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Getting Them Speaking: Classroom Social Factors and Foreign Language Anxiety
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2016 , Article)
This study, which focuses on foreign language anxiety (FLA) experienced by Japanese learners of English in four universities, explores causative agents by looking into the classroom. The research questions aim to explore ...
Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article)
Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ...
Football in the hands of the other: Qatar's World Cup in the British broadsheet press
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article)
Using reportage of the 2022 World Cup taken from The Telegraph and The Guardian, this paper demonstrates how Bhaba's 'dynamics of writing and textuality' are implemented to represent an Orientalist discourse that describes ...
Distinct neuropsychological correlates in positive and negative formal thought disorder syndromes: The thought and language disorder scale in endogenous psychoses
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S. Karger AG
, 2016 , Article Review)
The correlation of formal thought disorder (FTD) symptoms and subsyndromes with neuropsychological dimensions is as yet unclear. Evidence for a dysexecutive syndrome and semantic access impairments has been discussed in ...
Evidence for gesture-speech mismatch detection impairments in schizophrenia
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Patients with schizophrenia suffer from impairments in the perception and production of gestures. The extent to which patients can access the semantic association between speech and co-verbal gestures in concrete or ...
Lexical retrieval after Arabic aphasia: Syntactic access and predictors of spoken naming
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Research into anomia has been carried out in English and many Indo-European languages extensively, but not in Arabic. Previous studies have investigated predictors of successful lexical retrieval after anomia, and access ...
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper deals with the discursive constructions of transformative, agentive and creative ethnolinguistic self-conceptualizations and positionings of some select members of the approximately 3000-member Greek diasporic ...
The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure's ...
Processing passive constructions in arabic and english a crosslanguage priming study
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Georgetown University Press
, 2019 , Article)
The English and Arabic languages each have passive constructions, but their realizations in the two languages are quite different. We carried out a syntactic priming experiment on Arabic-English bilinguals to investigate ...
A brief self-rating scale for the assessment of individual differences in gesture perception and production
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Gesture production and perception have a strong impact on speech perception and social-communicative functioning. Consequently, we created the 'Brief Assessment of Gesture' (BAG) tool, a set of 12 subjective statements ...