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Noisy zones of proximal development: Conversation in noisy classrooms
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
Despite the importance of context in studies of language use, sociolinguists have ignored the impact of noise on conversational interaction. This inattention is of particular concern in classrooms where language is a ...
Collaborative translation of Wikipedia: with whom do trainee translators collaborate and for what purpose?
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This study aims to establish a model of collaboration that illustrates the various channels of collaboration that (trainee) translators go through in the course of translation, who they collaborate with, and why they choose ...
Expect amazing! Branding Qatar as a sports tourism destination
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This article focuses on the ways in which, after its successful bid to host the ‘mega event’ of World Cup 2022, Qatar is branded as a sports tourism destination in the online semioscape and linguascape of sports events. ...
Imageability, familiarity, and age of acquisition ratings for Arabic abstract nouns, abstract verbs and adjectives
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
, 2018 , Article)
To date, normative psycholinguistics research has mainly focused on establishing norms for producing databases for concrete words using standardized pictures, while abstract words have been subject to much less attention. ...
Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
Located at the crossroads of fact and fiction and relying on memory, autobiography defies easy categorization. This paper examines June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000). Jordan situates herself vis-à-vis her ...
Using Texts Which Address Local Issues to Create a Discursive Space within an Undergraduate Writing Course
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This study explores whether collaboratively writing about local issues would enable learners to deepen their understanding of their relationship with their own social context. A discursive space within an English for ...
Laryngeal Contrast in Qatari Arabic: Effect of Speaking Rate on Voice Onset Time
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S. Karger AG
, 2019 , Article)
Beckman and colleagues claimed in 2011 that Swedish has an overspecified phonological contrast between prevoiced and voiceless aspirated stops. Yet, Swedish is the only language for which this pattern has been reported. ...
Language policies in education in Qatar between 2003 and 2012: from local to global then back to local
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Springer Netherlands
, 2019 , Article)
The State of Qatar, in cooperation with the RAND Corporation, launched in 2002 an ambitious educational reform and development plan, Education for a New Era, which included, among other things, the instating of English as ...
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 ...
Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Abstract This is a sociocultural linguistic study on the ways whereby mobility is reflected upon in life narratives. An ethnographically informed sociolinguistic scale analysis shows that when residents narrate their life ...