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The Textual Construction Of Femininity In Women's Fitness Magazines
(Linguistics, 2008-04-22)
Women in the first decade of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of traditional femininity and empowered femininity. Language, in particular Discourse Analysis, provides a means for investigating what these ...
Phonological Processes In Contemporary Spoken Bulgarian
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
This study investigates a number of phonological processes observed in the speech of 24 educated Bulgarian speakers. The speech of all subjects was recorded during 30 minute interviews conducted in 2004. Three speech styles ...
An Examination Of The Tone System Of Fur And Its Function In Grammar
(Linguistics, 2008-09-17)
This research into the tonal system of Fur and its grammatical functions began with several basic assumptions. These assumptions were based on the excellent prior research by Jakobi (1989), and Kutsch Lojenga and Waag(2000). ...
Adult ESOL Reading Comprehension And Text-to-speech Software
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
This study involved ten ESOL adults and examines the extent to which text-to-speech (TTS) software facilitates their reading comprehension. The five treatment participants read fifty, 300-word, non-fiction stories and ...
The Language Of The University: A Systemic Functional Analysis
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)
This study examines the negotiation of interpersonal meaning in the language of university administrators in their communications with students. The three texts in this study were written by the president of a large ...
Practical Understandings: Teachers' Beliefs And Practices In Pronunciation Teaching
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
Recent discussion regarding pronunciation teaching and the global expansion of English use have encouraged formal English education in the EFL/expanding circle countries.The present study involved three native English ...
Learner Perceptions Of Small Group And Pair Work In The ESL Classroom: Implications For Conditions In Second Language Acquisition
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
Second language acquisition (SLA) research finds that small group (SG) and pair work (PW) are essential tools in language learning, specifically creating optimal conditions for negotiation of meaning (e.g., Long, 1985; ...
Legitimate Strategies In Writing : Exploring ESOL Learner Perspectives On Attribution
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)
In many academic institutions today, ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) writers may incorporate background sources into their writing in ways unrecognized by their academic institutions, which could lead to these ...
Students' Noticing And Incorporation Of Written Feedback: A Snapshot Of ESOL Writing Instructors' Commentary On Adult ESOL Students' Essays
(Linguistics, 2008-04-22)
Combining descriptive text analysis with qualitative interviews, the current study addresses the student-teacher written feedback interaction. Reflecting upon the existing debate within second language acquisition research, ...
The Effects of Anaphor Form and Antecedent Type on Anaphoric Processing
(15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2008)