Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Playing Back the Nation: Waria, Indonesian Transvestites2004 / Tom Boellstorff
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The Phenomenon of Linguistic Globalization: English as the Global Lingua Franca (EGLF)
Abstract The conference paper considers changes taking place in the world system of languages as a result of the English language transformation into the Global Language. The most important feature of ELF is emphasis on its function, i.e. its use as ...
2014 / Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova -
Conditionals and their Functions in Women's Scientific Writing
Abstract Despite socio-cultural gender-based prejudice, women have played a role in the advancement of scientific knowledge for as long as science exists. However, their effort, but for a few exceptions, has been historically hidden from public...
2013 / Luis Miguel Puente Castelo, Leida Maria Monaco -
Contextual Factors in Guessing Word Meaning from Context in a Foreign Language
Abstract Guessing word meaning from context is one of the most favored vocabulary learning strategies among second language learners (Paribakht & Wesche, 1999). While inferring the meaning of an unfamiliar word, language learners use different...
2014 / Berrin Manga Çetinavcı -
An Approach to Verbal Humor in Interaction
Abstract I propose a method to study interactional ironic humorous utterances in Spanish. In GRIALE research group consider this method can be applied to humorous ironic utterances in different textual genres, from the violation of conversational...
2013 / M. Belén Alvarado Ortega -
RETRACTED: The effect of delexicalization of common verbs on the collocational competence of Iranian EFL students
Available online This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. ...
2011 / Maryam Eftekhari, Ali Rahimi -
Task-based language teaching: What every EFL teacher should do
Abstract This paper aims at presenting background of task-based language teaching, giving a definition of a task, describing three main approaches to task-based language teaching, specifying basic characteristics of task-based language teaching,...
2011 / Murat Hismanoglu, Sibel Hismanoglu -
The Influence of Written Corrective Feedback on Two Iranian Learners’ Grammatical Accuracy
Abstract The purpose of this case study is to investigate the effect of explicit and implicit corrective feedback on learners’ grammatical accuracy. Two pre-intermediate male participants were chosen in a particular English language class. One of...
2014 / Mohammad Jokar, Ali Soyoof -
Transfer of Requestive Speech act from L1 to L2 in Iranian EFL Learners
Abstract The present paper is an investigation of cross-cultural differences in requestive speech act between Persian and English. The study is an attempt to find whether Iranian EFL learners would transfer their L1 requests into the L2, and if...
2013 / Omid Tabatabaei, Zeinab Samiee -
Some methodological approaches to the analysis of personal and professional teachers' distortions2015 / Natalia Moskvina
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Is There a Need for a More Expansive Use of Ethics and Values in Reflecting on the Use of Animals in Scientific Research?2014 / Mark Fisher
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Techniques Developing Intercultural Communicative Competences in English Language Lessons
Abstract Mutual understanding and intercultural competences are very important in the today's global world, because they allow us to overcome prejudice, discrimination and misunderstandings between people of different cultural backgrounds....
2015 / Eva Reid -
Family Register in British English: The First Approach to its Systematic Study
Abstract The present study looks into an unexplored area of research as it is the family register. An alternative to recording family conversations is the use of popular TV series, as their success lies in the audience's identification with their...
2015 / Rosa Giménez-Moreno, Hanna Skorczynska -
Metaphor-based Design for Learning via ATTA and SCAN Model
Abstract The purpose of this research is to explore the impacts of the ATTA, Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adult and SCAN, Six Creative Analogical and Assimilated Navigation Model on curriculum design of linguistic development. By means of...
2014 / Jiin-Chyuan Lai, Tsuilien Shen -
English as a Second Language: Variations and Pedagogical Implications
Abstract In this paper, English texts written by Spanish learners with B2 level of proficiency, following the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), were contrasted with texts written by native English speakers in order to...
2014 / María Luisa Carrió-Pastor, Francisco Alonso-Almeida -
Transformation of SDF syntax definitions in the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment
Abstract We describe FST—a Framework for SDF Transformation. FST supports the adaptation (in a broad sense) of grammars based on the syntax definition formalism SDF. We further describe the prototype implementation of FST in the ASF+SDF...
2004 / Ralf Lämmel, Guido Wachsmuth -
‘New speakers’ of Irish in the United States: practices and motivations2015 / John Walsh, Laoise Ní Dhúda
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Intersectionality in language trajectories: African women in Spain2015 / Tulay Caglitutuncigil Martínez
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The impact of language co-activation on L1 and L2 speech fluency
Abstract Fluent speech depends on the availability of well-established linguistic knowledge and routines for speech planning and articulation. A lack of speech fluency in late second-language (L2) learners may point to a deficiency of these...
2015 / Christopher Bergmann, Simone A. Sprenger, Monika S. Schmid -
The Role of English in Shaping the Linguistic Landscape of Paris, Berlin and Kazan
Abstract The paper examines the linguistic cultural landscape of three European cities: Paris (France), Berlin (Germany) and Kazan (the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation). The subject of the analysis is the impact of the English language as...
2015 / Svetlana S. Takhtarova, Tatiana E. Kalegina, Farida I. Yarullina