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War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
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Social media and psychology of language learning: The role of telegram-based instruction on academic buoyancy, academic emotion regulation, foreign language anxiety, and English achievement. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Zheng X, Ismail SM, Heydarnejad T.
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Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Beyond the classroom - exploring the impact of virtual reality exposure on foreign language anxiety with the mediating role of ESL Chinese learners’ communicative confidence and fluency

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study examines the relationships between virtual reality (VR) exposure, communicative confidence, perceived fluency, and foreign language anxiety among Chinese university students enrolled in English as a Foreign Language courses.
Longmei Gu
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Anxiety and Second/Foreign Language Learning Revisited

Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2008
This article critically reviews the literature that examines the anxiety phenomenon in the field of second/foreign language learning. A major theme that runs through this review is how anxiety comes into play in second/foreign language learning, and ...
Ying Zheng
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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The Role of Classroom Contexts on Learners' Grit and Foreign Language Anxiety: Online vs. Traditional Learning Environment. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Zhao B.
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Refusing to Listen: Receptive Audiences and the Political Authority of Speech in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill

Constellations, EarlyView.
Thomas Henry Owings
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