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Spoken morphological errors made by Iranian EFL learners [PDF]

open access: yesTeaching English Language, 2013
Speaking English fluently and accurately is the most important, favorite, and complicated skill for EFL learners. The present study was an attempt to investigate the morphological speaking errors of Iranian EFL learners across proficiency levels and ...
Mohammad Javad Rezai, Masood Heshmatian
doaj   +1 more source

Diachronic and/or synchronic variation? The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in L2 French. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A majority of the early research in Second Language Acquisition focused on diachronic variation in the learners’ interlanguage (IL), that is, differences in the IL linked to a supposed increase in knowledge between two points in time (cf.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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English Centering Diphthong Production By Polish Learners of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The paper shows how British English centering diphthongs are adapted to the vowel space of Polish learners of English. The goal is to focus on complex vowels and the interaction of qualitative and quantitative features. Acoustic analysis revealed various
Balas, Anna
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THE POTENTIAL OF ARCHIVES IN INFORMAL PLACEMAKING OF FORMER MENTAL ASYLUMS: Insights from Pionta Commoning Archival Practices Toward a Living Urban Archive

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 133-151, January 2026.
Abstract This article explores various forms of archives—such as institutions, collections, records and cities—as urban commons. It highlights the importance of community and institutional collaboration in curating archives to promote learning, discovery and well‐being through grassroots initiatives, transforming archives and their urban settings into ...
Gozde Yildiz, Francesca Bianchi
wiley   +1 more source

A perspectiva comparativa do pretérito perfeito composto, pretérito perfecto compuesto e present perfect

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2013
The aim of this paper is to highlight a problematic use of the Portuguese tense Pretérito Perfeito Composto in comparison to the use of English Present Perfect and Spanish Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto.
Sylwia Mikołajczak
doaj   +1 more source

The development of apologies in the Japanese L2 of adult English native speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The present paper focuses on the use of seven apologies strategies in the Japanese of 20 adult, high-intermediate English learners/users of Japanese. Nine of these learners had spent a minimum of two years in Japan.
Beckwith, S., Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Enhanced Empathy for English Language Learners: How ESOL Teachers' Past Language Learning Informs Their Teacher Knowledge and Practices

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2061-2092, December 2025.
Abstract While there has been a growing interest in teachers' empathy within TESOL, the various dimensions of empathy remain less explored compared to other fields such as anthropology, medicine, and psychology. Guided by the theoretical framing of “teacher knowledge” (TK), this paper reports on one key theme from a doctoral study concerning how ESOL ...
Rohan K. Willis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homonymy among the Nominates Concerning Time and Space: Polish­ - Russian Contrastive Study

open access: yesRespectus Philologicus, 2016
The article is devoted to the problem of interlanguage homonymy. Resulting from the analysis of Polish and Russian nominates (words and phrasemes) in time and space, there have been selected four groups of interlanguage homonyms: proper homonyms (as well
Martyna Król
doaj   +1 more source

The role of error analysis in ELT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In Second Language Acquisition learners usually make errors that are part of the normal learning process. Errors Analysis is, generally, a method through which we can identify and classify these errors which, in turn, reflect a given stage in the learner’
Nhapulo, Marcos
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Trilingual conversations: a window into multicompetence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A recurrent theme in the literature on trilingual language use is the question of whether there is a specific “trilingual competence.” In this paper we consider this question in the light of codeswitching patterns in two dyadic trilingual conversations ...
Baetens Beardsmore, H.   +12 more
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