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Ondrej Klabal – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2024
This paper is based within the framework of step-by-step approach to teaching legal translation. The underlying philosophy behind this approach is that when specific aspects of legal translations are tackled in isolation and trainees become aware of the pitfalls involved and the possible solutions, this helps them in further training as well as in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Syntax, Second Languages
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Pupipat, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examined written/formal register based on happilyever-after women's fiction conventional blurbs. In particular, the 80 blurbs were equally divided into two types: the classic and mass-marketed. Biber et al. (2021) was used as the framework to extract features to respond to the two research questions: What were the top written/formal…
Descriptors: Females, Novels, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure
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Affef Ghai; Sharif Alghazo – Open Education Studies, 2024
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Arabic, English
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Dunworth, Katie; Grimshaw, Trevor; Iwaniec, Janina; McKinley, Jim – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Within the currently diverse UK higher education environment, one important aspect of learning is the development of intercultural competence. The study that informs this paper investigated the ways intercultural competence was perceived as being enhanced or inhibited through current language and educational practices at a university that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Techacharoenrungrueang, Suparak – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study aims to analyze positive remarks linguistically manifested through English intensifiers, i.e. very and so, and their collocates in café reviews. The appraisal framework primarily focuses on the feelings or attitudes of speakers or writers. It plays a part in providing communicative resources whereby speech functions are performed…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Computational Linguistics, Positive Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Moqimipour, Kourosh; Shahrokhi, Mohsen – International Education Studies, 2015
The present study aimed at analyzing writing errors caused by the interference of the Persian language, regarded as the first language (L1), in three writing genres, namely narration, description, and comparison/contrast by Iranian EFL students. 65 English paragraphs written by the participants, who were at the intermediate level based on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning