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Roth, Dawn. "The European Language Portfolio : An assessment in Mother Tongue Teaching." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-17352.

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The present study focuses on teacher’s attitudes to the European Language Portfolio (ELP) in mother tongue English programs. More specifically it will explore how effective the ELP and portfolio assessment are in mother tongue teaching inSweden. The aim is also to assess whether mother tongue English students perform equally well in the four language skill areas. This case study seeks to find the strengths and weaknesses of the ELP according to the teachers that are using the ELP as an assessment tool, as well as investigating previous evaluation materials used to identify achievement in mothe
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Maxson, Brian. "The Many Shades of Praise: Politics and Panegyrics in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Diplomacy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6187.

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Fifteenth-century diplomatic protocol required the city of Florence to send diplomats to congratulate both new and militarily victorious rulers. Diplomats on such missions poured praise on their triumphant allies and new rulers at friendly locations. However, political realities also meant that these diplomats would sometimes have to praise rulers whose accession or victory opposed Florentine interests. Moreover, different allies and enemies required different levels of praise. Jealous rulers compared the gifts, status, and oratory that they received from Florence to the Florentine entoura
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Duxfield, Polly Louise. "Digitally editing manuscript prose in Castilian : the 'Crónica particular de San Fernando' : a case study." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2019. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8870/.

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This thesis accompanies the digital edition of the 'Crónica particular de San Fernando', and includes a rationale for and an explanation of many of the implications of the decisions taken in the preparation of this edition. The edition is used as a case study for the digital editing of medieval prose in Castilian at the present time. To this end, there is an in-depth examination of the history, context and current situation of the digital editing of medieval texts, focussing specifically on prose, and in particular prose in Castilian. The text and contact of the Crónica particular de San Fer
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Vera, López Hortensia Beatriz. "The scholarship of learning modern languages and cultures : integrating education, research and human development." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12879/.

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By taking learning as the axis of scholarship, personal and social epistemologies have a common ground: experience and reflective action. I am not considering learning as a vehicle whose success is measured to the extent that a portion of the external world is appropriated, but as a qualitatively different way to see, understand and handle experience. A scholarship of learning is tightly bound to the experiential roots of objects of study that keep on changing in individual and collective histories. Therefore, a scholarship of learning is not a set of context-free skills but a complex process
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Guilloteaux, Marie-Jose. "Motivating language learners : a classroom-orientated investigation of teachers' motivational practices and students' motivation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10271/.

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The teachers' use of motivational strategies is generally believed to enhance student motivation, yet there is scant empirical evidence to support this claim. This classroom-oriented investigation focused on how the motivational practices of EFL teachers in South Korea related to students' L2 motivation and motivated classroom behavior. In a first phase, the motivation of over 1,300 students was measured by a self-report questionnaire, and the use of motivational strategies by 27 teachers in 20 different schools was examined with a classroom observation instrument specifically developed for th
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Sproule, Kent Arthur. "Criteria for the effective translation of spoken discourse : the evidence from selected modern Spanish texts." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1805/.

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The objective of this thesis is the formulation of a set of guidelines, criteria, which will serve as a bench mark for those who wish to attempt the translation of non-oral spoken discourse. This will be achieved by the examination of three modern Spanish texts and their translated equivalents in English. The Introduction sets the study in context and attempts to study the notion of translation in a general context before moving on to a closer examination of the translation of spoken discourse, and the problems which this form of language engenders. Chapter 2 examines the novel El Jarama and i
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McManus, Kevin. "The development of aspect in a second language." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1292.

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This thesis investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of aspect. Aspect is considered to be a universal property of language (Chung and Timberlake, 1985; Comrie, 1976; Klein, 1994, 1995; Smith, 1991, 1997). Therefore, all natural languages are thought to be able to convey the same aspectual meanings. However, languages do not always convey these meanings in the same ways. For example, although French and English are able to convey viewpoint aspect by tense, they differ from each other in the particular aspectual meanings they map to individual tenses. In other words, English and French
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Smyth, Edmund Joseph. "The nouveau Roman and the aesthetics of modernity and postmodernity." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1993. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4834/.

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Garralda, Ortega Ángel. "The social construction of the Spanish nation : a discourse-based approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4989/.

