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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"420 English & Old English"”.
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Early language learning within a Greek regional context
… learners are not more successful in learning English, despite an early start and high exposure to the foreign language. Central to my study are student-teacher and student-student interactions within English language classrooms, including any linguistic, pedagogical, motivational or cultural …
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Assessing the role of Arabic in EFL classes: an activity theory approach
… investigate the role of Arabic in the classes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), by exploring the uses of Arabic during classroom activities that teachers and students engage in. I also look into how such role shapes the attitudes of the stakeholders in the institution where the research took …
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A multimodal perspective on modality in the English language classroom
… The lesson has been taken from a published English language teaching course book and is typical of the way modal forms are presented to teach epistemic modality in many commercially produced English language teaching course books. I argue that for cognitive, social, linguistic and procedural …
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An investigation into the intercultural competence of native and non-native English language teachers in London colleges
… competence has come to be of greater interest in English language teaching and learning over the past decades. However, a review of relevant literature shows that there is a lack of research on English language teachers‘ perceptions of intercultural competence and how it could be promoted within …
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Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
… refers to a targeted pronunciation level in English which enables non-native English speakers to produce and understand English speech uttered by both native and non-native English speakers (Abercrombie, 1949; Gimson, 2001; Cruttenden, 2014; Munro and Derwing, 2006; Levis, 2016). Instead of …
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An investigation of the relationships between Libyan EFL lecturers’ beliefs about the teaching and learning of reading in English and their classroom practices in Libyan universities
… of Libyan universities, where lecturers in English are non-native speakers of the language and have only minimal resources and limited access to published research and scholarship regarding this topic. The present qualitative study aims to fill this gap in knowledge, considering contextual …
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The effects of word characteristics on children's reading
… and Versatility and First Order approximation to English) were shown to be significant predictors of reading for good and poor readers and lexical decision performance for average readers. It also appeared that as reading ability improved, word properties such as the Orthographic Neighbour Ratio, …
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Lost in Menippea: the metabiography of Dambudzo Marechera
This creative writing thesis on Dambudzo Marechera divides into two parts: creative practice and critical commentary. In the creative practice, I dwell on the extraordinary life of Dambudzo Marechera, the late Zimbabwean writer, a life inseparable from Marechera’s equally remarkable fiction. This …
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From 'nobody to somebody' : challenges and opportunities for Gujarati women learning English in London
… and document analysis. The process of learning English as a second language is explored through an intersectional lens that takes account of gender, race and class and the corresponding identity constructions of Gujarati women. An inability to speak English for these women is further complicated …
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Shifting identities of Bengali female learners in ESOL : a poststructuralist feminist exploration of classed, ‘raced’ and gender identities
… identities of Bengali female learners of ESOL (English for Speakers of other languages) from a post-structuralist feminist position. My research is conducted within the post-compulsory educational context, exploring how Bengali women construct identities in relation to educational experiences of …