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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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Phrasemes in German as a Foreign Language Teaching for Chinese Learners

Contemporary Education Frontiers
This paper proposes a systematic, four-step phraseology lesson (focusing on Schwein haben) for B1-level Chinese German studies students. A survey of 39 Chinese students (B1-C1.1) confirmed difficulty with phrasemes, especially full idioms like nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben.
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The Experiences of Students in English Language Teaching on Learning “German as a Foreign Language”

Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
The aim of this study is to illustrate the experiences of students who have taken the optional course “German as a Foreign Language” using the textbook “studio d A1” (Funk et al., 2010) at the Department for English Language Teaching at Bursa Uludağ University, and also their reasons for learning a second foreign
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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The Effectiveness of Communicative Approach in Teaching German as a Foreign Language

This article examines the effectiveness of the Communicative Approach in teaching German as a foreign language. The study focuses on how communicative language teaching enhances learners’ communicative competence, fluency, and classroom interaction. A qualitative-descriptive method was applied, based on classroom observations, analysis of communicative
Abdullayeva Guljahon, Abdullayev Davron, Madyorov Shuhrat   +2 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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A Humorous Text as a Means of Teaching a Foreign Language (On the Material of the German Language) [PDF]

Pedagogy, Psychology, Society, 2021
Oksana Viacheslavovna Berngardt, Iuliia Anatolevna Surianinova, Anetta Valerevna Berngardt   +2 more
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