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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"English (Old)"”.
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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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"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
… impression is much less obvious in the Middle English King Horn, however. With that romance’s famously sparse narration, Horn needs to define his identity through his disguise, leading to a plot structure where his final noble identity is built on (rather than created in contrast with) the …
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Analysis of Literary Devices in Selected Novels of Severine Ndunguru
… Also the writer succeeds in employing the English language to present these literary devices, and these literary devices show their usefulness in the thematic part of the novels. The analysis of these works offers a contribution to the existing knowledge in the way literary devices are …
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Workers' playtime: an enquiry into the relationship between Paris May '68 and the development of British political theatre 1968-1978
This thesis examines how and why the revolutionary political and aesthetic theories articulated throughout Paris May’68, influenced the formal development and political struggles of British Political Theatre between 1968-1978. In particular, the thesis traces how the radical philosophy of the …
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Reading suburban narratives
This thesis discusses London suburban-set fiction as enacting a key semiotic problem of modernity: how the individual must interpret, make sense of, and inhabit a particular locality. By semiotic here I mean the individual's drive to capture external reality, to read and constitute a sense of what …
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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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Imaginal response: an adaptation of Jung's "active imagination" into a mode of responding to archetypal images in Shakespeare's Hamlet
This thesis follows the standard structure of a psychological dissertation. The first chapter introduces 'imaginal response', offering an outline of this enquiry, its aims and procedures. The second chapter reviews the literature relevant to this subject, and offers a theoretical/conceptual basis …
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Teachers’ constructions of creativity in secondary English: who gets to be creative in class?
This thesis examines English teachers’ constructions of creativity in three different schools. The investigation is of interest because of the importance given to creativity by English teachers and the contested, shifting role it plays in English teaching and education as a whole. It differs from …
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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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Poststructuralism, postmodernism and British academic attitudes: with special reference to David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici
… poststructuralism has penetrated the teaching of English in British Higher Education. The second surveys the Methuen New Accents series.
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A materialist and intertextual examination of the process of writing a work of children's literature
This thesis comes under the terms of Clause 3.2 in the booklet Research Degrees, Regulations and Notes for Guidance for the University of North London where it is stated that 'A candidate may undertake a programme of research in which the candidate's own creative work forms, as a point of origin or …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
This thesis looks at a selection of novels by diasporic writers which engage significantly with the domestic sphere and its associated practices in their narratives of migration to Britain from postcolonial spaces. Employing a feminist postcolonial approach to works by Buchi Emecheta, Monica Ali, …
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Cruciform runes in the manuscripts of some Old English poems
… reinforce existing interpretations or to point old views in new directions. That is, the form of a rune, especially a "cruciform" rune, may serve to give special symbolic force to the passage or poem which contains it, and runes may also serve to evoke generally the ethos of an older, heroic …
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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 …
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