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Exploring the Effect of Social Accommodation and Informal Input in Second Language Acquisition
Language, Technology, and Social MediaAccommodation and input both are essential parts of acquiring a second or first language. This study examined the effect of social accommodation and informal input in acquiring a second language in two different contexts namely Bangladeshi and Thai ...
Borendra Lal Tripura +2 more
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Traveling Yellow Peril: Race, Gender, and Empire in Japan's English Teaching Industry [PDF]
, 2017 Contemporary U.S. white migrants working in Japan long-term as English teachers find themselves in an increasingly precarious labor market. When reacting to industry flexibilization, the U.S.
Owens, Christina D.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF TRANSFER OF ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS ACROSS TIME [PDF]
Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2017 This study investigates university students' perceptions towards an English for advanced academic writing purposes (AAW) course taught in a private university in the United Arab Emirates. It probes into the relevance of the skills taught to the students'
Tharwat EL-Sakran +2 more
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabraʼs In Search of Walid Masoud. A Polyphony of (Un)Orchestrated Opus [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019 This paper makes use of Mikhail Bakhtinʼs notion of polyphony to approach In Search of Walid Masoud, a novel written in Arabic by the Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra in 1978 and translated into English by Roger Allen and Adnan Haydar in 2000.
Ibrahim A. El-Hussari
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Styling Authenticity in Country Music
LanguagesCountry music has become commercially successful both in the US and worldwide. It is perceived as a genre that values authenticity, which may be reflected in the choice of linguistic features, with (White) Southern American English (SAE) serving as the ...
Valentin Werner, Anna Ledermann
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Utopian semiospheres: Isolation and dialogue across borders
Sign Systems StudiesThe paper applies Juri Lotman’s theory of the semiosphere to utopian studies with the aim of identifying the principal components and mode of functioning of classic utopian discourse.
Artur Blaim, Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim
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Aptitude and experience as predictors of grammatical proficiency in adult Greek-English bilinguals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 It has been shown that individuals exhibit great variability in second language (L2) ultimate attainment. Some speakers reach native-like proficiency, others only achieve a rudimentary command and many lie in the middle.
Leonarda Prela +4 more
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The English pronunciation teaching in Europe survey: selected results [PDF]
, 2012 The results of EPTiES reveal interesting phenomena across Europe, despite shortcomings in terms of construction and distribution. For example, most respondents are non-native speakers of English and the majority of them rate their own mastery of English ...
Cunnigham, Una +10 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blinatumomab has been shown to be highly effective for patients with pediatric B‐ALL and has recently become standard of care therapy. Due to its past use in the clinical trial setting, there is limited information available about real‐world administration.
Katelyn Oranges +12 more
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Sociolinguistic monitoring and L2 speakers of English
LinguisticsThis study contributes to a growing body of research on the social meanings of linguistic variation with particular interest in the cognitive processes governing their emergence.
Pflaeging Jana +2 more
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