Dissertations / Theses: 'Greek language – Influence on English –'

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Mayhugh, Paul W. "A Chinese-English intermediate Greek grammar." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Kazamia, Vassilia. "Language learning strategies of Greek adult learners of English." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406275.

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Slavin, James A. "The influence of Semitic languages on New Testament Greek." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Sklika, Elpida. "L’influence de l’anglais comme langue mondiale sur le grec moderne : une étude de trois genres de la presse numérique grecque." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAC003.

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Cette thèse porte sur l’influence de l’anglais comme langue mondiale sur la presse numérique grecque. C’est une étude qualitative d’un corpus de 126 textes de la presse grecque et d’un corpus complémentaire de 15 textes de la presse anglophone publiés en ligne entre 2011-2015. Les données sont tirées de trois genres, les articles d’actualité, les articles d’opinion et les interviews, et cinq thématiques : art et mode, économie et politique, monde et environnement, science et technologie et santé et sport. Le cadre théorique s’appuie sur l’emprunt linguistique et la rhétorique d’un texte numérique. Quant à l’influence de l’anglais, nous notons des traces au niveau du lexique, de la syntaxe, de la sémantique, du discours et de la titraille. Pour la mise en scène d’un texte numérique, nous notons divers modèles de lecture, ainsi que les différences entre la presse grecque et anglophone. Finalement, ces résultats soulignent une combinaison de l’implantation de l’anglais dans la presse grecque du haut vers le bas et du bas vers le haut
This thesis focuses on the influence of English as a global language on the Greek digital press. It is a qualitative study of a corpus of 126 texts from the Greek online press and a complementary corpus of 15 texts from the anglophone press published on the Internet between 2011-2015. The data are drawn from three journalistic genres: news articles, opinion articles and interviews, and 5 column-themes: art and fashion, economy and politics, world and environment, science and technology and health and sports. The theoretical framework is based on the linguistic borrowing and the rhetorical theory of a digital text. As for the influence of English, traces on the lexicon, syntax, semantics, discourse and headlines are mainly pointed out. Concerning the layout of a digital text, we found various reading models, as well as some differences between the Greek and anglophone press. Finally, these results underline a combination of the implantation of English borrowing on the Greek press from a top down and a bottom up point of view

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Gheralis-Roussos, Eleni. "The motivation of English language teachers in Greek secondary schools." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11245/.

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This thesis addresses a largely uncharted area within language motivation research, which is the motivation of teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). A qualitative research approach was employed to identify and document different motivational influences affecting EFL teacher motivation. The method of analysis employed in our dataset, which consisted of a series of in-depth qualitative interviews with Greek state EFL and non-EFL teachers, followed the principles of grounded theory. Most of the findings coincided with insights from other teacher motivation studies; namely that the intrinsic aspect of teaching was the most satisfying, and thus the most motivating, of all motivational factors, while the extrinsic aspect both within and outside the school context was one of the main contributors to teacher demotivation. However, the findings have also highlighted an area that had not been paid much attention to in the literature, the temporal dimension of teacher motivation, which plays an important role in the development and motivation of the teacher due to the fact that teaching as a profession is a lifelong engagement. The study has offered several insights into EFL teacher motivation and the results are hoped to facilitate the alleviation of the problem of teacher demotivation and dissatisfaction. The thesis concludes with implications for future work in this novel area of research.

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Ntelitheos, Dimitrios. "A constraint hierarchy approach to the different distribution of reflexives in English and Greek." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B2347290x.

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Rigas, Niki Elefteria. "An evaluation of English language lessons in Greek state secondary schools." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22584.

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This study is a classroom-based evaluation of the teaching of English as a foreign language in Greek state lower secondary schools. It investigates the apparent dissatisfaction that exists with regard to the quality of English language teaching in public schools. It focuses on 'macro' aspects of the social context, that is, the contextual variables that shape and affect the teaching process, and examines the 'micro' features of classroom interaction in order to capture an inside view of how teaching takes place, how the participants construct their classroom reality and how they react to it. The study has a comparative dimension in that data from German secondary schools is matched against the data obtained from the Greek context, to allow for an exploration of similarities and differences and to facilitate the evaluation process. Three kinds of data were collected and analysed: a) non-participant observation and audio-recording of 11 lessons, b) field notes, supplementary documentation on the ELT curriculum and teaching materials and c) 95 interviews of pupils and teachers whose lessons were observed. The lesson features that were analysed include: classroom climate and management strategies, role relationships, classroom activities, interaction patterns, the focus of verbal interaction, the use of the target language, teachers' questioning practices and pupil participation. The data analysis was chiefly qualitative. The research findings indicate that in the Greek state schools, the socio-emotional atmosphere, aspects of classroom management and role relationships work against the teaching-learning process. Also, the structure and contents of the lesson plans as well as the degree of exploitation of the target language appear to be inflexible and uninspiring. Moreover, it was found that the participants' attitudes towards the English lessons and their own evaluation of ELT in state secondary schools is generally negative.

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Parrilla, Larissa Karina. "Multimedia Technologies' Influence on Language Acquisition in English Language Learners." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2682.

