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Pietro Luigi Invernizzi; Raffaele Scurati; Gabriele Signorini; Franco Mauro; Marta Rigon; Francesca D'Elia; Gaetano Raiola – Global Education Review, 2024
Nowadays, we face a profound fragmentation of knowledge, which is addressed in distinctive ways, conforming to the specifics of each field of knowledge and having a specific lexicon and ways to interpret reality. To better understand and communicate the complexity of the reality of motor and sports sciences in Italy, it is necessary to study its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Athletics, Vocabulary
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Yerbol Munai; Nurila Shaimerdinova – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Cingiz-namä, 'Book of Cingiz Khan' written by Ötämiš ?aji in the 16th century, has gained increasing attention among scholars in recent years. The manuscript, which is in Chagatay, a Turkic literary language of Central Asia, preserves oral traditions and the Kipchak linguistic features. The current study aims to collect and analyze the military…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Usage, Vocabulary, Books
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John I. Liontas – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Idiomatics--the scientific study of idiomatic language and figurative language--is a pervasive theme in global literature, yet its precise terminology often lacks clear definition. This article addresses this challenge directly by delving into the etymology, significance, and universality of idiomatics. It emphasizes the pivotal role of idiomatics…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Etymology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Researchers
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Kuralay Kuderinova; Anar Fazylzhanova; Yermukhamet Maralbek; Marzhan Serikqyzy; Samal Beisenkhan – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article compares the traditional and modern "speech production" patterns of the Kazakh language. By identifying the advantages of traditional speech structuring, the study proposes mechanisms for revitalizing modern Kazakh speech production, which is becoming increasingly simplified and distanced from its cognitive-aesthetic power…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkic Languages, Speech Communication, Oral Language
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Kemiksiz, Ömer – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
This study aims to identify foreign-origin words found in reading texts in secondary school Turkish textbooks. The study was conducted in a qualitative research design and the research object is Turkish textbooks prepared by the Ministry of National Education Publications for the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades of secondary school. A total of 95…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Young, Tim – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
In this opinion piece I reflect on an inspiring 2019 Advance HE STEM conference in Birmingham. In doing so I identify the term pedagogy as one aspect which ran contrary to the noble aspirations of the conference. I outline my own perspective as both an insider and outsider in my role of a Teacher-Practitioner. I use this vantage point to outline…
Descriptors: Higher Education, STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Jargon
Joyce Annette Maxwell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As a historically racialized utterance, "nigger" has been a contested and despised word since the late 17th Century. Now, in the 21st Century, "nigga" is still considered one of the most impactful words in the English lexicon. This dissertation provides one situated and contingent analysis of nigga as a moment of excess in the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Higher Education, Speech Acts, Language Patterns
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McNamara, Anna – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
This paper examines definitions of the lived experience through a literature review that focusses the lens on both Vygotsky's and Stanislavski's considerations of the lived experience, or in the original Russian perezhivanie. This literature review seeks to establish both the distinction between the use of the term by the practitioners in the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Philosophy, Learning Theories, Language Usage
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Hickling, Matt – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
This article draws attention to the keyword "New Historicism" through its evolution from its antecedent "Historicism." Using the OED definition of both as a starting point, this article explains the development of New Historicism as an interpretive strategy in the study of history and literature. In keeping with the…
Descriptors: Historiography, Definitions, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
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Wright, Laura – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This paper is about identifying a nuance of social meaning which, I demonstrate, was conveyed in the Early and Late Modern period by the suffix "-oon." The history of non-native suffix "-oon" is presented by means of assembling non-native suffix "-oon" vocabulary in date order and sorting according to etymology. It…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, English, Suffixes, Etymology
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Morina, Shyhrete – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The purpose of thie paper is to present the use of some onomastics forms in the work "Juvenilia" by Ndre Mjeda. Thus, this paper aims to reflect the anthroponyms, toponyms, hydronyms, and ethnonyms used in Mjeda's work. In this way, the findings and uses that emerge the to Mjeda, will be discussed, and the number of their uses will be…
Descriptors: Authors, Etymology, Language Usage, Contrastive Linguistics
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Kus, Miranda – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
This essay describes the development of the word numeracy as it evolved from its initial use in 1959 to its current meaning today. Initially appearing in a British report to address mathematics education of teenage boys and girls, it was first used in relation to the word literate and defined as the ability with or knowledge of numbers. By the…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Definitions, Etymology, Language Usage
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Kazuhito Uni – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Arabic is one of the largest donor languages to Malay and Persian. This study explores the benefits of Arabic vocabulary in teaching Malay words of Arabic origin to Persian-speaking students using a vocabulary survey containing 40 Malay words of Arabic origin, most of which retain phonetic or semantic similarity in Persian. Participants were 20…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Indo European Languages, Arabic, Second Language Learning
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Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu; Tsang, Samuel C. S. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper proposes a tripartite model describing the lexical categories across different registers and levels of formality in the Cantonese language in contemporary Hong Kong: (1) native Cantonese words; (2) Sino-Cantonese words, and (3) Anglo-Cantonese words. Examples of authentic Cantonese use were used to illustrate the histories and etymology…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology
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Fitzmaurice, Katherine – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
This essay looks at how the definition and use of the word propaganda has evolved throughout history. In particular, it examines how propaganda and education are intrinsically linked, and the implications of such a relationship. Propaganda's role in education is problematic as on the surface, it appears to serve as a warning against the dangers of…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Definitions, Language Usage, Etymology
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