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This thesis analyses Spanish nation-building from a social-constructionist perspective assuming that nations are historically evolving social constructs and that nationhood is a largely modern phenomenon with pre-modern antecedents. A theoretical model for studying nationhood is proposed based on a critique of nationalism theories, Giddens’s social structuration model (Giddens 1984) refined by Sewell (2005); modernisation theories and discourse analytical approaches. A discourse-oriented methodology is proposed: Spanish nation-building, conceptualised as semiotically-mediated social action sit
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Cori, Paola. "'Paragonarmi meco medesimo' : immagine e memoria in Leopardi." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/487/.

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The aim of this thesis is to show the importance of memory in Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti and Zibaldone, not only as a theme for his poems and a source of theoretical speculation, but as a modelling structure of his writing. Following the first chapter on Leopardi and the philosophy of memory from Locke to the first half of the nineteenth century, chapter II investigates the self-referential perspective implicit in the recurrence of certain images in the Canti, and its consequences for the structure of the book, both in the Piatti and the Starita editions. Chapter III, focusing on the concept of
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Orella, Diaz-Salazar Victoria. "El escritor y la ciudad en el nuevo fin de siglo Representación del espacio y autorrepresentación en la escritura autoficcional de Fernando Vallejo." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366841/.

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In this dissertation I explore how the representation of space and self is articulated in the autofictional writing of the Colombian author Fernando Vallejo (Medellín, 1942), focusing on four texts: Los días azules (1985), El fuego secreto (1987), La Virgen de los sicarios (1994) and El desbarrancadero (2001). I particularly examine what textual strategies are used to convey this articulation, and what perceptions of space and self, as well as what conceptions of the city and the intellectual, inform these texts. Drawing on theory and criticism on autobiography and autofiction, I propose to re
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Chuang, Chia-Hsiung. "An investigation of Taiwanese novice EFL writers' experiences of the construction of intercultural genre writing." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374718/.

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Based on a framework of linking intercultural rhetoric research to genre theories, the present study investigated Taiwanese EFL novice students’ construction of generic structures and rhetorical features in writing in L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English). Quantitative and qualitative research methods were combined in the present study, including textual analysis of students’ genre writing, a student questionnaire and interviews with students. The textual analysis focused on the construction of genre-rhetoric conventions in intercultural letters of job application and argumentative writing, respective
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Boegelein, Florence. "L'art de la cruauté : mythologies filmiques contemporaines de la cruauté." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2013179/.

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The French film critic Stéphane Delorme, in Les Cahiers du Cinéma, writes that “horror is the unexpected answer to the question: how to create myths nowadays?” (2008: 11). This quotation is the starting-point for this thesis which aims to discuss and analyse the implications of his statement that cinema is a vehicle for myths, and most specifically, for those associated with what he calls “horror”, which we have interpreted as “cruelty”. The implications of this change will be discussed in the thesis. The thesis will set out the implications of the concepts both of “cruelty” and of “myth” in a
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McQuillan, Elizabeth Carmel. "The reception and creation of post-1960 Franco-Belgian BD." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8926/.

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This thesis investigates the reception and creation of post-1960 Franco-Belgian bande dessinée, through an examination of the key BD journals of the period, namely, Pilote (1959-1989), L'Echo des savanes (1972-present) and (A Suivre) (1978-1997). The BDs considered as representative of these magazines are not only contextualised socio-historically as cultural artefacts of the period, but are also analysed as texts. This thesis also considers the historical processes of the institutionalisation and intellectualisation of the BD in France and Belgium in a bid to understand the current cultural s
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Moya, Mario Raul Angel. "Using language learning strategies to develop ab-initio PGCE students' skills in primary modern languages." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/320282.

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The announcements concerning the introduction of modern languages in Key Stage Two in England (https://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/ curriculum/national curriculum2014, [accessed 8 March 2013]), although not a new initiative, have renewed the need to train generalist primary teachers in teaching modern languages. Following an initial announcement of the introduction of the English Baccalaureate, the poor outcomes achieved by England in the European languages survey (COE, 2012) and the news that modern languages would be part of the primary curriculum (http://www.bbc.co.uk/n
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Clark, Sally R. "Molière's language : perspectives and approaches." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30914/.