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English as a Second Language (ESL) learners at the upper elementary level have struggled to demonstrate the vocabulary required to read in English at grade-level. Although multimedia technologies have demonstrated positive effects as language acquisition educational tools at the university level, it remains unclear how useful they are for language acquisition at the elementary level. This quasi-experimental study used dual coding theory as a framework to examine the relationship between the level of reading comprehension upper elementary students developed and their construction of word meanings through use of multimedia technologies. The study utilized convenience sampling of 85 students divided into treatment and control groups in a Puerto Rican Montessori school. The treatment consisted of use of multimedia technologies that included video, audio, images, and words in a digital environment for vocabulary acquisition instruction. Data sources included pretest and posttest results for the Maze Close test that measures reading comprehension. These results were analyzed using a paired t test. Results indicated that students in treatment groups developed greater reading comprehension than did those in control groups. However, the difference in scores between the groups was not significant, so the null hypothesis was not rejected. Further research is required in order to determine whether a positive relationship can exist between multimedia technology usage and development of upper elementary student vocabulary and reading comprehension. This study indicates the importance of examining whether multimedia technology use in elementary student English reading comprehension can create reading gains for upper elementary ESL students.

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White, David Lloyd. "Irish influence and the interpretation of old English spelling /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Papadopoulou, Charis-Olga. "Teachers' conceptualisation and practice of planning in the Greek EFL context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312711.

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Kisling, Reid A. "The influence of the Hebrew language on cognate datives in Koine Greek." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Bekos, Ioannis. "Phonological awareness and the process of learning to read in Greek-English bilingual children." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341400.

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Parkhurst, Diana L. "The New Testament meaning of "little ones"." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Argyri, Efrosyni. "The later stages of bilingual acquisition : crosslinguistic influence in older English-Greek bilingual children." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24675.

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Previous studies on bilingual first language acquisition have shown that even though bilingual children’s language systems develop separately, the possibility of the two languages to have an influence on each other is not excluded. Recent studies have argued that syntax-pragmatics interface structures, which instantiate a surface overlap between the two languages are vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence in bilingual acquisition. Until now, this proposal has been mainly tested with young bilingual children. This thesis explores the possibility of crosslinguistic influence, and its restriction to interface domains, in older bilingual children. We present experimental data from thirty-two English-Greek eight-year-old bilingual children, sixteen Greek-dominant living in Greece and sixteen English-dominant living in the UK, and monolingual control groups. A series of elicited production and acceptability judgement tasks were administered to investigate whether specific syntax-pragmatics interface structures, i.e. the distribution of null and overt subject pronouns and preverbal and postverbal subjects in wide-focus contexts, are more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence from English to Greek than purely syntactic structures, i.e. the placement of object pronouns in declaratives and the placement of subjects in what- embedded interrogatives. The prediction was that unidirectional crosslinguistic influence might occur from English to Greek in both bilingual groups and that the syntax-pragmatics interface structures would be found more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence than the purely syntactic structures. The findings show that overt subjects pronouns were not subject to crosslinguistic effects, while the placement of subjects both in wide-focus contexts (i.e. a syntax-pragmatics interface structure) and in what-embedded interrogatives (i.e. a purely syntactic structure) was vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence in the predicted direction, i.e. from English to Greek, but only in the English-dominant bilinguals. These data suggest that current hypotheses on the conditions on crosslinguistic influence in bilingual grammars need to be revised.

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Gregory, Debra Jane. "The Preferred Learning Styles of Greek EFL Students and Greek EFL Teachers." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4836.

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The purpose of this study was to identify the preferred learning styles of Greek EFL students and teachers in Greece. The learning styles examined were visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, group and individual. The study was conducted at a private English language school in Piraeus, Greece. Ninety-two Greek EFL students (33 male and 59 female) ranging in age from 13 to 22, and 11 Greek EFL teachers (3 male and 8 female) ranging in age from 22 to 52 constitute the sample. The study used the self-reporting learning style questionnaire that Reid (1987) developed to measure the preferred learning style preferences of ESL students in the U.S., and is a partial replication of Reid's study. The instrument was used to determine the major, minor and negligible preferred learning styles of Greek EFL students and teachers. Data from the learning style questionnaires were analyzed using paired t-tests, unpaired t-tests, single-factor and two-factor ANOVAs. Statistical analysis indicated kinesthetic learning as a major learning style for students, and visual, kinesthetic and tactile learning as major learning style preferences for teachers. No negligible learning styles were reported for either group. Students tended to prefer teacher-centered learning styles (visual, auditory and individual learning) slightly more than student-centered learning styles (kinesthetic, tactile and group learning). Furthermore, teachers tended to prefer student-centered learning styles slightly more than teacher-centered learning styles. Data from both groups (teachers and students) suggested interaction effects for age and gender. The results of this study raise questions concerning the reliability of Reid's instrument. Neither subject groups in this study, nor subjects in Hoffner's (1991) or Pia's (1989~ studies, identify negligible learning styles on the part of the subjects. This raises questions related to the reliability of Reid's instrument. It suggests that further study needs to be conducted in measuring learning style preferences in culture specific studies.

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Aeginitou, Violetta. "#Begin your sentences with a capital letter' : facework and politeness in the Greek EFL classroom." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260191.

