Kalyaniwala, Carmenne Nissen, Elke Révauger, Guilène
This thematic issue of Alsic is the result of a collaboration with the French Association for research in English Learning and Teaching (Association pour la recherche en didactique et acquisition de l'anglais, ARDAA). It focuses on contemporary research into virtual and digital spaces, and on changing perspectives in relation with the teaching and ...
Zalani, Mahdi Weisi, Hiwa Yousofi, Nouroddin
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Frontiers in Education
This study examined the influence of mobile-assisted critical writing instructions on EFL learners' writing skill in language institutes. Ninety EFL learners who were studying English at three branches of a language institute in Iran took part in this research. Two equal groups as control and experimental were formed. As the pretest, a writing task...
babatsouli, elena
Understanding the role of input in bilingual phonological acquisition is revealing for deciphering the workings of language acquisition processes. Input and usage distributional frequencies guide and differentiate speech sound acquisition patterns cross-linguistically. Such processes are operant in first- and second-language acquisition. There is a...
Kralova, Zdena Petrovic, Frantisek Hrbackova, Karla Sebokova, Jessica
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
The article focuses on tracing changes in Slovak pre-service TEFL student teachers’ emotional states over the first semester of their university study and detecting possible factors inciting their emotions. It highlights the importance of understanding these emotional states as they significantly impact students’ perceptions of their suitability as...
Vanek, Norbert Matić Škorić, Ana Košutar, Sara Matějka, Štěpán Stone, Kate
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Is negation more difficult to process than affirmation? If it is, does processing negation in a second language (L2) compound the difficulty compared to the first language (L1)? This article addresses the issues of difficulties in processing different types of negation in the L1 and L2 by looking at the differences in the ways in which comprehender...
Poole, Ethan Mendia, Jon Ander Keine, Stefan
Abstract: This squib presents three new arguments that the matrix subject in English tough-constructions cannot reconstruct into the embedded gap. The first two arguments reexamine data in the literature purported to show such reconstruction. Upon closer scrutiny, we argue that these data in fact involve short reconstruction below a modal or generi...
Qu, Jiashen Miwa, Koji
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Cognitive Linguistics
Events can be perceived from different perspectives. Langacker, Ronald W. (1990. Subjectification. Cognitive Linguistics 1. 5–38) typologically categorised the perspectives in event construal as subjective construal and objective construal based on how egocentric a perspective is. Compared with Western languages, such as English, Japanese is argued...
Rasmus, Agnieszka
This article considers the significance of different Shakespearean allusions in a political docudrama miniseries This England (2022), directed for Sky by Michael Winterbottom and scripted by Winterbottom and Kieron Quirke. The action focuses on the first crucial months in England after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, offering a panoramic vie...
Ghai, Affef Alghazo, Sharif
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Open Education Studies
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and 40...
Jung, Ye Jee Dmitrieva, Olga
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Clear speech, a speaking style used to mitigate communicative circumstances affecting the transmission or decoding of speech signal, often involves the enhancement of language-specific phonological contrasts, including laryngeal contrasts. This study investigates the role of language dominance in the implementation of language-specific laryngeal co...