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Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representations of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema, by Russel J.A. Kilbourn

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2011
Based on the hypothesis that cinema (alongside photography) represents memory in its fullest and most meaningful sense, owing to its place as a dominant mode of narrative in the twentieth century, Russel J.A.
Colm Ryan
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring students’ performance using lingua franca in science education: a study of grade ten students in Capiz, Philippines [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2023
Background Currently global competitiveness is the main thrust of the country’s education department, raising the quality of education in the Philippines has become a priority for government officials, who see it as one way to address other teaching and ...
Dirk Diestro
doaj   +1 more source

Research methods and intelligibility studies

open access: yes, 2010
This paper first briefly reviews the concept of intelligibility as it has been employed in both English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE) research.
SEWELL, Andrew John
core   +2 more sources

Some Introductory Notes on the Development and Characteristics of Sabah Malay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is a preliminary description of the Malay variety used as a lingua franca in the Malaysian state of Sabah at the northernmost top of Borneo. The paper discusses a number of common linguistic features that distinguish Sabah Malay from other Malay ...
Jing Cheng (41407)   +1 more
core   +4 more sources

Probiotic consumption reduces alveolar bone loss and kidney damage in pregnant rats with experimental periodontitis

open access: yesJournal of Periodontology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis HN019 (B. lactis HN019) is a probiotic bacterial strain with immunomodulatory properties. Its benefits have been observed in healthy and systemically compromised animals with periodontitis (PD). Our objective was to investigate the local and systemic effects of the systemic administration of B.
Átila V. V. Nobre   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formando professores de inglês para o contexto do inglês como língua franca - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i2.14958

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2012
Embora as pesquisas sobre o inglês como língua franca ainda sejam incipientes no Brasil, pode-se afirmar que tem havido um crescente interesse por esta perspectiva nos últimos anos.
Michele Salles El Kadri, Telma Gimenez
doaj   +1 more source

Legacy effects of European colonialism on hotspots of biocultural diversity threat

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Patterns of biological diversity have been shaped by cultural practices in the past, while in turn, cultures and languages have evolved in close interaction with local species and ecosystems. However, in the Anthropocene, human activities are putting increasingly diverse pressures on ecosystems and cultures, resulting in accelerating threat ...
Bernd Lenzner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguae Francae [PDF]

open access: yesQueue, 2004
Many linguists are still busy trying to reconstruct the single ur-language presumed to have evolved over untold millennia into the thousands of human tongues - alive and dead, spoken and written - that have since been catalogued and analyzed. The amazing variety and complexity of known languages and dialects seems, at first parse, to gainsay such a ...
openaire   +1 more source

MAINTAINING VERNACULARS TO PROMOTE PEACE AND TOLERANCEIN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITY IN INDONESIA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Indonesia is a large nation in terms of ethnics, cultures, and vernaculars. Indonesian constitution guarantees that the cultures, vernaculars will be taken care of by the government.
,, Rustipai , Katharina
core  

Combining different types of data in studying attitudes to English as a Lingua Franca [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper deals with the attitudes of Croatian speakers to ELF, in particular to its pronunciation. Four methods were combined to reach conclusions about the status of ELF in Croatia: diary study, teacher interviews, a preliminary focus group interview ...
Josipović-Smojver, Višnja   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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