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Papadopoulou, Anthi. "Automatic Error Detection and Correction in Neural Machine Translation : A comparative study of Swedish to English and Greek to English." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385085.

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Automatic detection and automatic correction of machine translation output are important steps to ensure an optimal quality of the final output. In this work, we compared the output of neural machine translation of two different language pairs, Swedish to English and Greek to English. This comparison was made using common machine translation metrics (BLEU, METEOR, TER) and syntax-related ones (POSBLEU, WPF, WER on POS classes). It was found that neither common metrics nor purely syntax-related ones were able to capture the quality of the machine translation output accurately, but the decomposition of WER over POS classes was the most informative one. A sample of each language was taken, so as to aid in the comparison between manual and automatic error categorization of five error categories, namely reordering errors, inflectional errors, missing and extra words, and incorrect lexical choices. Both Spearman’s ρ and Pearson’s r showed that there is a good correlation with human judgment with values above 0.9. Finally, based on the results of this error categorization, automatic post editing rules were implemented and applied, and their performance was checked against the sample, and the rest of the data set, showing varying results. The impact on the sample was greater, showing improvement in all metrics, while the impact on the rest of the data set was negative. An investigation of that, alongside the fact that correction was not possible for Greek due to extremely free reference translations and lack of error patterns in spoken speech, reinforced the belief that automatic post-editing is tightly connected to consistency in the reference translation, while also proving that in machine translation output handling, potentially more than one reference translations would be needed to ensure better results.

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Wong, Hoi-wah Winnie. "The influence of Cantonese in the acquisition of English negation among Cantonese ESL learners." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31963146.

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Johnson, Ernest B. "The influence of speaking Black English on spelling in standardized English /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8411.

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Freedman, Skott Elliot. "A beautiful day in the neighborhood the influence of neighborhood density on speech production /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego ; [San Diego] : San Diego State University, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3386582.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 12, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169).

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Giannakopoulou, Anastasia. "Plasticity in second language (L2) learning : perception of L2 phonemes by native Greek speakers of English." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6592.

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Understanding the process of language acquisition is a challenge that many researchers spanning different disciplines (e.g. linguistics, psychology, neuroscience) have grappled with for centuries. One which has in recent years attracted a lot of attention has been in the area of non-native phoneme acquisition. Speech sounds that contain multiple phonetic cues are often difficult for foreign-language learners, especially if certain cues are weighted differently in the foreign and native languages. Greek adult and child speakers of English were studied to determine which cues (duration or spectral) they were using to make discrimination and identification judgments for an English vowel contrast pair. To this end, two forms of identification and discrimination tasks were used: natural (unedited) stimuli and another ‘modified’ vowel duration stimuli which were edited so that there were no duration differences between the vowels. Results show the Greek speakers were particularly impaired when they were unable to use the duration cue as compared to the native English speakers. Similar results were also obtained in control experiments where there was no orthographic representation or where the stimuli were cross-spliced to modify the phonetic neighborhood. Further experiments used high-variability training sessions to enhance vowel perception. Following training, performance improved for both Greek adult and child groups as revealed by post training tests. However the improvements were most pronounced for the child Greek speaker group. A further study examined the effect of different orthographic cues that might affect rhyme and homophony judgment. The results of that study showed that Greek speakers were in general more affected by orthography and regularity (particularly of the vowel) in making these judgments. This would suggest that Greek speakers were more sensitive to irrelevant orthographic cues, mirroring the results in the auditory modality where they focused on irrelevant acoustic cues. The results are discussed in terms of current theories of language acquisition, with particular reference to acquisition of non-native phonemes.

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Fincham-Louis, Katherine Jane. "Bilingual Greek/English children in state elementary schools in Cyprus : a question of language and identity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7567.

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Though only a small island, Cyprus experiences particularly high rates of mixed marriages, and has one of the highest per capita ratios of immigrants in Europe. Consequently, there are a growing number of bilingual and bicultural children now entering the state elementary school system. The aim of this study is to examine the school experiences, language and identity of a select group of Greek English speaking children who have one Cypriot and one non-Cypriot parent. The sub-questions of the study focus on how the children manage languages at school, their perceptions of their peers and teachers and their opinions about the responsiveness of the school and teachers to their bilingualism. Additionally, while recognizing the fluidity and multiplicity of identity, questions about the expressions of the children’s dual national identities within school are considered. Finally, concerns over integration at school are also explored. The study claims social justice for this group, and develops a qualitative case study to engage with the manner in which the children employ their Greek and English language abilities at school, accompanied by their perceptions of the representations of their dual national identities. Multiple, individual, in-depth interviews were conducted with eight children, aged ten to twelve. Interviews with parents were also conducted as a means of strengthening the depth of the data. Additional artifacts such as language use charts, sentence completion exercises and brochures were also collected and analyzed. Using a thematic approach data was examined with the aim of understanding how the children experience their bilingualism and biculturalism within the school. The study constitutes the first of its kind in the Cypriot context and its findings are valuable for researchers, practitioners and policy makers alike. The results suggest that languages are ‘kept separate’ at school, there is a lack of recognition of this group’s bilingualism and there are possible issues of some children’s Cognitive-Academic Language proficiency (Cummins, 1979). Additionally, teachers and schools presented as ill prepared and nonresponsive to the linguistic needs of this group of children. Further findings indicate that the children experience incidents of teasing and exclusion influenced by the highly hellenocentric ethos of Cypriot schools. The study concludes that the limited definition of a bilingual student used by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus, combined with an ineffectual multiculturalism, result in this group being overlooked. The thesis suggests a broadening of the current definition of a bilingual student and a further exploration of children’s linguistic profiles. The study concludes that the children’s school experience is characterized by difference blindness to their dual cultural backgrounds and linguistic blindness to their bilingualism, broken only by regulated incidents of performance. Importantly the study also reveals that though impacted by a weak policy and difference blindness, these children engage in active agency in constructing social roles and understandings of language and identity at school. They demonstrate resilience and flexibility and are aware of the nuances of the school, the global value of their bilingualism, the access and opportunities provided by their knowledge of English and the prospects and experiences available to them through their dual cultural identities.

