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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"2003 Language Studies"”.
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An action research study of English teaching in grade seven at Bamrung Wittaya School, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
… project which was conducted to improve students’ language learning performance and also my teaching practice by implementing the student-centred (Communicative Language Teaching: CLT) approach which is well known among foreign language teachers as a practical teaching approach to create the …
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Transnational variation in linguistic politeness in Vietnamese : Australia and Vietnam
Over the past three decades, the Vietnamese language has undergone substantial changes, both in Vietnam, and in diasporic contexts such as Australia. Yet the nature of the variation resulting from those changes at the sociopragmatic level in expressing politeness is little researched. The question …
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An ecological approach to researching biliteracy development of Indonesian bilingual children in Australian social contexts
… reports a study of how literacy in English language impacts on the process and experience of acquiring literacy in an Indonesian language within an ecological approach to language development in the three intersecting of Australian social context: schools, homes, and community. The …
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Cultural translation from Chinese to English: a case study of the problems in the translation and interpretation of selected contemporary texts
The present thesis argues for an "extended (cross-)cultural approach to literary translation". It proposes that socio-cultural elements pertaining to a literary text extend beyond the commonly understood scope and depth of literary translation into the macro-contextual sphere, as they arise before …
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Italian Australians, the church, war and fascism in Melbourne, 1919-1945
There is no doubt that the Irish have played a major part in Australian Catholic Church history, but I question the notion that they have been the only contributor to the Australian Catholic Church in Australia. Numerous Australian Catholic Church histories fail to acknowledge the Italian …
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Teaching English grammar communicatively in an Indonesian University
… the unsatisfactory achievement of ELT [English language teaching] in higher education mainly results from unclear objectives in the syllabuses of ELT, a view also supported by Barus (1991: 5). In particular, Nababan argues that unclear objectives lead to difficulty in assessing achievement in …
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Second language learning strategies and factors affecting their use: a qualitative study of the experiences of missionaries in Nepal
… past 20 years identifying the effective second language learning strategies of language learners is a topic that has received considerable attention in the field of second language acquisition. More recently, research has focused on the factors that affect strategy use. Attention has been …
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Revisiting Babel : sport and poetry
… of semiotic through the resources of ordinary language supplemented by three specialised kinds of language - sport as a language, mythology as a language, and poetry as a language. This work, as a hermeneutic of sport as poetry, grapples with the question of how to understand and interpret the …
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Multi-sensory teaching techniques in foreign language acquisition for students with specific learning disabilities and dyslexia
… successfully in teaching English as a foreign language. This thesis discusses the problems faced by pupils with learning disabilities (L.D.) and why their difficulty in learning English as a foreign language is such a barrier to their progress in a world where English has become the global …