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English Language Competence of Secretary Students Through Report Writing: Corpus Based Study [PDF]

, 2018
This research is entitled “English Language Competence of Secretary Students through Report Writing:Corpus Based Study”. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the language competence of the Secretary Students in one of popular Academy Secretary
Citraresmana, E. (Elvi)
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L1 transfer in the acquisition of manner and path in Spanish by native speakers of English [PDF]

, 2012
In this article the authors argue that L1 transfer from English is not only important in the early stages of L2 acquisition of Spanish, but remains influential in later stages if there is not enough positive evidence for the learners to progress in their
Adjémian C., Al-Ansari S., Berman R. A., Cadierno T., Cadierno T., Cadierno T., Feist M., Françoise Tidball, Hendriks H., Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Lardiere D., MacWhinney B., Mari-carmen Gil Ortega, Mayer M., Montrul S., Morimoto Y., Navarro S., Pilar Larrañaga, Plauen E. O., Robinson P., Schröder K., Slobin D. I., Slobin D. I., Talmy L., Talmy L., Talmy L., Treffers-Daller J., Trujillo C., Zubizarreta M. L., Özçalışkan S., Özçalışkan S.   +30 more
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Pre‐task Vocabulary Support Enhances Lexical Learning but Dampens Positive Emotions: Interactive Task Implementation in English‐as‐a‐Foreign‐Language Classroom

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphorical Meanings of Some Prepositions in English Expressions of Sadness

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2023
The paper studies the language of sadness in English on a corpus of conventional expressions and aims at investigating the choice of prepositions combined with a number of sadness terms (e.g.
Csillag Andrea
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Lexical and functional adpositions: the view from of in Old and present-day English

Glossa, 2022
This article addresses the distinction amongst adpositions between those adpositions which are lexical and those which are functional. The article uses a corpus linguistic approach to address outstanding questions: whether there are two distinct ...
Roxanne Taylor
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The problems of using preposition in, on and at faced by the 10th grade students of SMAN 1 Timpah [PDF]

, 2015
The principle purposes of this research intend to know on the problems, which students faced in using preposition (on, in, and at) by the 10th grade students of SMAN 1 Timpah.
Khairullah, Khairullah
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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
wiley   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Spatial meanings of na and semantically related prepositions in Macedonian

Journal of Contemporary Philology, 2019
The paper presents а contrastive analysis of the spatial meanings of the preposition na and its semantic counterparts in Macedonian. Reviewed here are the contexts in which na assumes similarity of meaning to another preposition.
Aleksandar Pavlov
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source