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In spite of over three hundred years of commentary on Molière's plays, one area of research has been neglected by scholars, namely the role of language in the creation of comedy. Of those critics who have analysed Moliere's use of language, the majority have limited their focus to a small number of plays and do not consider what makes his discourse comic. Even more surprising is the fact that virtually no Moliériste has attempted to view Molière's language from the perspective of modern literary and linguistic theory. Consequently, the aim of this thesis is to explore the extent to which co
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Lay, Rachel E. "Linguistic Landscape of Main Streets in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/302.

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After the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina erupted into ethnic conflict and ultimately genocide. Nearly 100,000 people, mainly Bosniaks, died in the Bosnian War. Two decades later, the violence has ended but the conflict is still present in Bosnia; the societal segregation of the 1995 Dayton Accords, intended only as an immediate solution to the violence, still stands. Population and language distribution are evidence of this segregation. Bosnia’s two entities are home to two different ethnic majorities: Serbs in the Republika Srpska and Bosniaks in the Federation of BiH.
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Middleton, Tim. "The operation of discourse as a motive for critical practice : a Bakhtinian perspective." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59484/.

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This thesis offers a Bakhtinian perspective on the operation of discourse in critical practice. Bakhtin's account of the individual's relation to language provides the basis for an examination of the ways in which discourse operates as a constraint upon and motive for acts of interpretation. In this my thesis breaks with the dominant use of Bakhtinian theory in which it is deployed as a means of analysing the operation of discourse in literary texts. In what follows I begin with an account of Bakhtin's sociolinguistics. Having established the theoretical framework for my analysis I move on to
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Burgstaller, Georg. "Kritikerdämmerung : Heinrich Schenker and music journalism." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/378160/.

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Despite the steady amount of research that has gone into the life and mind of Viennese music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) in recent decades, certain facets of his thinking continue to puzzle scholars. These include the question of how a thinker nowadays highly regarded for his considerable powers of insight into the music of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven came to hold views that were bigoted, odious, and militantly German-nationalist. This thesis confronts the issue by recapturing Schenker’s hitherto uncharted engagement with one of the phenomena of modern life that he vocally rejected:
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Sanderson, Stewart. "Our own language : Scots verse translation and the second-generation Scottish renaissance." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7541/.

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This thesis examines the role of Scots language verse translation in the second-generation or post-war Scottish Renaissance. The translation of European poetry into Scots was of central importance to the first-generation Scottish Renaissance of the nineteen twenties and thirties. As Margery Palmer McCulloch has shown, the wider cultural climate of Anglo-American modernism was key to MacDiarmid’s conception of the interwar Scottish Renaissance. What was the effect on second-generation poet-translators as the modernist moment passed? Are the many translations undertaken by the younger poets who
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Camilleri, Maris. "Temporal and aspectual auxiliaries in Maltese." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17171/.

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This study aims to better understand the realisation of grammatical tense and aspect in Maltese. We first consider the different temporal and aspectual interpretations related with the verbal and participial morphology. The main focus will then be the identification of different sorts of auxiliaries that contribute to the realisation of the morphosemantic tense and aspect features as they combine with one another and with lexical verbs and participles in periphrastic structures. The bleached semantics displayed by the forms to be discussed will be taken to be our primary identifier of an auxil
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Harrison, Michelle. "Managing France's regional languages : language policy in bilingual primary education in Alsace." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/11315/.

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The introduction of regional language bilingual education in France dates back to the late 1960s in the private education system and to the 1980s in the public system. Before this time the extensive use of regional languages was forbidden in French schools, which served as ‘local centres for the gallicisation of France’ (Blackwood 2008, 28). France began to pursue a French-only language policy from the time of the 1789 Revolution, with Jacobin ideology proposing that to be French, one must speak French. Thus began the shaping of France into a nation-state. As the result of the official languag
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Grenfell, Michael. "The initial training of modern language teachers : a social theoretical approach." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/365533/.

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Woodgate-Jones, Alexandra. "Primary teachers in times of change : engaging with the primary Modern Foreign Language Initiative in England." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/378157/.

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DeWald, Rebecca Maria. "Possible worlds : textual equality in Jorge Luis Borges's (pseudo-)translations of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7183/.

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This thesis re-evaluates the relationship between original text and translation through an approach that assumes the equality of source and target texts. This is based on the translation strategy expressed in the work of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and theoretical approaches by Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, as well as exponents of Possible World Theory. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this thesis focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena ‘translation’ and ‘original’ and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue betw
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Rideout, Judith. "Women's writing networks in Spanish magazines around 1900." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7859/.

