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Promethean struggle. Shelley, Keats, and Norwid in search of rescue in the risky world
Crossroads, 2022 The myth of Prometheus sacrificing his freedom to give men authority over a powerful element of nature despite the will of the gods has, in modern times, inspired authors of different languages who kept transforming it according to their views.
Aleksandra Niemirycz
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LanguagesHulstijn’s BLC Theory proposes a dissociation between cognitive individual differences and two types of cognition—the cognition of oral language and the cognition of written language.
Gisela Granena
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Motivation and Aptitude: A Partial Validation of ECT-L2A
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019 Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A; Han, Bao & Wiita, 2017), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals’ ultimate attainment as a ...
Peter Kim
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The Relationship between Love, the Perfection of the Soul, and the Behavioral Manifestations of the Lover in the Thought of Ibn Sīnā and Mullā Ṣadrā [PDF]
حکمت سینویLove, which is the joy arising from the presence of beauty, is divided into two kinds—true and metaphorical—and is regarded as one of the ways through which the soul attains perfection.
Fateme Soleimani, zahra Mirzakarimi
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More than Dollars for Scholars: The Impact of the Dell Scholars Program on College Access, Persistence and Degree Attainment [PDF]
, 2016 Although college enrollment rates have increased substantially over the last several decades, socioeconomic inequalities in college completion have actually widened over time.
Benjamin L. Castleman +2 more
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Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2020 A fundamental distinction in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) is route versus rate of acquisition (or L2 development). While the former has traditionally referred to developmental sequences of learning, the latter denotes the speed with ...
Ashley Beccia
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Parental visions of their children’s future as a motivator for an early start in a foreign language
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015 This paper reports on the qualitative part of a project investigating parental educational aspirations as manifested by enrolling their children (aged 3-6) into very early L2 instruction.
Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow
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Production of voice onset time (VOT) by senior Polish learners of English
Open Linguistics, 2021 Although research on foreign language learning among seniors has recently accelerated, studies on L2 phonology in this age group remain scarce. Seniors may be at a great disadvantage when it comes to learning the sounds of a foreign language because age ...
Sypiańska Jolanta
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, 2014 In this essay, I consider how the theological virtue of hope might be practiced. I will first explain Thomas Aquinas’s account of this virtue, including its structural relation to the passion of hope, its opposing vices, and its relationship to the ...
DeYoung, Rebecca Konyndyk
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Rethinking higher education and its relationship with social inequalities: Past knowledge, present state and future potential [PDF]
, 2017 The purposes and impact of higher education on the economy and the broader society have been transformed through time in various ways. Higher education institutional and policy dynamics differ across time, but also between countries and political regimes
Kromydas, Theocharis
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