The Modern Literary Process in China in the Works of Russian Literary Scholars-Sinologists: Features of the Research Perspective [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese literature is actively studied by Russian literary critics, whose view of a foreign cultural text inevitably differs from that of their Chinese colleagues.
Zhao Xue, Yuliya А. Govorukhina
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Introduction: Receptive multilingualism [PDF]
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is devoted to receptive multilingualism (RM), and includes papers presented in the conference Receptive Multilingualism: Multilingual Resources in the Service of Mutual Understanding, held at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, in 2015.
Harmavaara Hanna-Ilona +2 more
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Comprehension of Ukrainian by Estonians via Russian: Structural and extra-linguistic aspects
This study explores how people use and expand their linguistic resources in the situation when they have some proficiency in L2 and try to understand L3 that is related to L2.
Anna Branets, Anna Verschik
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Web-based experiments in mediated receptive multilingualism
The article focuses on phenomena of cross-lingual comprehension mediated by a bridge language. In a web-based experiment, German speaking subjects – without any previous knowledge of Bulgarian – translate written Bulgarian stimuli relying on some knowledge of Russian.
Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova
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Language comprehension strategies of German language speakers with receptive skills in Hungarian
This article deals with language comprehension strategies of German language speakers with receptive skills in Hungarian. This study explores how they come to terms with understanding two short Hungarian texts.
Isabel Zins
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The role of content and language in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) at university: Challenges and implications for ESP [PDF]
In a context characterized by the increasing presence of CLIL programs in universities with a tradition of ESP courses, we analyze the case of a university in Catalonia (Spain) with regard to the position of CLIL and ESP. As CLIL programs are promoted to
Arnó Macià, Elisabet +1 more
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Predicting language learners' grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: the effect of some psychological and sociocognitive variables [PDF]
This study of 89 Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 (French), L3 (English) and L4 (German) investigates the effects of three higher-level personality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), one lower-level personality ...
Argyle M. +36 more
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Livvinkarjalaisen tekstin ymmärtäminen suomen pohjalta
Reseptiivistä monikielisyyttä (RM) on suomalaisugrilaisessa kontekstissa tarkasteltu tavallisimmin viron ja suomen keskinäisen ymmärrettävyyden kannalta.
Pirkko Muikku-Werner, Helka Riionheimo
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Migrants' minority-language newspeakerism: The pervasiveness of nation-state monolingual regimes in transnational contexts [PDF]
From a critical sociolinguistics perspective, this paper investigates processes of minority-language newspeakerism among 23 migrants from heterogeneous socioeconomic and language backgrounds.
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
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Monitasoinen samankaltaisuus: virolaiset ja suomenkielisen tekstin ymmärtäminen
"Multidimensional similarity: Estonians and comprehension of Finnish text" Previous studies have proven that Finns reading an Estonian text use many different strategies to find the meanings of cognate words. In this article, the factors affecting the
Pirkko Muikku-Werner
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