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Abstract Every child across the UK is expected to study English until the age of 16. The subject is understood to be a core and foundational element of pupils' curriculum entitlement across their school lives, and success in English is a key determinant for influencing individuals' future trajectories, and for impacting wider economic and social ...
Rebecca Morris, Wendy Ramku
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English is rich of idioms. Learning idioms is considered an integral part of vocabulary learning. Idioms of animals are very popular in everyday English and ESL and EFL learners should encounter them .The problem of this study is due to the fact that ...
Mahmood Atiya Farhan
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The correlation of the Komi-Permian and Komi-Zyryan elements in the vocabulary of the Upper-Kama idiom [PDF]
Elena Nikolaevna Fedoseeva
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Starving for Data: Eating Disorders Prevalence and Research Gaps in Southern Africa
ABSTRACT Objective Studies reporting prevalence estimates of eating disorders in Southern Africa are scarce. To fill this gap, the present Research Forum reviews existing literature on the prevalence of eating disorders, including as assessed by clinical interviews, screeners, and self‐reported behaviors, among individuals in Southern Africa.
Bernou Melisse +2 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Outpatient treatment for bulimia nervosa (BN) often fails to reduce core symptoms like binge eating and purging, while inpatient care is costly and separates patients from their everyday environment. Day‐patient treatment offers a middle ground by providing intensive daytime therapy with the opportunity to apply skills at home.
Anna L. Dieffenbacher +2 more
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Teaching English idioms of happiness and sadness through conceptual metaphors in Vietnamese context
Idioms have long been regarded as a big challenge for EFL learners. With recent developments in cognitive linguistics, the method of teaching idioms has shifted from rote learning to raising the learner’s awareness of conceptual metaphors (CM).
Pham Thai Bao Ngoc
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The Impact of Context on the learning and Retention of Idioms [PDF]
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of context on learning idioms among 60 Iranian female advanced English learners. To this end, the researcher assigned the participants to two experimental groups and one control group: Group ...
Simin Valizadeh, Saeideh Ahangari
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Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Semantics of Idioms Containing Names of Body Parts in English, Slovak, and Hungarian (A Comparative Study) [PDF]
The main objective of the paper is to study idioms containing names of body parts in the English, Slovak, and Hungarian languages The traits of the selected idioms are investigated in terms of semantics The research sample, which includes fifty idioms
Marta Lacková, Brigita Bernáthová
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