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As an output of the HERA Travelling Texts project, created with the aim of uncovering the realities of women’s literary culture on the fringes of Europe during the long nineteenth century, this study was conceptualised to find out more about the networks of women writers in Spain around 1900, using the digitised corpuses of contemporaneous periodicals as the primary source material. Each chapter of the study centres on a particular periodical, which is used as the starting point for the community of writers and readers, both real and imagined. This thesis looks at the realities of the literary
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Grassi, Silvia. "The construction of gender roles and sexual dissidence on TV : using Anglo-Saxon paradigms to re-read Catalan and Spanish texts." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/58125/.

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Taking as a starting point an interpretation of the television medium as an Ideological State Apparatus, in my thesis I examine how gender roles and sexual dissidence are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. I focus on a corpus of narrative materials through a perspective informed by theories elaborated by Anglo-Saxon scholars in gender studies and studies of sexual dissidence. In my first chapter, which focuses on the construction of gender roles in Catalan soap operas, I apply the analytical paradigms that Anglo-Saxon feminist scholars have elaborated for the content of soap
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Dragojlov, Aleksandra. "Serbian compliance patterns towards EU integration under the Progressive Party : an exercise in statecraft." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/115510/.

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The overarching focus of this thesis is Serbian government strategies under the Serbian Progressive Party towards European integration based on a rationalist approach to Europe. Current research on Serbia assumes the rationalist approach whereby Serbian elites’ strategies towards EU integration are driven by the logic of consequences, in the calculation of benefits and losses resulting from EU membership. This study will take the analysis further by examining Serbian government strategies towards EU accession through the prism of rationalism as well as statecraft where the desire for power has
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Borresly, Dhyiaa. "Natural translators and trainee translators in the context of societal bilingualism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/102314/.

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This doctoral thesis is an investigation into the process of translation performed by “natural” translators in comparison to MA Translation Studies students, hereon after will be termed trainee translators. “natural” translators were defined following Harris and Sherwood understanding of “natural” translation as: “the translation done in everyday circumstances by people who have had no special training for it” (1978: 155). The research examines bilinguality and diglossia in the context of Kuwait and how these two factors influence the translation process. The research examines the participants
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Metodiev, Metodi. "The writers, the conflicts and power in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7858/.

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My research answers the need for a comparative approach in the research of the history of Eastern Europe. In this respect I will compare the relationship between the writers and the power wielders in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia during the first twenty years of communist power in the two countries (1948-1968). My main idea is firstly to trace the influence of the international context on the domestic scene in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, and then to show how writers in the two countries answered the challenges posed by their political context. In terms of the international context, I will outli
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Muirden, Mark. "A critical evaluation of linguistic minorities from a postmodern perspective : the case of Welsh." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/361349/.

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My aim in this thesis is to consider language policy and minority languages from the viewpoint of postmodernism – a theoretical framework that has much to offer beyond mere explanation and support for the concepts of diversity and pluralism. I argue there is a shortage of texts that interrogate language policy from a postmodern perspective – notwithstanding the contributions of a relatively small group of linguists including Pennycook (2000, 2006), Wright (2000, 2004), Cameron (1995) and Edwards (1985-2003). Thus, I combine some arguments from the domain of postmodernism articulated by theoris
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Porter, Alison. "An early start to French literacy : learning the spoken and written word simultaneously in English primary schools." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374731/.

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The Primary MFL curriculum (DfE, 2013: 1-3) calls for the development of reading and writing in a foreign language in primary schools. Specific attainment targets refer to “accurate reading aloud for understanding” and the ability to “describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing” (DfE, 2013: 2). Research, however, has shown both the teaching and learning of MFL literacy to be most problematic. Observation-derived evidence noted that writing was the “least developed skill” in primary MFL provision (Ofsted, 2011: 10, 25) and that written work tended to provide consolidation
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Bilgin, Sezen S. "Code switching in ELT teaching practice in Turkey : teacher practices, beliefs and identity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/67873/.

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Code switching involves the interplay of two languages and as well as serving linguistic functions, it has social and psychological implications. In the context of English language teaching, these psychological implications reveal themselves as teachers’ thought processes. While the nature of code switching in language classrooms has been widely studies, as yet little if any attention has been paid to the relationship between such switching and the beliefs of the teachers involved. This study is designed to respond this gap in current research. In the study, I worked with five student teachers
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Wong, Chin Han. "An analysis of factors predicting graduation of students at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FWong.pdf.

