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Social media and academic success: Impacts of using telegram on foreign language motivation, foreign language anxiety, and attitude toward learning among EFL learners. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Zhao Z, Wang X, Ismail SM, Hasan MK, Hashemifardnia A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Negative Effects of Early English Education on Korean Children [PDF]

, 2018
It may be fairly said that most countries around the world are joining the English-speaking world since English became one of the popular languages. In this situation when the importance of English is emphasized, people’s reaction to and recognition of ...
Hwang, Saebyuk
core   +1 more source

Exploring English as a Foreign Language Students’ Perspectives on Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety

Cihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anxiety is a negative inward feeling that includes a sense of unease, stress, and hesitation. Anxiousness also has a psychological impact on an individual’s mental health. Thus, it can affect an individual’s academic performance.
Kanar Z.H. Chicho
doaj   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the link between language anxiety and learner self-management in open language learning contexts [PDF]

, 2005
The Department of Languages at the Open University/UK was set up in 1991 and presented its first course in French for lower intermediate learners[1] in 1995.
Hauck, Mirjam, Hurd, Stella
core  

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Refusing to Listen: Receptive Audiences and the Political Authority of Speech in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill

Constellations, EarlyView.
Thomas Henry Owings
wiley   +1 more source

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source