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Sie or du? Developing Sociopragmatic Capacity in German through Concept-Based Pragmatics Instruction
The present study set out to investigate the extent of the development of sociopragmatic capacity at two different instructional levels of New Zealand university learners, as evident in learners’ understanding of German ...
Relativization in Korean: Formal Restrictions and Functional Solutions
This study is about how Korean deals with restrictions in relative clause (RC) formation by using constructions that are functionally similar to an RC.
Korean is regarded as a language that uses the pronoun-retention ...
Patterns of phrasal constituent order and adjacency in Old English prose: a performance-based analysis
The principle of end-weight has frequently been applied to the word order patterns of Old English (e.g. Colman, 1991; Kohonen, 1978; Reszkiewicz, 1966, 1971; Strang, 1970). Although there are strong indications that heavier ...
Investigating and Enhancing Willingness to Communicate and Motivational Self-System of Yemeni Rural EFL Learners
A major problem in second language (L2) learning and teaching is learners’ low willingness to communicate (WTC). WTC refers to the extent to which an individual is ready to initiate communication with others. Some L2 ...
Research article introductions in Chinese and English: A comparative genre-based study
This study investigates the rhetorical organisation of the introduction section of English and Chinese research articles in the field of educational psychology using Swales’s (1990 & 2004) framework of move analysis. A ...
'Neither here nor there, and therefore home': A Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry
This thesis proposes a reading of the migration impulse in contemporary Irish poetry, arguing for a distinctive nexus of memory and an ethic of reinvention. It sets out how contemporary poets reinvent inherited tropes of ...
The influence of cognitive styles on the interaction with a language instruction CD-ROM : a case study of Malaysian ESL learners
Computer technology has been introduced into the field of language education for more than three decades. However, how individual learners interact with language learning multimedia programmes in different ways is not yet ...
Samuel Beckett and the Emergence of the Nominalist Ethic
In this thesis, I argue that Samuel Beckett’s 1932 encounter with late-medieval Nominalism in Wilhelm Windelband’s History of Philosophy (1901) was a decisive factor in the emergence of his mature aesthetic. Beckett’s early ...
Mediation and Reciprocity: ESL Learner Writing Development through Error Correction
The provision of corrective feedback (CF) on errors in essay writing is a controversial topic. In second language acquisition (SLA), the controversy focuses whether CF contributes to the development of language systems, ...
The Reception of Sean O'Casey's Early Works in New Zealand (1924–47): A Social, Cultural, and Political Reading of the Archive
This thesis recovers the New Zealand reception history of Sean O’Casey, the Irish working-class playwright who rose to prominence at the Dublin Abbey Theatre in the aftermath of the Irish revolutionary period. Until now, ...