Языкознание и литературоведение список научных статей
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The Arabic aspectual marker qad from the perspective of the Two-Component Theory of aspect
The study examined the Arabic aspectual particle qad within the framework of Smith’s Two-Component Theory of Aspect, which views aspectual meaning as a combination of covert situation types and overt viewpoint markers. The analysis, which was conducted on Modern Standard Arabic, revealed that the...
2019 / Salamah Dania AdelWOSScopusВАК -
Examining Undergraduate students’ and in-service graduates’ perceptions of their professionally oriented foreign language needs
Increasing workplace demands on foreign languages skills in professional settings call for a number of considerable changes in the university learning context regarding foreign language teaching. The present study aimed to assess the language needs within and across employed university graduates,...
2019 / Marina Olga, Yakusheva Irina, Demchenkova OksanaWOSScopusВАК -
Fairness and ethics in multiple choice (MC) scoring: an empirical study
Various simple and more complicated types of assessment and thereon scoring procedures and statistical tests have been suggested to measure the main dependent variable (language in our case). In entry tests in particular, method of scoring and test impact are two possible areas where the ethical...
2019 / Ypsilandis George S., Mouti AnnaWOSScopusВАК -
Meaningful learning and its implications for language education in Vietnam
This paper attempts to make an argument for meaningful learning as an essential factor in the teaching of English as a foreign language. Meaningful learning rests its theories against cognitive processing. While contemporary literature shows knowledge of language in general is essential for second...
2019 / Hung Bui PhuWOSScopusВАК -
English as a lingua franca in a multilingual India
In this opinion article, we highlight that the cultural policy of language in India has resulted in an impasse in regard to determining and deciding upon a national language policy. We then summarize how English use across India has been elevated to the status of a lingua franca (amidst the...
2019 / Iyer Ishwarya N., Ramachandran SridharWOSScopusВАК -
Pictorial framing in moral Politics: a Corpus-Based experimental Study. Abdel-raheem A. , new York, ny & london, UK: Routledge, 2019. 209 pp. , including 50 b/w figures and an index. Isbn 978-1-1-138-35176-9 (hbk), 978-0-429-43508-9 (ebk)
Lakoff and Johnson's dictum that ‘the essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another' (1980, p. 5, emphasis in original) graciously captures a few of this trope's most important characteristics. The convenient vagueness of the word ‘thing' allows for a...
2019 / Forceville CharlesWOSScopusВАК -
Learner-centered approaches: their effect on the oral fluency of students
The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of learner-centered approaches on the oral fluency of the second-year students in English 202-Communicative English. The study employed a quasi-experimental method, particularly the pre-test and post-test experimental group design. Two groups of...
2018 / Maasin-Ceballos Melody Joyce, Ceballos Roel FamatWOSScopusВАК -
“that German stuff”: negotiating linguistic legitimacy in a foreign language classroom
This qualitative case study of one German suburban high school classroom in the Midwestern United States examines how learners of German negotiate their linguistic legitimacy, which is defined as discursively constructed acceptance or validation for their language use. Specifically, it investigates ...
2018 / Ennser-Kananen JohanaWOSScopusВАК -
Incidence and nature of Negotiations for meaning during uncontrolled speaking practice in English as a foreign language classrooms
The past three decades have seen an increasing interest in negotiation for meaning as interactional processes which advance language acquisition. Motivated by this claim, a number of studies have set out to determine the tasks that best promote negotiations for meaning (NfMs). However, this...
2018 / Garcia-Ponce Edgar Emmanuell, Mora-Pablo IrasemaWOSScopusВАК -
The effects of mnemonic vocabulary instruction on content vocabulary learning of students
The present article is an investigation about the effects of mnemonic vocabulary teaching to improve content vocabulary learning in EFL classrooms. A major issue with the most of the past studies was that they paid little or no attention to the effects of using mnemonic strategies to improve...
2018 / Fasih Parima, Izadpanahsih Siros, Shahnavaz AliWOSScopusВАК -
The validation process in the ielts reading component: reading requirements for preparing international students
Although IELTS is coordinated under a framework for test development and validation, there is some controversy about exam results’ correlation with students’ post-admission intellectual, academic and professional performance. The theoretical part of the research aims to investigate the extent to...
2018 / Kovalenko MarinaWOSScopusВАК -
There is no alternative! student perceptions of learning in a second language in Lebanon
Since 1997, children in Lebanese state schools are taught most of the curriculum in English or French. The children’s first language, Arabic, may be used even less in private schools, which educate 70% of children. In many countries, mother tongue education is seen as a right but in Lebanon it is...
2018 / Orr Mike, Annous SamerWOSScopusВАК -
Influence of L1 properties and proficiency on the acquisition of gender agreement
This research investigates the influence of L1 properties and proficiency level on the acquisition of the Spanish gender agreement system. French and English-speaking learners of Spanish participated in the study. Subjects were divided into four different groups considering their L1 (French and...
2018 / Paquet Pierre-LucWOSScopusВАК -
EFL reading metacomprehension from the developmental perspective: a longitudinal case study
As the first half of the literacy equation (reading + writing = literacy), reading is primarily considered a dynamic meaning-focused interaction in which the reader is required to build comprehension of a text in a non-linear way. In other words, the reader is constantly checking the degree to...
2018 / Šamo Renata, Mikulec AlenkaWOSScopusВАК -
Gender, Power and political speech. Women and language in the 2015 UK General Election. Deborah cameron and Sylvia Shaw. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Isbn: 978-1-137-58752-72018 / Gabrielova ElenaWOSScopusВАК
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The relationships between the accuracy of self-evaluation, kanji proficiency and the learning environment for Adolescent Japanese heritage language learners
This paper focuses on Japanese heritage language (JHL) learners in an Australian context. The paper reports on a research project in a hoshuu-koo institution, a Japanese supplementary school, and explores the experiences of a group of Year 7 students. This study was initiated by identifying to what ...
2018 / Aiko MizueWOSScopusВАК -
“West” or “Vest”? Pronunciation of English consonants [w] and [v] in the utterances of Slovak EFL speakers
The paper investigates the pronunciation of the labiodental fricative [v] and the labial-velar approximant [w] in the word-initial position in English utterances by Slovak speakers. The objective of the study is to explore which of the two consonants appear to be more problematic for Slovak...
2018 / Metruk RastislavWOSScopusВАК -
Bulgarian university students’ learning style preferences in ESL classrooms
Students’ attitudes towards learning and the perception and beliefs behind them may have a profound influence on learning behaviour and learning outcomes. Teachers’ awareness of such needs and preferences will result in more realistic and useful teaching strategies which, in turn, will have a...
2018 / Komlosi-Ferdinand FloraWOSScopusВАК -
Impact of mobile assisted language learning on learner autonomy in efl reading context
Traditional classrooms confine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading to the textbook and the classroom setting, something that demotivates active reading. With the advent of mobile technology, however, such boundaries can be broken to include external reading materials where students could...
2018 / Hazaea Abduljalil Nasr, Alzubi Ali AbbasWOSScopusВАК -
A study on the attributes of effective English lecturers as perceived by EFL learners: the case of Indonesia
This study aims to uncover the attributes of effective English lecturers and any significant differences between male and female EFL learners in determining the attributes of effective EFL lecturers. The study utilized a descriptive study design by asking 52 EFL learners to be respondents by...
2018 / Mudra HeriWOSScopusВАК