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(2018-07-12)The demand for English instruction surpasses the availability of trained professionals and affordable programs as increasing numbers of immigrants and other international visitors to the U.S. seek out opportunities to ...
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(2018-07-05)My dissertation considers the role of discourse in transnational migrants’ construction of moral and national identities for themselves, focusing on the case of women from Uzbekistan living in the United States. While ...
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Exploring the emergence of an incipient English Pidgin in Kuwait: A continuum of bilingual behaviour (2018-07-02)This paper addresses the situation of increasing linguistic hybridity in the Arab Gulf state of Kuwait. With an Arabic-speaking country hosting to an influx of migrant workers since the 1960’s, a foundation for language ...
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(2018-07-16)Until now the authenticity of materials used in Language Learning, and the context in which they are used, had been debated in a favorable light (Chomsky, 1965). Using current Virtual-Reality (VR) technology in the classroom ...
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(2018-07-02)It is well documented that grammatical gender poses a pervasive problem for adult second language learners. Whereas native speakers can use prenominal grammatical gender marking to anticipate upcoming nouns in sentences, ...
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