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Nikolaou, Alexander. "Attitudes and motivation of Greek upper secondary school pupils for learning English as a foreign language." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540090.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes and motivation for learning English as a foreign language in Greek upper secondary schools (Lykeia) following Gardner’s socio-educational model. Attitudes, as operationalised in the socio-educational model, can be broken down into attitudes to learning foreign languages, attitudes to the language under investigation (English in this case), attitudes to the learning situation (the FL lesson and teacher), and attitudes to the target language community (The British and Americans in the context of this study). The major research question is how attitudes, orientations, ideological attributes of the target language communities, motivation and achievement are related. The thesis sets out as its working hypothesis that attitudes and motivation are relevant to EFL learning and are major contributors to achievement. The present research was carried out in 3 state and 3 private Lykeia in Athens. A questionnaire was developed that was to a large extent adapted from Gardner and Lambert (1972) and Gardner (1985), but also incorporated elements from other survey instruments. Before launching the main study, the questionnaire was piloted and the necessary modifications were made. My findings indicate that to a large extent the socio-educational model is relevant to the present context of research, although the contribution of attitudes towards the target language communities and the ideologies they represent to motivation do not seem to be as important as was initially hypothesised. The study concludes with recommendations based on the findings and suggestions for further research.

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Vagianou, Maria. "Cartoon humour in children's dictionaries and its effect on English language learning in Greek primary education." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323988.

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Uždalevič, Aelita. "The influence of the English language over Lithuanian and Russian lexis." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090629_115332-34899.

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The study analyses the influence of the English language over Lithuanian and Russian lexis and explores the main tendencies. The aim of the research is to describe English borrowings in Lithuanian and Russian mass media in the last two decades. The objectives of my analysis are: to describe main factors (linguistic and extra linguistic) which influence the influx of the English borrowings; to reveal usage tendencies of the loanwords in the Russian and Lithuanian languages, and present examples of modern borrowings; to classify English borrowings semantically and structurally. The research methods used in this study are: descriptive method and content analysis. The results of the research have shown that both languages experience the influence of the English language while borrowing lexical units of different significance as a result of industrial and technological changes, new technological developments, changing attitudes, cultural transmission and other social determinants. Due to the fact, words borrowed from English represent nearly all semantic areas. Moreover, in Russian and Lithuanian languages, loanwords are subjected to various exposures to adapt them to the possibilities of a language system and the needs of those who use these languages: they acquire suffixes and/or endings of Lithuanian and Russian; they become a basis for further word-construction. In relation to this it can be stated that at the expense of borrowings, and on their basis, in the result of... [to full text]
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Crum, Catherine Elizabeth. "Influence of Technology on English Language Learners' Vocabulary, Reading, and Comprehension." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3290.

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Researchers have shown that vocabulary development is a challenge for English Language Learners (ELLs) as they are less prepared to use contextual and linguistic clues to decode unfamiliar vocabulary. Beginning in the upper elementary grades, reading in content areas becomes lengthier and more complex. Technology-supported vocabulary instruction to teach social studies to ELLs is a relatively new concept in the 5th grade classroom. The purpose of this comparative study was to assess the vocabulary and reading comprehension outcomes of ELLs in the content area of 5th grade social studies when taught using technology-supported versus traditional textbook instruction. Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning provided the theoretical foundation for the study. A quasi-experimental approach with a nonequivalent pretest and posttest comparison group design was used. All 99 5th grade ELL students at an elementary school in the southeastern United States served as the study sample. Pre-existing classroom groups were taught using technology-supported or traditional textbook instruction. Instructional groups' vocabulary test scores were compared using ANCOVA with pretest social studies vocabulary scores serving as the covariate. Results revealed that 5th grade ELL students in the technology-supported instruction group scored significantly higher on the social studies vocabulary posttest as compared to the traditional textbook instruction group. The findings of this study suggest that technology-supported instruction in social studies is an effective teaching approach for ELL students at the 5th grade level. This study could be used to guide future research in the areas of ELL language acquisition, content area learning and comprehension, and equitable instruction for all students.

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Chong, Jae Im. "FIRST LANGUAGE ATTRITION IN KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL TEENAGERS." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/646.

