In discourse comprehension, we need to draw inferences to make sense of discourse. Previous neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural correlates of causal inferences in discourse understanding. However, these findings have been divergent, and how
Wangshu Feng +5 more
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Innovation in Teaching Multicultural Future Specialists in Kuzbass Coal Mining Region: a Flipped Classroom Approach [PDF]
In the era of globalization export of education has greatly increased all over the world and the Russian Federation is not an exception. Multicultural classes filled with students of different nationalities, cultural backgrounds and languages put a new ...
Kolomiets Svetlana +2 more
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The study investigates whether learners’ demographics (e.g., age, education, and intelligence-IQ), language learning experience, and cognitive control predict Chinese (L2) reading comprehension in young adults.
Zhilong Xie +6 more
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The corporate profile translations of multinational corporations (MNCs) in emerging economies such as China possess rich information for narrative analysis.
Li Wang +3 more
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Sociodemographic, psychological and politicocultural correlates in Flemish students' attitudes towards French and English [PDF]
An analysis of 100 Flemish high-school students' attitudes towards French and English (both foreign languages) revealed complex links etween personality factors, gender, politicocultural identity, communicative behaviour and foreign language attitudes ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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“Appropriateness” in foreign language acquisition and use: some theoretical, methodological and ethical considerations [PDF]
In this contribution, I focus on the concept of “appropriateness” in the usage, the learning and the teaching of foreign languages. Using a participant-based emic perspective, I investigate multilinguals’ perceptions of appropriateness in their foreign ...
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ICT use by pre-service foreign languages teachers according to gender, age and motivation
In the area of foreign languages, it is necessary to develop the digital competence of future teachers in order to improve the teaching-learning process that they will carry out with their students.
F. D. Guillén-Gámez +3 more
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Multimedia technologies and online task-based foreign language teaching-learning [PDF]
Teaching and learning a foreign language at a distance implies many challenges, namely regarding oral skills. At Universidade Aberta (the Portuguese Open University), and taking into account its virtual pedagogical model (Pereira, 2007) and the Common ...
Nobre, Ana
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Application of axiologically-oriented classes’ system when teaching agricultural students of different cultures by means of social disciplines [PDF]
The value orientations of students are of great scientific interest from the point of view of the formation of the educational process in universities and are an important subject of sociological and pedagogical research.
Medvedeva Svetlana +4 more
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Discursive use of stability in New York Times’ coverage of China: a sentiment analysis approach
The importance of stability has been consistently emphasized in China and the discursive use of stability is found to have legitimizing effects in Chinese newspapers, but how such political keywords are employed by the newspaper of a country that is ...
Guofeng Wang, Yilin Liu, Shengmeng Tu
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