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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"contrastive analysis"”.
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Teachers’ guide towards a contrastive analysis of Arabic and English.
… interviewed: NE and NA speakers. A more detailed analysis was carried out with the NA teacher and his twenty-five students through classroom observations, questionnaire and a thirty-minute test. The participants were all intermediate level students. This research produced a number of key findings: …
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Description and contrastive analysis of tense and time in English and Arabic
Summary available; p. xxxi - xxxiii
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A contrastive analysis of individual ESL writing conferences: theory, practice, and perceptions
… the data examined according to conversation analysis methodology and ethnographic interview approach with what the current literature suggests as desired practice for conducting successful ESL writing conferences.
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A contrastive analysis of the English and Nepali past tenses and an error analysis of Nepali learners' use of the English past tenses
… has two main purposes: (a) to provide an analysis of the past tenses in Nepali and compare them with those of English from a discourse pragmatic perspective; and (b) to investigate how Nepali learners of English use the English past tenses in terms of forms, meanings, and functions.A major …
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A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Reported Speech and the Effects of Interference and Transfer in Learning English as A Foreign Language
Problem. By equating the processes of child first language acquisition, with those of adult foreign language learning, some scholars have been tempted to minimize the use of native language transfer strategy used by adults while performing in a foreign language. Nevertheless, there are some ot
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Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis
… that English language teachers deploy a contrastive analysis to help students understand how their ways of speaking differ from standard spoken English and other varieties of English, in preparation for developing appropriate speech accommodation strategies in interaction with other …
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ΜΕΡΙΚΕΣ ΠΤΥΧΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΕΙΨΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ
… FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING. THE RESULTS FROM THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS RECONFIRM THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ELLIPSIS IS MORE FREQUENTLY ENCOUNTERED IN ENGLISH THAN IN GREEKAND THAT ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS, FAR FROM BEING REDUCED FORMS OF THEIR PURPORTED EQUIVALENT FULL-FLEDGED CONSTRUCTIONS, DESERVE AN …
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A grammatical and pragmatic analysis of English passives in second language acquisition
… has two main purposes: (a) to provide a contrastive analysis and theoretical background of the passive in English and Korean; (b) to investigate how Korean learners of English use the English passive in terms of forms, meanings, and functions.One major claim in this dissertation is that …
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Diaphonic vocoid variants in inter-linguistic contact between English and Afrikaans, Afrikaans being the constant
… of leading investigators into the field of contrastive linguistics. Section B contains a brief contrastive analysis of phonetic and phonemic features of English and Afrikaans. The main body of Section C is devoted to an auditory analysis of reading and "free speech" tests. Renderings by …
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Minimum cut model for spoken lecture segmentation
… criterion. Central to this framework is a contrastive analysis of lexical distribution that simultaneously optimizes the total similarity within each segment and dissimilarity across segments. Our experimental results show that the normalized-cut algorithm obtains performance improvements …
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An Investigation of English Structure Rules in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… rating task, and a multiple-choice task. Contrastive analysis was used to hypothesize a sequence of acquisition for three pairs from among the selected errors. Eight three-way analyses of variance were performed with combined scores for each structure as the dependent variable and with …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… Some researchers have examined teachers' contrastive analysis of non-prestige varieties of English with that of the prestige variety (Pandey 2000, Wheeler and Swords 2006), but rarely has the teachers' acquisition of non-prestige forms been examined in any form (a notable exception is …
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Rethinking translation unit size: an empirical study of an English-Japanese newswire corpus
… units and their equivalents) are ideal for contrastive analysis. The identification method, ‘the one-equivalent principle’, established in this thesis is justified linguistically by a thorough, systematic review of the relevant literature, and empirically using nine case studies. The target …
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A triple case study of two Saudi and one Italian language learners' self-perceptions of target language (TL) speaking proficiency
… the present. This study was not intended as a contrastive analysis.</p> <p>The researcher was a monolingual English speaker with beginning experience in Korean and Spanish, and was currently working to become proficient in Italian. She has taught English at the elementary level in South Korea …
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A transformational treatment of Indian English syntax
… the main chapter of the dissertation. It is the analysis of selected, syntactically devient sentences from the corpus to illustrate the level on which the deviency occurs. The system of analysis used is that presented by Noam Chomsky in his Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. The analysis …
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