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This thesis is based upon a longitudinal study of L1 attrition in two bilingual teenage siblings, J and her older brother S, with Korean as their L1 and English as their L2. The two teenagers' initial exposure to English occurred at the age of 9. When the two siblings began to have sustained exposure to and immersion in an English L2 environment, they were at the postpubertal age. They had been attending high school in a Mid-Western city in the U.S for about two years when the study was conducted. The longitudinal study addressed three main questions. The first question concerned the siblings' language (L1 and L2) development, language dominance and cross-lingusitic influence from a bidrectional perspective. The second question examined the evidence for L1 attrition in relation to lexis, morphology and syntax, and their relative levels of vulnerability. The third question examined the role of extra-linguistic factors in the process of L1 attrition. In order to address the above questions, the two siblings were observed in their home over a period of 8 months. The data for the longitudinal study included the siblings' (i) spontaneous speech interactions in the home (ii) oral narratives in the L1 and L2 and (iii) their responses to a language background questionnaire. The results showed that the two siblings' English L2 developed and improved over time, but that they continued to maintain their L1 (Korean) as their dominant language. The evidence from both siblings' L1 and L2 use supported bidirectional cross-linguistic influence (i.e. from the L1 onto the L2 and from the L2 onto the L1). L1 attrition occurred only minimally in relation to morphology (e.g. honorification, case particles, classifiers, and plural marking) and lexical choice, while the siblings' L1 syntax remained relatively stable over time. Overall, the siblings were largely successful in maintaining their L1. In part, this was because their L1 was already firmly established or entrenched, as their immersion in an L2 environment occurred only when they were older (around puberty). Furthermore, their frequent use of their L1 for social networking, along with their positive attitudes toward their heritage language, also played a crucial role in maintaining and stabilizing their L1. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of the findings of the present study, as well as recommendations for the future research are discussed.

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Howell, Ellen Sook Hyang. "Life experiences that influence language acquisition in generation 1.5 students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3100.

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The study examines the life and educational experiences of five Generation 1.5 students at California State University, San Bernardino and analyzes how the first cultural socialization affects later English academic language learning. The study used three methods of gathering data: a survey questionnaire, participant-observation, and one-on-one interviews. The study also reviews other case studies that describe life and educational experiences as well as the language and cultural connections of Generation 1.5 students. An analysis of lexical, structural and interactional differences of the spoken and written modes of the English language is also included. The study's findings indicate that learning the vocabulary of the written language was a key factor in being a member of the academic community.

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Hu, Yuxiu Lucille. "L1 influence on the learning of English among high school students in Harbin a case study of adverbial placement /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36963586.

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Levesque, Guy-Luc. "Lexico-Semantic Influence in Interlingual Transfer." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4771.

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The present study replicates research by Tomoko Takahashi (1984) on lexico-semantic patterns used by students in an acquisition poor environment. The purpose of the current study was to determine how an acquisition rich environment affects learners' use of four lexico-semantic patterns: congruence occurs when the Ll definition of a lexical item forms a one-to-one correspondence with the L2 lexical item; convergence occurs when the Ll lexical item has broader applications than the L2 lexical item; divergence occurs when the L2 lexical item has broader applications than the Ll lexical item; and semantic gap occurs when the Ll lexical item has no appropriate corresponding L2 lexical item (Takahashi, 1984). The instrument, a lexico-semantics test, is the same instrument used in Takahashi's study. It was designed to measure which patterns are most frequently used by Japanese EFL students learning English. The results, unlike Takahashi's, suggest that beginning and advanced ESL students use the four patterns equally well. No significant difference was found between the two groups. These results are contrary to what had been expected. However, they show that the proposed hierarchical order of difficulty of congruence, convergence, divergence and semantic gap is the same in both studies. The results also indicate that the acquisition· rich environment seems to dramatically improve beginners' performance of the four patterns. Since the instrument was designed for EFL students (an acquisition poor environment) it may not have fully challenged the advanced ESL students (an acquisition rich environment) while challenging the beginning students. This may have been due to the fact that the students in the present study received a great deal of input from the acquisition rich environment, which could account for their increased ability to restructure hypotheses about L2 vocabulary items. In conclusion, more studies are needed to determine the complete role of the four lexico-semantic patterns in vocabulary acquisition. An expanded follow up study that fully tests the advanced and beginning ESL learners' ability could determine whether both groups progress along a language continuum with respect to the use of the four lexico-semantic patterns. Furthermore, although the patterns may serve, in a limited capacity, as indicators of a learner's difficulties in vocabulary acquisition, a wider body of research is needed before they can be applied in a language learning environment.

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Escondo, Timothy Francis Escondo. "Directional Influence of Acculturation and Language Proficiency." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo152545146327764.

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Masube, Elizabeth Tobani. "The influence of teacher discourse moves on comprehensibility of language content by English first additional language (EFAL) learners." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/642.

