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Phonological task comparability in Arabic and relation to reading: a longitudinal assessment in kindergarten and first grade
The universal role of phonological processing skills for reading acquisition has been established in many different languages including Arabic....
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Tasks in L2 Syllabus Design
This chapter discusses current models of L2 task sequencing based on the cognitive demands for L2 processing that they make on learners. Two...
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Introduction to Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions
In the introduction, we have embedded our overview of the contributions to this volume within a narrative that reviews past and extant research on...
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Future Tense Acquisition by French-Speaking Learners of L2 Spanish: Chronology, Conjecture and Concession
The different interpretations of future tenseTense in Romance languages arise due to the interaction of morphosyntax with language-external discourse...
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Implicit sequence learning is preserved in dyslexic children
This study investigates the implicit sequence learning abilities of dyslexic children using an artificial grammar learning task with an extended...
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Portuguese spelling in primary grades: complexity, length and lexicality effects
This study investigates spelling abilities of 189 second, third, and fourth graders using a word and pseudoword dictation task in European...
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Logic in Ancient Chinese Texts
Over the five thousand years’ civilization, scholarship on Chinese views on ancient logic and texts attends to focus on the contribution of early...
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Building Vocabulary Through Interaction
Chapters 2, 3 and 4 present empirical data and provide a fine-grained description and interpretation of the lives of the six participants as they...
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The Hooded Student as a Metaphor: Multimodal Recontextualization of the Chilean Student Movement in a Broadcast News Report
This chapter analyzes the multimodal representation of the narratives associated with the figure of the student as an inherently violent social actor...
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Understanding Interpreting and Diplomacy: Reflections on the Early Cold War (1945–1963)
The years after World War II represent the origins of the Cold War era. This chapter argues that the study of Cold War diplomacy from the...
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Artistic Research as a Quest of the New Knowledge. On Practice-Based Research in Acting
The article reveals the specifics of artistic researchartistic research and the controversies of its assessment. It shares the view that the...
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Emotional Branding in Multimodal Personal Loan TV Advertisements: Analysing Voices and Engagement
By analysing multimodal TV advertisements for personal loan services, this chapter aims to show how BakhtinBakhtin, Mikhail’s (Rabelais and his...
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Develo** a Foreign Language Geragogy: Teaching Innovations for Older Learners
This chapter suggests modifying several teaching techniques in order to improve Japanese older adults’ foreign language learning. Such innovations...
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Multi-method Discourse Analysis of Twitter Communication: A Comparison of Two Global Political Issues
This chapter presents a multi-method discourse analytical approach to analyse Twitter communication on two political issues of global concern:...
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Music, Centres and Peripheries
This chapter sets the investigation on music and translation within the contemporary global context that determines how music is produced and...
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Word decoding development in incremental phonics instruction in a transparent orthography
The present longitudinal study aimed to investigate the development of word decoding skills during incremental phonics instruction in Dutch as a...
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The Theory of Profesional and Business Communication in Contemporary Linguistics
The system of linguistic and social worldviews reflects professional ideology, which forms a specific mindset and philosophy within a professional...
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The Musicality of Literature and the Semiotics of Music
The musicality of literary text can be analyzed in many aspects and using various methodologies, the main ones being hermeneutical and semiotic; but...
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Develo** Literacy Across the Curriculum for Science and Maths
This chapter develops the ideas presented in Chapters 4 and 5...
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Prologue
In this chapter, the project on which this book is based is outlined. Communication is identified as the single biggest barrier to health care in the...