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Erasmus students using English as a "lingua franca": does study abroad in a non-English-speaking country improve L2 English? [PDF]
, 2016 There is a lack of research on the impact of study abroad (SA) on the development of L2 English when students study in non-anglophone countries. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by examining 39 Catalan/Spanish students who, as part of an ...
Arnó Macià, Elisabet +2 more
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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Focus or narrative constructions? : Morphosyntactically marked focus constructions in some Gur and Kwa languages [PDF]
, 2009 0. Introduction 1. Observations concerning the structure of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions 1.1 First observation: SF vs. NSF asymmetry 1.2 Second observation: NSF-NAR parallelism 1.3 Affirmative ex-situ focus constructions (SF, NSF), and ...
Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
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It's Not You, It's the System: Women Professors in TESOL and the Persistence of Gender Bias
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Although progress has been made with respect to the role and position of women in academia, overt and covert discrimination as well as structural and systemic bias persist. In this article, we report on research conducted with 14 women professors from 10 different countries to explore to what extent these issues affect women professors in ...
Sarah Mercer +3 more
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Общество: социология, психология, педагогика, 2020 The present study identifies psychological and methodological problems of education determined by introduction of the second foreign language as a new subject in some non linguistic departments of arts and humanities universities. The author provides the analysis of a situation of artificial subordinate trilingualism which serves the background of ...
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Intersectional theory recognises inequity is rarely the result of one social identity; social identities, and their interaction with context and power relations, offer some protective factors, while marginalises others. Taking an intersectional approach to social policy has the potential to provide deeper insights in terms of identifying and ...
Shona Bates, Rosemary Kayess, Ilan Katz
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PROBLEMS OF SEMANTICS, PRAGMATICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS, 2017 The article focuses on the violation of role expectations by speakers with asymmetric statuses in the process of dialogical speech. The study is based on the materials of the English-language series ‘Suits’, specifically, on film dialogues as they are close to real communication, and film characters are representatives of various professions, so this ...
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The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory. [PDF]
, 2005 This is a pre-publication version of Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten. 2005. The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory. In S. Unsworth, T. Parodi, A. Sorace and M.
Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
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WOMAN REPRESENTATION AT BUMPER STICKERS ON THE BACKS OF DUMP TRUCKS [PDF]
, 2012 The use of woman as a commercial object or advertisements through written expression by the drivers at the bumper stickers on the backs of dump trucks is rapidly adopted.
Budiman, Muhammad Arief +1 more
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Inferentials in spoken English [PDF]
, 2011 Although there is a growing body of research on inferential sentences (Declerck 1992, Delahunty 1990, 1995, 2001, Koops 2007, Pusch 2006), most of this research has been on their forms and functions in written discourse.
Calude, Andreea S., Delahunty, Gerald P.
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