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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"PE English"”.
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Vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary skills, and integrative motivation levels among university students in Batam
The Basic elements that contribute to the English proficiency are motivation and vocabulary learning strategies. Yet these two elements are generally acknowledged among language teachers and learners as an essential factor in language competence, but paid less attention in the learning process …
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Pictures on the wall of my life : photographs to life writing to fiction, an ekphrastic journey
… ‘imagetext’.1 The novel is narrated in the first person by Lily Adams who learns from the many ancestral portraits in black and white that line the halls of her childhood home that what they embody is not visually representative of a past she has been encouraged to believe in, but rather of one …
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The power & politics of naming: literary onomastics within dystopian fiction
… has received little scholarly attention. As a specialised genre, the number of core novels used to define the boundaries is relatively small, and thus allows research as a series in order to buil an interpretation that covers the genre as a whole.
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A study of the semantic characteristics of the modal auxiliaries may and might in Scots
Scots has developed differently from Standard English. The use of modal auxiliaries in Present-Day Scots seems to be different from Present-Day Standard English. In this paper the semantics of MAY and MIGHT in Scots are studied. Several studies of Scots, for instance Miller (2003) and Kirk (1987), …
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
My thesis consists of an examination of various types of place-name formations, as evidence of the linguistic contact and interaction which occurred between incoming Scandinavian speakers and the native population of northern Britain, in light of current theories of language contact. The first …
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A classification of the semantic field good and evil in the vocabulary of English
… will form part of the Historical Thesaurus of English currently being compiled in the English Language Department of Glasgow University. Some significant features of the Good and Evil classification system, devised and explained in this thesis, have also been adopted by the Historical …
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Studies in the dialect materials of medieval Herefordshire
… means. The study builds on the methodology developed in connection with the Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986), but goes far beyond it both in its analysis of the individual texts and in using the data for descriptive and interpretative study. The aim is …
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The monstrous female: monstrosity in the Anglo-Saxon monstrous and early modern witchcraft traditions
… matrix informed the early modern Scottish and English witchcraft traditions. This new analysis of witchcraft literature will involve re-conceiving it as part of a much longer continuum of monstrosity that may be traced to the Anglo-Saxon Marvels of the East. An analysis of witches in relation …
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Vernacular literacy in late-medieval England: the example of East Anglian medical manuscripts
… East Anglia, using the evidence supplied by English medical texts datable to between 1350-1500- It addresses not only the texts, but also the manuscripts in which they survive and the people who wrote, owned and read them. By this means I have been able to examine the literacy of a group of …
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Beyond the mere word. Exploring the language of Drama through text- and performance-based approaches for developing L2 oral skills
… as self-standing extracts and as a full-scale performance for developing learners’ oral skills in terms of complexity, accuracy and fluency and their positive attitudes towards foreign language learning within a high school compulsory curriculum in an Italian context. The rationale for …
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An investigation into the Professional Development of English Teachers in Syrian Secondary Schools.
… development (TPD), as an important topic within English language teaching, the researcher identified some areas where there is much still to reveal. These include: teachers' customary engagement with different TPD activities aside from when a researcher imposes some TPD activity on them for a …
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Which skills influence pre-school children’s repetition of words, non-words and sentences?
… children’s non-word, word and sentence repetition (NWR, WR and SR). Previous studies have revealed that children with language difficulties find these tasks difficult, but there is debate about which skills are measured. This study aimed to contribute to this understanding. Identification …
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The text compositional architecture of university lectures: an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse
… In doing so, it employs techniques developed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate how lectures are structured in terms of “genre” and the related issue of what is termed “hierarchy of periodicity”. It applies these techniques to the analysis of a small selection of …
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Collocation and preposition sense: a phraseological approach to the cognition of polysemy
This study explores the relationship between the ‘sense’ of the prepositions over, into and through and the combined ‘form’ of their preceding and following nouns, using the hypothesis that the co-occurring nouns can predict different senses of the prepositions. It uses concepts drawn from both …
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Recontextualistion in the police station
Recontextualisation involves repetition and change; it is central to police work. Officers routinely transform the words of the legal institution by explaining them to lay people and they routinely transform the words of lay people for institutional use. This thesis explores police officers’ …
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'My Testament in Englisshe Tonge': A study in the use of the vernacular in medieval wills
… the gradual emergence and development of the English testament from the earliest surviving examples until 1499. The introductory section of this interdisciplinary study examines the religious and legal origins of the first vernacular dispositive acts, the oral roots of the testamentary process …
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A genre-based study of pedagogical business case reports
… programmes. In order to inform language-based pedagogical support, this thesis set out to explore the linguistic characteristics of these case reports and to evaluate different approaches to the teaching and learning of business case report writing. Analysis of a specially constructed case …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
… friendship through its articulation in non-Shakespearean early modern drama; and considers how dramatic texts engage with the classical ideals of male friendship. Cicero’s \(De amicitia\) provided the theoretical model for perfect friendship for the early modern period; and this thesis argues for …
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