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Liebschner, Andrea. "Russian social networks on the Web : cohesion and coherence in Vkontakte." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7674/.

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In this thesis connections between messages on the public wall of the Russian social network Vkontakte are analysed and classified. A total of 1818 messages from three different Vkontakte groups were collected and analysed according to a new framework based on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) research into cohesion and Simmons’s (1981) adaptation of their classification for Russian. The two categories of textuality, cohesion and coherence, describe the linguistic connections between messages. The main aim was to find out how far the traditional categories of cohesion are applicable to an online soc
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Maarafi, Hayat Abdullah. "Motivation in foreign language learning in the department of English and Modern European Languages at the University of Qatar." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398548.

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Jardim, Carolina Reolon. "Investigating the lexicographical needs of Brazilian learners of English : a user study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/31005/.

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Dictionaries can be effective learning tools, capable of promoting learning autonomy to fill the gap left by an inefficient education for instance. The functional quality of these works is, however, tied to a good understanding of the profile of their intended users. In the field of lexicography, this understanding can be achieved by means of user-studies. Currently, most EFL dictionaries target a very generic profile - English learners - and neglect the fact that learners from different cultures and linguistic backgrounds may have different needs and preferences. This thesis presents and disc
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Szilágyi, Anikó. "Gabriel the Victorious and Hungarian fiction in contemporary English translation." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30644/.

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This thesis employs multiple methodologies in order to explore Hungarian fiction in contemporary English translation as a distinct body of literature. It comprises three interrelated contributions: a bibliography, three case studies, and a translation. A bibliography of English translations of Hungarian novels published between 2000 and 2016 is presented in Appendix A, and Chapter 1 contains an overview of contemporary Hungarian-to-English fiction translation based on the bibliographic data, including a description of the assembly process. Chapters 2-4 focus more closely on a selection of thes
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Csonka, Veronika. "Compounding, preposed adjectives and intensifiers in Scottish Gaelic." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8220/.

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This thesis deals with the topic of compounding in Scottish Gaelic, in particular the relationship between marked adjective + noun compounds (e.g. deagh oidhche ‘good night’) and their unmarked noun + adjective alternatives (e.g. oidhche mhath, literally ‘night good’). The first part of the thesis surveys the relevant linguistic literature on compounding, with a specific focus on compounding in Celtic languages, and the research question for the investigation is specified as follows: in which circumstances do Gaelic speakers use the marked adjective + noun constructions in contrast to the umar
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Baillie, Eva Marta. "Facing the fiend. An interdisciplinary reading of Satan as a literary character." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3231/.

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This thesis argues that Satan is essentially a literary figure and that he is best understood in the context of narrative. This study furthermore establishes what the literary figure of Satan can contribute to the understanding of evil and how his portrayal has changed as we move into the 21st century. I suggest that the interdisciplinary reading of theology and literature offers the best approach to the character of Satan. The focus of the study lies on novels from the last 100 years, focusing on the implications of the historic, philosophical and theological changes in the late modern landsc
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Silvester, Hannah. "Translating banlieue film : an integrated analysis of subtitled non-standard language." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30976/.

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This thesis examines the subtitling of films depicting the French banlieue into English. The banlieues are housing estates situated on the outskirts of large towns and cities, and are primarily home to the underprivileged, and immigrants to France or their descendants. The sociolect spoken in the banlieue differs from standard French in terms of grammar, lexicon and pronunciation. Three films released between 2000 and the present day are studied; La squale (Genestal, 2000), L'esquive (Kechiche, 2003) and Divines (Benyamina, 2016). A new integrated methodology is developed, which examines the f
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Carlini, Versini Dominique. "Le Corps-frontière : figures de l'excès dans les fictions de Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Laurence Nobécourt et Marina de Van." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/69465/.

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De, Lima Kalina. "Continuing professional development and reflective practice for English teachers in the municipal schools in Northeast Brazil." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366431/.