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This study was intended to investigate how teacher discourse moves influence comprehensibility of language content by the English First Additional Language (EFAL) learner and promote active participation by the learner in classroom interaction. The research is a Case Study which was conducted at a primary school in the Greater Sekhukhune District in Limpopo Province The Qualitative research approach was applied in the Case Study since the research is concerned with experience as it is lived ‘or felt’ or ‘undergone’ by participants. the key concern of this research is understanding the phenomenon of interest, from the participants’ perspectives, not the researcher’s. The situation in most Black schools is that first of all, teachers who teach English First Additional Language (EFAL) are not first speakers of English themselves. Secondly, learners have a problem of acquiring information through English as an additional language hence the question of comprehensibility of English language content. Teachers and especially learners are de-motivated as they lose interest in what goes on in Englishclassroom interaction due to the comprehensibility of English First Additional Language content As participant observer the researcher in this study concludes that the use of discourse moves by the teacher in classroom interaction enables the learner to comprehend the language content. Also that the teacher’s code-switching and code-mixing into the learners’ home language develops not only comprehensibility of EFAL language content but most of all promotes active learner participation in classroom interaction. This in turn helps the teacher to achieve the desired learning outcomes.

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Papadomichelaki, Roumpini Alkaterini, and Lash Keith Vance. "English language institute in Greece: A business proposal." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2151.

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Lepine, Christine. "Adolescent learners' awareness of first language influence on their second language knowledge." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33912.

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This research is a replication and expansion of Lightbown and Spada (2000) which investigated the metalinguistic awareness of 11--12 year-old francophone learners of English as second language (ESL). Their research examined whether young L2 learners were able to make explicit L1 rules influencing their L2 performance. The present research builds on Lightbown and Spada (2000) by comparing their findings to those of older and more proficient francophone ESL learners (12--16 years old) in secondary school. As observed with the younger learners in Lightbown and Spada (2000), the interlanguage of the older learners revealed a clear influence of transfer of French even though they were more accurate in their overall performance. The results also indicated that the older learners were capable of considerable metalinguistic awareness regarding the target features (question formation and adverb placement). This contrasts sharply with Lightbown and Spada's (2000) in which there was no evidence of metalinguistic awareness on the part of the younger learners.

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Moran, andrew Damian. "The Influence of St Augustine on Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626222.

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Earl, Jennifer. "The influence of African folktales on Sylvia Path's 'Ariel voice'." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12847.

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In this study I trace the influence of Paul Radin’s collection of African folktales on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel poems. Elements from these tales have been identified by various critics in Plath’s “Poem for a Birthday” sequence which, according to Hughes, she wrote around the same time as she was reading the African tales. However, the importance of the tales to her later poetry has not yet been fully explored in Plath criticism. “Poem for a Birthday” marks an important stage in the emergence of what has become known as Plath’s “Ariel voice” and it is my contention that the influence of the African tales is significantly present even in this later work. The Ariel poems manifest a preoccupation with motherhood which merges thematically with creative fruitfulness. I examine how Plath adopts and uses the concept of “the African” in Ariel to represent repressed aspects of the human psyche which must emerge into consciousness in order for creative expression to attain a level of deep resonance. This engagement is repeatedly presented as a vital “primitive” force emerging from beneath a stony silent reality. The Africanfolktales provided Plath with a novel set of imagery and resources with which to portray this explorative process. I therefore explore Plath’s interest in “primitivism”. I also argue that the orality of the African tales inspired Plath to focus on the oral nature of her later writing. I hope in this study to free Plath’s Ariel voice from the shadow of her suicide. More importantly, I hope to show that her own collection of Ariel poems represented an important moment in her creative development that envisaged a vital spirit of possibility, activated dramatically by an engagement with Radin’s African tales.

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Kreutz, Josefin, and Natalie Rhodin. "The influence of ICT on learners’ motivation towards learning English." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34532.

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This degree project aims to investigate if ICT has any influence as motivation for English foreign language learners. Furthermore, this study is to investigate in what way the motivation is affected, if it is affected at all. Today, computers and other digital tools such as tablets influence the society greatly and are a part of the learners’ everyday life. The data in this study is analyzed and collected through survey questionnaires. The participants are 45 third graders from a Swedish elementary school. Many students today have a great interest in computers and tablets since it is a part of their daily life. Andersson (2003) states that many are bored since the Swedish school still hold to the old traditions. Hence, this project aims to investigate if incorporating ICT in the EFL classroom can increase students’ motivation. The conclusion of this study is that the majority of students are affected by ICT in a positive way. Also, the collected data showed that students’ motivation increased because the lessons got more fun and they felt happier when incorporating ICT in the EFL classroom.

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Scott, Dinah. "The Influence of an English-as-a-Second-Language Professional Development Program on Perceptions of Teacher Efficacy for Instructing English Language Learners." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7662.

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English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing student group in U.S. public schools. ELLs also consistently lag behind their native-English speaking peers in academic achievement. These facts set the stage for the study that evaluated one school district’s program to prepare their teachers to effectively educate ELLs. This program included a year-long series of six professional development courses that covered ELL-specific topics. The study’s evaluation tools included an online survey completed by teachers who took the courses, teachers’ feedback on course evaluation forms, interviews of district-level officials familiar with the program, and an examination of the homework assignments from each course. The program evaluation showed that teachers and district officials thought the courses helped prepare the teachers to instruct ELLs. However, the teachers’ feedback about the program’s influence included some specific references to teaching ELLs, but more examples from general education settings. The evaluation also found that only about 10% of the homework assignments required direct instruction of students. These evaluation results suggest that the program could be strengthened to include more opportunities for teachers to practice instructing ELLs. This additional practice could increase teachers’ confidence to serve the needs of ELLs in their classrooms.

