Personality, Motivation, Anxiety, Strategies, and Language Proficiency of Japanese Students [PDF]
This study is the lirst io simultaneously examinc the relationships anong live language learning variables (personality, motivation, anxiety, leaning strategies, and language proficiency) as they cooccur in a group of students with a single language ...
Brown, James Dean +2 more
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Are CLIL students more motivated?: an analysis of affective factors and their relation to language attainment [PDF]
This paper addresses the purported belief that Content and Language Integrat- ed Learning positively infuences students’ affective stance. It compares the motivation of CLIL and non-CLIL learners in seven state schools and one charter school in the ...
Navarro Pablo, Macarena
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This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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EFL students’ perception of the use of text-to-speech synthesis in pronunciation learning [PDF]
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners usually find speaking particularly challenging. One way to improve speaking skills in a foreign language is to speak with native speakers of the target language as often as possible. However this is not always
Chang, AHY, Kwan, ACM
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Gestione di ansia e gioia nell’apprendimento della lingua straniera: una questione di genere?
Learning foreign languages evokes contrasting emotions: anxiety (Foreign Language Anxiety, FLA) and enjoyment (Foreign Language Enjoyment, FLE), influencing students’ educational experiences.
Valentina Elmetti Taşkavak
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Classroom Interventions and Foreign Language Anxiety: A Systematic Review With Narrative Approach. [PDF]
Toyama M, Yamazaki Y.
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Communication Strategies Used by 2nd Semesterstudents of English Study Program in Universitas Brawijaya with Different Anxiety Levels in Telling Comic Strips [PDF]
Yuda Crisilla, Syailendra. 2013. Communication Strategies Used by 2 Semester Students of English Study Program in Universitas Brawijaya with Different Anxiety Levels in Telling Comic Strips.
CRISILLA, S. Y. (SYAILENDRA)
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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