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The Effect of Instructed Second Language Learning on the Acoustic Properties of First Language Speech

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
This paper reports on a comprehensive phonetic study of American classroom learners of Russian, investigating the influence of the second language (L2) on the first language (L1). Russian and English productions of 20 learners were compared to 18 English
Olga Dmitrieva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Countable and Uncounatable Nouns in Russian and English and Their Markers

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2014
The article describes countable and uncountable nouns in the Russian and English languages and their markers. The analysis shows that Russian and English have some common means to express these categories.
A B Kostromin, T V Emelyanova
doaj  

Academic Paper Titles and Their Dominating Patterns: a Russian-English Perspective

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
The article shows the key role that academic paper titles play in presenting paper contents and burden, and demonstrates cultural and linguistic differences between the academic style in Russian and in English.
Nadezhda K. Ryabtseva
doaj   +1 more source

‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Decarbonization via Technology and Management

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive overview of key findings on decarbonization, advanced technologies, and management strategies, highlighting emerging themes shaping the field. Advanced technologies enhance carbon reduction through efficiency, real‐time monitoring, and optimizing resource optimization.
Heidy Montero‐Teran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PECULIARITIES OF CONJUNCTIVE INCLINATION TRANSLATION IN THE ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020
Purpose. The article is devoted to studying the methods of translating the subjunctive mood and determining the most frequency groups by conducting a statistical analysis of all forms based on the material of one literary text in the original and Russian
Tatiana Vladimirovna Emets   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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