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Aaron, Rebecca. "The Influence of Online English Language Instruction on ESL Learners' Fluency Development." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6579.

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The number of students participating in online-based instruction has grown steadily over the past decade as improvements in Internet availability, speed, and bandwidth have enabled students from around the world to enroll in online courses rather than participate in onsite traditional college courses. Online courses have also provided educational opportunities for language learners that are more convenient and cost effective. With the growth occurring in online instruction, it is critical to ask about the effectiveness of online English language learning. Even though this type of instructional medium has been available for more than a decade, there has been little empirical research documenting the linguistic changes of English language learners as most research has focused on curriculum development or the structure of such courses (Moore and Kearsly, 2005 & Vai & Sosulski, 2011). Moreover, online language courses that have evaluated language development have focused on skills such as reading, writing, and listening (Blake, 2008). In order to investigate the benefits of English language courses taught completely online and the oral fluency gains that learners make within such a course, this study analyzed audio samples produced by intermediate level ESL students during the initial and final speaking tasks of the course. Instruction utilized asynchronous and synchronous interactions between the teacher, tutor, and fellow students. Results showed that fluency features for learners did change over the course of 14 weeks of instruction, and that learners valued the interaction that they had with tutors and faculty during the course.

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Wong, Hoi-wah Winnie, and 黃凱華. "The influence of Cantonese in the acquisition of English negation among Cantonese ESL learners." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31963146.

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Wong, Kuen Kolya. "The influence of gender on the use of hedges by Cantonese speakers in English." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36877682.

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Nieves, Teresita. "Language, learning, and the achievement gap : the influence of classroom practices and conversational interactions on academic performance /." Abstract Full Text (HTML) Full Text (PDF), 2008. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000511/02/37DissFT.htm.

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Dissertation advisor: Sheldon T. Watson. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 294-309). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Huang, Yu-Chun. "The Influence of Speech Shadowing on English Word-initial Consonants Produced by Speakers of English as a Foreign Language." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10785321.

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The purpose of this research is to determine whether speech shadowing influences the values of voice onset time (VOT) of word-initial consonants, /b/, /p/, /t/, /d/, and /k/ in reading and speaking conditions after a four-week training period. Twenty participants separated into two groups from a learning center in Taipei, Taiwan were recruited for this experiment. Mann-Whitney U tests were conducted to compare the values of VOT of five word-initial consonants in reading and speaking conditions, and narrative analyses were conducted to distinguish the differences among reading, speaking, and shadowing conditions. The results indicate that after the training period, the pronunciations of the consonants /b/, /p/, and /d/ had changed in reading and speaking conditions. The teaching of English pronunciation in Taiwan elementary schools was discussed and speech shadowing was recommended as one pedagogical method for improving the acquisition of English pronunciation.

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Engelhardt, Maike. "Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1844.

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Beauprez, Nathalie. "Extramural English and English Proficiency : A Teacher’s Perspective on the Influence of Extramural English on the English proficiency of their Students." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37804.

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The umbrella term used in research to imply exposure to the English language outside the classroom is “extramural English”. The impact of the engagement in activities by second language learners of English through extramural activities is generally perceived as positive for language development. The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of teachers in Swedish lower secondary school on the influence of online extramural English on the written and spoken English proficiency of students, enrolled in years six till nine, learning English as a foreign language.A qualitative study in the form of an online questionnaire, consisting of open- and closed-ended questions, is used to answer three research questions: 1. What is the overall perspective of English teachers on their students’ proficiency in English and the influence of extramural English? 2. What is the perspective of English teachers on their students’ proficiency in written English and the influence of extramural English? 3. What is the perspective of English teachers on their students’ proficiency in oral English and the influence of extramural English? Teachers clearly believe that oral communication and listening skills benefit more than reading and writing skills from online extramural activities in English.

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Scribner, Michelle. "Influence of Social and Cultural Capital including Language of English Learners on Student Engagement." Thesis, University of Redlands, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10172296.

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English learners typically score below their English o0nly peers on state and national standardized tests, demonstrating that there is a need to explore possibilities as to why this achievement gap is widening. Applying a conceptual framework stemming from the concepts of social and cultural capital from sociologist Bourdieu, this study examines the language as social and cultural capital of English learners at a school site and its influence on student engagement. This qualitative study used narrative inquiry and a semi structured interview protocol to gain insights from teachers, students and district personnel. Although the findings in this study are not generalizable, it suggest language influences a student’s ability to be engaged in the classroom through access, relationships, trust, identity, success, and cultural diversity and awareness in this particular school site found in a local Southern California school district. Having a deeper understanding of how language, social and cultural capital influence engagement will assist educators in planning instructional lessons that are academically rigorous and relevant to the student in order to provide access and upward social mobility to English learner students.

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Moraya, Abdullah. "The Influence of Culture and Cultural Background Knowledge on Saudi Students' English Language Learning." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1134.

