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, 2020 In the first half of the 19th century, the Christian churches of Britain and America successively sent missionaries to the southeast Asia. American Baptist missionaries William Dean and Josiah Goddard, who preached in Bangkok, published First Lessons in ...
Hai Wang, Daiming Huang
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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Vesna // Veshna: experience in the reconstruction of the root nest on the material of the Russian literary language and Russian folk dialects [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2019 The article presents a corpus of literary and dialect vocabulary with variant roots of vesn(a) // veshn(a) (spring), formed on the basis of data from various dictionaries: «Derivational Dictionary of Russian Language» A.N.
Pyataeva Natalia V.
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader +2 more
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Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2022 The aim of this co-authored article is to provide an overview of contemporary Lithuanian dialect dictionaries in terms of their macro- and microstructure as compared to the concepts of description applied in selected recently published Polish regional ...
Vilija Sakalauskienė +1 more
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, 2020 Despite more than 200 years of research, the internal structure of the Turkic language family remains subject to debate. Classifications of Turkic so far are based on both classical historical–comparative linguistic and distance-based quantitative ...
Robbeets, M., Savelyev, A.
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A Country That Never Sleeps? A Web Scrapping Analysis of the 24‐h Economy Policy in Ghana
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of revitalizing Ghana's economic landscape through sustainable job creation underpinned by 24‐h operations across all key sectors, the National Democratic Congress proposed the ‘24‐h economy’ policy proposal. This study employs the web‐scraping technique through text mining and python codes to analyse 1820 comments from Facebook, X ...
Pius Gamette +3 more
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Dictionary of American Regional English: Some Transposals [PDF]
, 2010 When the American Dialect Society (ADS) was founded in 1889, one of the major goals of its charger members was to do for the United States what Joseph Wright was doing for England in compiling his English Dialect Dictionary.
Francis, Darryl
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Regional lexicography: zoological vocabulary in ideographic dictionary
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020 In the article the working results on one section of the thematic dictionary of Samara dialects are summarized. The study is novel in the application of the ideographic description technique to the large lexical material, which was extracted from the ...
T. E. Bazhenova
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Grandma Clancy\u27s Cootherman Box [PDF]
, 1987 As a child I was often fascinated by a small wooden box in which my grandmother kept her costume jewelry. She referred to it as her Cootherman box. It was not until recently that I decided to investigate the possible origin and meaning behind the word ...
Clancy, Timothy G.
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