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This rich and varied collection of papers is concerned with feedback in the language learning context. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the feedback process including peer feedback, online feedback, learner-centred feedback, feedback formulation as well as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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In literary works, the law of genre – generic boundaries determined by institutions and conventions of art and literature – reacts to threats of impurity. The three significant modernist works addressed herein by James Joyce (Ulysses), Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts),...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. The key idea that frames the book is the assumption concerning the culture-creating functions of such dichotomies as containment/incontinence,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This book explores a dialect contact situation in a second language setting – native speakers of English coming to Japan from different parts of the world as English teachers. It focuses on an Anglophone community in which speakers are socially and geographically mobile...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506–1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-16
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This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. In view of the fact that semantic change is the type of change by which the relationship...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-09
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This book examines the relationship between learner motivation and cultural contents for the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. It takes Chile as an example of the «Expanding Circle of English», where the 21st century has brought new challenges to English...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-03
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What are the cultural challenges of migration in Canada in the context of «glocalization»? In what areas can we recognise the advent of a specific cultural dimension which, in turn, calls for the development of a model character within the global sphere linked to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-12
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Given the increasing use of English worldwide and in intercultural communication, there is a growing interest in attitudes towards non-native speaker accents in English. Research on attitudes towards non-native English accents is therefore important because of concerns...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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This volume presents the first edition of Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter 509 (ff. 1r-167v), an English medical manuscript of the late Middle Ages. Copied in the second half of the fifteenth century, the larger part of the codex contains a witness of the Middle...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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This book received the Enrique Alcaraz Research Award in 2015. Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-04-11
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Following two major waves of immigration after World War II, the Bangladeshi community in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets is now one of the largest in the Bangladeshi diaspora, counting some 65,000 people. This is the first in-depth study of language and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-17
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The aim of this book is to analyse and evaluate the problems that may arise from ideology-driven shifts in the translation process as a result of gender differences.The issue of ideology is linked to that of language and power and this link legitimates a linguistic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-13
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This book is a collection of papers on subjects related to poetry and its language. Scholars in literature, translation, linguistics, philosophy and history share their readings of poetic expression from various ages. The result is a multi-disciplinary perspective that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-23
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Translators, law students or legal professionals who begin to deal with legal language face a bewildering variety of legal writings. Even though legal language has been examined from a multitude of perspectives, there are virtually no studies explicitly addressing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-10-03
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What did eighteenth-century men and women think about when they contemplated the future?What was hidden in the «dark bosom of futurity», as Richardson’s Pamela calls it? Do all types of literature that supply a critique of the present conjure up an idealized past or a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-26
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Dieses Buch wurde mit dem «Ciuti Preis 2012» ausgezeichnet. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Berufsstand der Dolmetscher im Dritten Reich. Anhand zeitgenössischer Quellen wird gezeigt, wie die Nationalsozialisten das Dolmetscherwesen für ihre Zwecke zu vereinnahmen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-26
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The present book is a collection of selected papers held at the 23rd International LAUD Symposium on «The Cultural Context in Communication Across Languages» (26-31 March 1997) in Duisburg, Germany.The papers included in this volume highlight several aspects pertaining...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-29
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Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner looks at the role of FFI at higher levels of foreign language learning. It argues that – contrary to a common belief – there are aspects of grammar to be taught to the proficient FL user. While such a learner...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-21
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Die Produktion zielsprachenkonformer Kollokationen stellt auch für fortgeschrittene Lerner des Englischen ein großes Problem dar. Wie können Lerner dahingehend gefördert werden, das Phänomen Kollokation zunehmend selbstständig zu beherrschen? In dieser Arbeit wird ein...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-17
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