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Field Notes
The observation approach to collecting data can adopt more or less structured procedures. The observational log, checklists and scales of evaluation...
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Knowledge and Writing in the Spanish Colony. The Promotion of Education and Literacy by the Jesuits and internal epistolary communication in the eighteenth-century Province of Paraguay
The aim of this contribution is to investigate the role of the Jesuit Order in disseminating education, knowledge and literacy in the historical...
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The Sense of the Sense of Smell in Virginia Woolf’s Flush
In her novella Flush, Virginia Woolf narrates the life of Elizabeth Barrett’s dog and deals with several issues central to her work, such as...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter first elaborates on the background, scope, and rationale. It then reviews the existing literature related to immigrants’...
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The C-ORAL-ESQ project: a corpus for the study of spontaneous speech of individuals with schizophrenia
This paper presents the C-ORAL-ESQ corpus project, which is dedicated to the study of the speech of individuals with schizophrenia. The main aim of...
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Teacher Leadership as the Missing Link Between TBLT Research and Pedagogical Practice
How can insights from research inform the practice of language teaching? In this chapter, we discuss reflections from the first phase of a project...
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A benchmark dataset and evaluation methodology for Chinese zero pronoun translation
The phenomenon of zero pronoun (ZP) has attracted increasing interest in the machine translation community due to its importance and difficulty....
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Textual Analysis of Facebook Communities Related to Depression
Because depression is a debilitating illness affecting individuals of all ages, genders, and socioeconomic groups, being aware of its signs helps...
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Writing proficiency in English as L2 in Spanish children with dyslexia
Different studies have demonstrated that people with dyslexia have difficulties in acquiring fluent reading and writing. These problems are also...
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Reflections on Language as a Vehicle of Economic Value
François Grin reviews public and academic discourses concerning linguistic diversity and the concept of language as a ‘public good’ or ‘hyper-public...
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Children’s Literature: Exploring Intertextual Relationships
Texts carry traces of the language, social and cultural characteristics of both the period in which they were written and the period before them....
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Constructing a 30-item test for character amnesia in Chinese
In the digital age, handwriting literacy has declined to a worrying degree, especially in non-alphabetic writing systems. In particular, Chinese (and...
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Pathway to the Korean Alphabet
This chapter overviews the invention of the Korean alphabet in the fifteenth century. It begins with the geopolitical and sociocultural contexts of...
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Effects of working memory and relevant knowledge on reading texts and infographics
Infographics are a new type of reading material comprising textual and visual information that has been used worldwide. Nonetheless, there has been...
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Accents and Dialects of English
According to Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 13), the term accent is used “for varieties of a language distinguished by pronunciation, opposing it to...
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Names and Naming
Since at least the time of Apollonius Dyscolus (The syntax of Apollonius Dyscolus, Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1981), On Syntax I: 78 it has been...
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Cross-lagged relationships between vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness among Chinese children: a longitudinal study from grade 1 to grade 3
Examining changes in the longitudinal relationship between vocabulary knowledge and three types of morphological awareness (MA), a cross-lagged...
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Voice Attractiveness Studies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic Speakers
This book addresses various aspects of acoustic–phonetic analysis, including voice quality and fundamental frequency, and the effects of speech...
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Chinese Ethnolinguistic Influences on Academic English as a Lingua Franca
As the number of Chinese-speaking academics and students who use English as an additional language for academic communication keeps growing, there...
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Discursive Positionings: Bucking the Traditional Roles
This chapter addresses discursive positions that emerge in the context of OMC affective practice, in particular the non-stereotypical positions of...