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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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EUPopLink Country report - Estonia. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Kutnarová P.
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The cognitive method in teaching Russian as a foreign language (on the example of teaching Russian pronunciation to foreign students)

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2013
In the article the ways of realization of cognitive method in the study process of Russian language pronunciation, the special features of teaching Russian phonetic system to Chinese students are observed, practical recommendations, samples of educational materials containing methods of presentation and types of exercises are suggested.
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‘[You Are German] When You no Longer Stick Out’: The Meaning of Being German From the Perspective of Germans With and Without a Migrant Background

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While several quantitative studies have examined civic and ethno‐cultural notions of nationhood among German citizens, the meaning of being German in general and the ambiguities of the term in particular have remained underexplored. Furthermore, this line of scholarship has examined German citizens but has neglected the perspective of Germans ...
Marlene Mußotter, Eunike Piwoni
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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
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Cognitive Individual Differences in Multilingualism: Language Aptitude and Working Memory in L3 Learners. [PDF]

J Psycholinguist Res
Öztekin E, Erçetin G.
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Making Boundaries: Polish Memory, Identity and the Ukrainian Other

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Political elites use historical references abundantly when drawing national boundaries. Despite the prominence of such language, we know little about the ways in which ordinary citizens internalise historical narratives of the Other to construct their national identity.
Félix Krawatzek
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A cross-sectional study exploring academic motivation among rehabilitation science students under different teaching approaches in China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hu H, Luo H.
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Nationalism, Balance of Power, and World Order: Untangling Neorealism's Troubled Relationship With Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While many explain the crisis of the liberal international order through nationalism, its treatment by neorealist scholars remains frustrating. Untangling the nationalism–neorealism relationship would help explain the current crisis and enhance neorealism's explanatory power.
Dylan Motin
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Academic jealousy, attitudes, and motivation in relation to foreign language learning effort: a structural equation modeling approach. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Ayçiçek B, Orakci Ş.
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