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Comparative analysis of phraseological units of Body parts lexico-semantic field (on the material of Arabic, Avar and Russian languages)

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2011
The article attempts to study phraseological units with somatic body parts component of the Arabic language in comparison with Аvar and Russian languages.
Z I Ismailova
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Does order of instruction matter? A language program intervention for preterite‐imperfect learning

Foreign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 677-702, Fall 2025.
Abstract Research on L2 acquisition of the Spanish perfective and imperfective past has suggested that order‐of‐instruction (preterite before imperfect) may significantly contribute to learners' difficulty with mastering the imperfect. We sought to empirically test the effect of order‐of‐instruction by implementing a program‐wide intervention in a ...
Claudia Sánchez‐Gutiérrez, Sophia Minnillo, Ana Ortega Pérez, Ana Ruiz‐Alonso‐Bartol   +3 more
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Lexical exponents of hypothetical modality in Polish and Lithuanian

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015
Lexical exponents of hypothetical modality in Polish and Lithuanian The article focuses on the lexical exponents of hypothetical modality in Polish and Lithuanian. The purpose for comparing and contrasting the lexical exponents of hypothetical modality
Roman Roszko
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Explicit and implicit (automatized) knowledge of second language pronunciation: Implications for theory, research, and classroom practice

Foreign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 346-366, Summer 2025.
Abstract Although the distinction between explicit and implicit (automatized) knowledge of second or foreign language (L2) is of crucial importance to second language acquisition (SLA) theory and research, it has thus far not been directly applied to L2 pronunciation.
Mirosław Pawlak
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Culture as Reflected in Somatic Idioms [PDF]

Filolog, 2019
The aims of this paper are threefold: first, to analyse the ways in which culture is reflected in idioms; second, to discuss the role of body-part words in idioms; third, to determine the differences and similarities between the English and Georgian ...
Irine Goshkheteliani
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Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 344-364, Summer 2025.
Abstract Lexical proficiency in a second language (L2) has long been effectively assessed through the measurement of various lexical indices, or textual characteristics that act as observable indicators of such conceptual categories as lexical richness, diversity, sophistication, and fluency.
Olesya Kisselev, Mihail Kopotev, Anton Vakhranev   +2 more
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Saisir l’insaisissable? Les mesures de longueur d’énoncés en linguistique appliquée [PDF]

, 2000
The utterance is a widely used linguistic unit. It seems, however, to escape every attempt to define it unequivocally. There seems to be a consensus in applied linguistics that a fuzzy combination of syntactic, semantic and prosodic clues are necessary ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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PREPOSITION IN THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACE OF LANGUAGE

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
This article discusses the theoretical and practical sig-niicance of the comparative study of prepositions in their discursive realizations, the reasons for their interlingual semantic differences against the background of universality of cognitive ...
Z. Kasyanova, C. Martirosyan
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Proactive Language Learning Theory

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 295-329, March 2025.
Abstract Second language acquisition theory has traditionally focused on the cognitive and psycholinguistic processes involved in additional language (L2) learning. In addition, research on learner psychology has primarily centered on learners’ cognitive abilities (e.g., aptitude and working memory) and internal traits or states (e.g., dispositions ...
Mostafa Papi, Phil Hiver
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Writing in Creole Contexts: A Study of Jamaican Primary School Students

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
This study explored the nature and challenges of English writing among primary school learners who speak Jamaican Creole as their home and dominant language. Abstract Creole‐speaking contexts are significantly underrepresented in language and literacy research yet present a unique context for understanding the nature of language and literacy ...
Shawna‐Kaye D. Tucker, Hamish Chalmers, Victoria A. Murphy   +2 more
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