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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. ...
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 ...
Equality and erasure: Responses to subject negation in the art of Jill Magid
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Springer International Publishing
, 2017 , Book chapter)
This chapter engages with contemporary surveillance as it is conceived of in art and literature, responding to the contemporary media culture of ubiquitous watching. Artistic discourse and its concern with this facet of ...
Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries became extremely attractive to workers from other Arab countries and beyond. Initially, Arabs were a majority in ...
Philistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II
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Springer Netherlands
, 2016 , Article)
This paper reviews and assesses past scholarship on the so-called vasa mortis riddle of the Old English poem Solomon and Saturn II (lines 75-103) before proposing its own solution. It examines the trajectory of the scholarly ...
Teacher education and the development of teacher identity
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter reports on a study of teachers' professional identity development, which took place in a Sudanese English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program. The socio-political and economic discourses are ...
Mediation effect of L2 English in acquisition of front rounded vowels in L3 Turkish by L1 Arabic learners
(2018 , Conference Proceedings)
В статье рассматривается модель усвоения фонетических категорий в третьем
языке. Результаты эксперимента показывают, что второй язык может оказывать
большее влияние на процесс усвоения фонетических категорий, чем родной язык
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 ...