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Gui-yan, Wu; Hui-jia, Shen; Yu-tian, Mao; Zi-ji, Yuan; You-zhu, Feng – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Red Culture is one of the symbols of Chinese national spirit in China. With the enhancement of China's international status, the world gets to know the Red Culture stage by stage. And yet, in the process of Red Culture's foreign publicity, the depth and breadth of cultural diffusion have been affected by different factors. This paper objectively…
Descriptors: Translation, Intercultural Communication, Tourism, Cultural Traits
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Kim, Hyunwoo; Rah, Yangon; Hwang, Haerim – English Teaching, 2020
Usage-based approaches to language acquisition explain language development as a gradual process of generalizing constructions through language experience. This study investigated second language learners' development of constructional knowledge from the perspective of usage-based language development. A total of 169 Korean EFL students at five…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jarrah, Marwan; Zibin, Aseel – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The current research argues that definiteness in Arabic can be used for formal purposes. The definite article and the nunnation suffix "-n" (NnnS) manage the information flow in the sentence through maintaining accepted informativity balance. Additionally, the study assumes that NnnS, "-n," is not an indefinite article. Its…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Translation, Sentence Structure
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Ghasemi, Hadis; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
Both lack of time and the need to translate texts for numerous reasons brought about an increase in studying machine translation with a history spanning over 65 years. During the last decades, Google Translate, as a statistical machine translation (SMT), was in the center of attention for supporting 90 languages. Although there are many studies on…
Descriptors: Translation, Indo European Languages, Second Languages, English
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Essam, Bacem A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study investigates the use of anadiplosis in both English and Arabic. It focuses primarily on outlining and defining the so-called "reduced" anadiplosis in some Quranic verses. The study investigates, too, the most popular English translations of them, highlighting the mismatches between the original holy text and its translations.…
Descriptors: Translation, Islam, Discourse Analysis, English
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Chang, Xin; Wang, Pei – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
To investigate the influence of L2 proficiency and syntactic similarity on English passive sentence processing, the present ERP study asked 40 late Chinese-English bilinguals (27 females and 13 males, mean age = 23.88) with high or intermediate L2 proficiency to read the sentences carefully and to indicate for each sentence whether or not it was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Accuracy, Reaction Time
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Al-Mahrooqi, Rahma; Al-Aghbari, Khalsa – SAGE Open, 2016
The main objective of this study was to investigate the refusal speech act among Omani EFL college students. It examined how they refused in various situations and whether their responses were appropriate in terms of culture and accurate in terms of language. Forty-one English as foreign language (EFL) learners completed a Discourse Completion…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mogahed, Mogahed M. – Online Submission, 2012
This article deals with the issue of using punctuation marks correctly. The misuse of punctuation marks affects meaning; therefore, it affects translation. As a result, the writer should pay more attention to punctuation marks and not to use them randomly. Simultaneously, the reader has to take care of the punctuation marks when interpreting a…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Role, Selection, Translation
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Lijewska, Agnieszka; Chmiel, Agnieszka – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Conference interpreters form a special case of language users because the simultaneous interpretation practice requires very specific lexical processing. Word comprehension and production in respective languages is performed under strict time constraints and requires constant activation of the involved languages. The present experiment aimed at…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Processing, Second Languages, Translation
Friederich, Wolf – Russisch, 1974
Parts 1-3 appeared in "Russisch," v7 n2-4 1973. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, German, Grammar, Language Styles
Schogt, Henry – Linguistique, 1974
This article examines problems in translation on the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and morphology. The use of the subjunctive is discusses as a specific problem area. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deep Structure, Lexicology, Morphology (Languages)
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Weis, Erich, Comp. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1973
Part of a continuing series. (DD)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Grammar, Nouns
Spilka, Irene V. – Meta, 1979
Reviews the grammatical, semantic, and stylistic difficulties in translating English passive constructions into French. (AM)
Descriptors: English, French, Grammar, Language Styles
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Brewer, William Benjamin – Hispania, 1987
Discusses the subtle changes of meaning evoked by different sentence positions of "hace"-clauses. Analyzes the semantics of "hace" + TIME sentences which are the equivalent of English "ago." A presentation suitable for the beginning learner, using "since" + TIME as the English translation of the "hace"-clause followed by "que" is suggested.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Instructional Innovation, Phonology, Second Language Instruction
Aparicio Laurencio, Angel – Yelmo, 1978
This article analyzes the Spanish version of the motorists' guide from the Department of Motor Vehicles of the state of California. There are many poor translations due to direct translation from the English. (NCR)
Descriptors: Government Publications, Grammar, Language Styles, Language Usage
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