysis of the language of translations through a comparison of metaphor use in original and translated texts. It uses a pilot monolingual comparable...
2013 / Sara Piccioni -
From Learner Corpora to Curriculum Design: An Empirical Approach to Staging the Teaching of Grammatical Concepts
Abstract A learner corpus with texts allocated into proficiency levels is a useful resource when designing a curriculum for EFL grammar education, as it can provide insights into which grammatical features are most critical to the learner at each...
2013 / Mick O’Donnell -
Not to Teach but Give Insights: Corpus-based Approach in Portuguese-English and Portuguese-Russian Cross-linguistic Error Correction
Abstract Foreign language learners make mechanical errors caused by cross-linguistic influence. It comes from trying to extract information from a native language (L1) and apply it in a second or foreign language (L2/FL). There are not many didactic ...
2013 / Nataliya Godinho Soares Vieira -
The causes of the schwa phoneme as a fossilized pronunciation problem for Turks
Abstract The articulation of the schwa phoneme, symbolized by the [ə] in the IPA system, of the English language, is a serious pronunciation problem for Turkish English teachers, teacher trainees and the students of other fields of study. Because it ...
2010 / Mehmet Demirezen -
The effect of C-R activities on personal pronoun acquisition
Abstract This study employed a quasi-experimental single-group pretest- posttest design and examined the effect of consciousness-raising (C-R) activities on English personal pronoun usage to show accurate pronoun-antecedent agreement and the...
2010 / Cheah Su Ming, Nooreiny Maarof -
Fish Welfare in Aquaculture: Explicating the Chain of Interactions Between Science and Ethics2012 / Bernice Bovenkerk, Franck L. B. Meijboom
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Focus on Form in an EFL Context: Learners’ Uptake
Abstract Focus on Form (FoF) as a new approach for teaching a second or foreign language has been an ongoing discussion issue among researchers and methodologists. Uptake that is learners’ response to formal instruction has been used as a gauge to...
2013 / Sarimah Shamsudin, Hamid Reza Karim -
What Values in Design? The Challenge of Incorporating Moral Values into Design2010 / Noëmi Manders-Huits
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Language policy, in-migration and discursive debates in Wales2016 / Catrin Wyn Edwards
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Implication for Translation Teaching Pedagogy: A Case of Benghazi University
Abstract Students’ errors can be pedagogically useful only if they are constantly related to other variables that constitute the teaching context such as the course design and the professionalism of the teacher. The main aim of this paper is to...
2013 / Ramadan Ahmed Elmgrab -
The transgressive that: Making the world uncanny2015 / R. Hayward, R. Wooffitt, C. Woods
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A Needs Analysis Approach to the Evaluation of Iranian Third-Grade High School English Textbook2014 / N. Rashidi, R. Kehtarfard
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Teaching Language and Literature: A Question of Balance?
Abstract Regarding the teaching of Catalan, four textbooks were created in the 1970s and 80s, which included a complete work of literature, with numerous grammar and lexical commentaries, and exercises about the literary text. The author who is the...
2015 / Anna Devís Arbona, Josep-Vicent García Raffi -
Writer's Presence in English Native and Non-Native Speaker Research Articles
Abstract The purpose of the present study is to examine the degree of writer presence in Chemistry research articles written by native and non-native English speaking writers. Thirty research articles (fifteen articles belonging to native and...
2014 / Biook Behnam, Fathemeh Mirzapour, Mohammad Amin Mozaheb -
Dilemmas of Practice: Challenges to Program Quality Encountered by Youth Program Leaders2010 / Reed W. Larson, Kathrin C. Walker
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A New Type of Phonetic Alphabet and its Applications in Language Teaching: From Practical Phonetics to Morphology
Abstract This paper introduces a new articulatory alphabet, Artalph, invented by the author using innovative, computer- generated phonetic pictograms to aid in pronunciation and in the explication of language grammar rules and conventions. The essay ...
2014 / Snejina Sonina -
Mother Tongue Traces of Turkish University Students on Composition Papers Written in English
Abstract The aim of this study was to determine the interference errors on the composition papers of Turkish university students. While Turkish university students learning English are writing compositions, they sometimes confront difficulties...
2012 / Gencer Elkilic -
A Relevance-theoretic Perspective on Metonymy
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse metonymies from a relevance-theoretic perspective. Metonymy has been considered as an association process between contiguous items within the same cognitive domain or as involving a meaning transfer...
2015 / Bárbara Eizaga Rebollar -
Methods of Overcoming the Language Interference in the Speech of Russian-speaking Immigrants in the Czech Republic
Abstract The purpose of this research was to analyze the Russian-Czech interference in the speech of bilingual students, as well as to develop methods for overcoming this interference and approbation of these methods in practice. Corrective...
2013 / Lilia Nazarenko