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Many researchers (Hymes, 1964; Kaplan, 1966; Gumperz, 1972; Brown, 1987; Nida, 1998) have asserted that language and culture are inseparable and both of them affect each other. Recent advances within the theory and methods of language teaching have begun to emphasize the role of culture in language learning and the importance of cultural learning. However, little research has been done to investigate how knowledge of a foreign culture facilitates communication of Saudi students with its people even though mastery of the language of that culture has not yet been achieved. The purpose of this qualitative research is to investigate the influence of culture on the learning of English as a second language by native speakers of Arabic from Saudi Arabia. The participants of this study were nine Saudi students at a mid-western University in the U.S. All of them had begun learning English in Saudi Arabia and came to the U.S. to continue their undergraduate and graduate studies. The subjects were interviewed on an individual basis using a semi-structured format. Also, they completed a brief written questionnaire about demographic and background information about their language learning and cultural experiences in Saudi Arabia and in the U.S. The audio-recorded interviews were transcribed and analyzed by using thematic analysis. The participants' narratives were analyzed for major themes that emerged in relation to the influence of cultural and cultural experiences on their English language learning. The four major themes were American English and diversity in the U.S, gender, individualism and student-centered approach. The results of this study revealed how culture affects Saudi students' English language learning. The themes that emerged in relation to the influence of culture stressed the strong relationship between language and culture. Furthermore, the findings shed light on the cultural challenges faced by Saudi students in learning English and in communicating in English with native-English speaking Americans, and the extent to which cultural learning is integrated in their language learning process.

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Henderson, Joshua. "Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom." TopSCHOLAR®, 2006. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/274.

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In the years since he formulated and expanded on it in The Anxiety of Influence (1973), A Map of Misreading (1975), and Kaballah and Criticism (1975), Harold Bloom's theory of the "anxiety of influence" has engendered more ambivalence than serious investigation into his theory and its influences. In part, the ambivalence is due to Bloom's persona, which irritates the academic "left" and "right" alike. Surprisingly, it is not Bloom's defense of canonicity against post-structural Marxism, feminism, and New Historical criticism that generates the most resistance; instead, Bloom's dissenters more often come from the ranks of conservative traditionalists who might be expected to support him. The reaction of traditionalist critics to Bloom's work stems from a recognition and rejection of how deeply antithetical Bloom's hallmark theory really is in relation to the prevailing understanding of literary influence. Taking his cues from Deconstruction, the fiercely revisionistic mystical traditions of Gnosticism and Kaballah, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the meditations of Emerson, Bloom's theory is revealed—to one's delight or dismay—as profoundly agonistic. Nevertheless, a close reading of these influences of Bloom's reveal a profound life-affirming humanism that ceaselessly quests for "Gnosis" in all literature.

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Voigt, Suzann Wanda. "The Boethian Influence on the "Alliterative Morte d'Arthure"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625746.

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Tukwasibwe, Constance. "The influence of indigenous languages on Ugandan English as used in the media." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015637.

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When two or more languages come in contact, they influence each other in various ways, for example through word borrowing, transfer of sounds, morphology and syntax taken from one language system and imported to another. In this study, the primary concern is on the indigenous communities of Uganda learning the English language, plus the influence that this interaction brings into the linguistic space. Bringing the Ugandan multilingual situation into perspective, the study looks at how the English language has interacted with the local languages and the local speech habits, customs and traditions of the indigenous people, to the extent that it has been indigenized. Some word usage results in miscommunication due to the socio-cultural uniqueness of Ugandan cultural expressions. As an example, because of the practice of polygamy in most Ugandan cultures, words like co-wife are coined to mean 'a woman who shares a husband, or a husband's other wife', a word that is absent in both the language and culture of native English speakers. Furthermore some words are formed by calquing some indigenous language expressions, e.g. 'to eat money' or 'to eat cash', an expression that is calqued from the Luganda phrase, kulya sente. Such word coinages are meant to fill the 'shortfall' where the English language fails to provide adequate equivalents. Understanding the context of this kind of English usage and the influence from the indigenous languages is helpful in handling inter-cultural discourses, as the same expression may convey different senses to different people in different contexts. So then, this study deals with some peculiarities of Ugandan English, namely; the features of Ugandan English grammar which are influenced by the indigenous languages. Evidence from the Corpus of Ugandan English is explored to establish that indigenous languages in Uganda have a significant influence on the English language variety spoken in the country, and that a large part of English bilingual speakers cannot speak English without transferring the features from their mother tongue or indeed, switching and mixing codes. A British corpus was used for the purposes of comparison with Ugandan English. The research was conducted in Uganda, drawing data from English newspapers, radio and television talk -shows that were recorded to provide a structural analysis of the contact situations. The result of the study points to the fact that, indeed, the phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of Ugandan English have a considerable amount of influence from indigenous local languages. This study is hinged on the assumption that when indigenous languages and the target language come together in a linguistic contact situation, the resulting variety would exhibit distinct phonological, lexical, grammatical and semantic/pragmatic features ( cf. Sankoff, 2001; Thomason, 1995; Thomason & Kaufman, 1988; Winford, 2005). However, some of these innovations have attracted criticism from 'prescriptivists' such as Quirk (1985, 1988, 1990); Gaudio (2011); and Abbot (1991) who perceive them as 'nonstandard', 'incorrect English language usage' and a 'direct translation from the language user's mother tongue into English'. Yet, indigenous languages continue to play important roles in shaping the kind of English language usage in Uganda.

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