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This thesis presents the rationale, design and outcomes of an action research study carried out in Northeast Brazil on the continuing professional development (CPD) of teachers of English as a second language (ESL). Municipal ESL teachers in Northeast Brazil are faced with problems such as the scarcity or lack of resources; lack of opportunities for CPD courses; lack of attention to English on the part of the government; and classes which are too large. In my action research a CPD course was designed and delivered to 20 in-service municipal ESL teachers. The course has had the purpose of provi
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Aniballi, Francesca. "Towards an anthropology of literature : the magic of hybrid fictions." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4306/.

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Anthropology and literary criticism can interact fruitfully in the investigation of theoretical, general and specific issues concerning literature. Anthropological concepts of magic and ritual are useful to account for those fictions which defy neat labels and sit at the crossroad between the fantastic and the mimetic impulses. Furthermore, the reading process of such fictions can be interpreted as a liminal experience, whereby the reader’s consciousness is ritualized. Adopting a phenomenological stance and a socio-anthropological methodology, the thesis presents the author’s auto-ethnography
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Evans, David Arthur. "Does the construction of identity subject positions by male pupils in secondary school hinder their performance in modern foreign languages (MFL) by comparison with girls?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2891/.

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Nearing the end of my career as a secondary school Modern Languages (French/Spanish) teacher, I wanted to reflect on some of the problems I had encountered. The most obvious, I felt, was that male secondary school students persistently seemed to perform less well in this subject area than female students. This led me to investigate the social construction of gender, learner identity and the ideologies surrounding MFL. I did this by investigating the role of language and discourse in the construction of culture, identities and ideologies. The research paradigm is interpretivist and the design i
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Jendrissek, Dan. "Narratives of economic migration : the case of young, well-qualified Poles and Spaniards in the UK." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366444/.

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This thesis investigates the dynamics, motivations and external factors influencing the migration trajectories of 22 young, well-qualified Polish and Spanish migrants in the South of England. The study is among the first ones researching the current movement of people from Spain to the UK in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007/08, and comparing it to post-EU-accession migration from Eastern Europe. The methodology involves semi-structured, autobiographical interviews focusing on participants’ migration experiences, with a particular focus on their professional ambitions in the
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Liu, Esther Ruth. "The missionary translator : expanding notions of translation through the colonial mission practices of the SMEP Basutoland and Barotseland missions (1857-1904)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/99638/.

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In this thesis the figure of the colonial Christian missionary is put forward as a translator - in terms of both interlingual translation (translation proper) and a more metaphorical and intercultural translation process (mission-translation). It takes the example of SMEP (Société des Missions Évangéliques de Paris) missionary, François Coillard (1834-1904), his wife, Christina, and indigenous missionaries such as Asser Sehahabane and Aaron Mayoro, and posits these historical individuals and their translation practices as sources which shed new light on current understandings of the nature of
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Reginold, Remo. "Sotto voce : translating the phenomenon…" Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/70646/.

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This thesis wrestles with the normativity of language, its usage and its practices while questioning the signifié-signifiant reality. A structural reading of language designs its translational practices within the source-target framework, thereby essentialising its relationship en passant: everything has meaning as long as we accept the hidden framework of a universal language. Therefore, language outlined as a system of signs is a product of transcendental considerations and consequently it renders practice into a hermeticrealm in which the distinction between eidos and eidolon, right and wro
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Sievers, Wiebke. "Otherness in translation : contemporary German prose in Britain and France." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71208/.

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Drawing on contemporary approaches to otherness, this thesis aims to show that, despite the growing interest in so-called foreignizing translation strategies, the current theory and practice of translation in Western Europe is to a large extent still caught in nationalist self-confirmation. In the first part of my study I expose the nationalist agenda underlying the influential theories of translation developed by Antoine Berman and Lawrence Venuti by contrasting them with the ideas formulated by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. Basing their arguments on Friedrich Schleiermacher's essay on
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Stanev, Mariane. "On Record: Soundscapes as Metaphor and Physical Manifestation of Memory in Early Holocaust Novels and Contemporary Criticism." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1907.

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This thesis compares two perspectives on the production of Holocaust memory: a novel that leads up to The Holocaust in Britain and one that reflects the hindsight perspective of a liberator in the Soviet Union. The novels are Virginia Woolf’s BETWEEN THE ACTS and Vasily Grossman’s LIFE AND FATE. The analysis offers a locus of analysis for the diasporic literary energy created by the catastrophe in the 20th and 21st centuries. The project offers a theorized standpoint on the role of literature on official historical archives. Proposing a method through which contemporary readers can engage the
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