Catálogo de libros: Alfabetismo

1241 Catálogo de libros: Alfabetismo

  • The State of Children’s Literature in Ethiopia
    Misrak Tenna
    Children’s literature criticism comprises both generalists’ discussions of the relationship between children’s literature and literary theory as well as a literary analysis of specific work or works of literature. But practical children’s literary criticism tends to limit its scope in content analysis giving emphasis for the psychological and educational merits of the literatur...
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    75,94 €

  • Psyche-Moral-Comic Sense in R.K.Narayan’s Novels
    R. Narayanan / RNarayanan
    This book is the most comprehension work on R.K.Narayan and perhaps the only one that the aim of this book is to exhibit how Narayan’s comical sense goes with the three personality types:- Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Through the psyche analysis of the common human weaknesses, it results, the change in the process of mind and then, is the rebirth of self and the process of its educ...
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    75,94 €

  • The Cross-Cultural Composition Class for ESL Writing Students
    Navid Saberi-Najafi
    The present study focuses upon how ESL students feel about the placement options available to them for first-year composition classes at a public university in the northwestern United States. The present study has confirmed several weaknesses of the mainstream composition class. One is a general disregard for some of the affective needs of ESL learners, in other words, factors ...
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    75,94 €

  • The orgy is over
    Claudio Vescia Zanini
    Among the many polemic and pungent ideas presented by the French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard, there is his 1990 claim that the contemporary world is haunted by 'cancer', 'transvestite' and 'terrorism', three phantasies which are present in virtually every instance of human life. 15 years afterwards, American writer Chuck Palahniuk presents us 'Haunted', a mindb...
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    121,44 €

  • Post-Colonial Haunting & Confused Identities
    Chamindri Liyanage
    The book examines Michael Ondaatje’s presentation of fictional post-colonial migrants and their quest for a post-colonial identity in their new Western surroundings as portrayed in three of Ondaatje’s novels: Anil’s Ghost, The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion. The focus of the book is to determine if there is a distinct affinity between Ondaatje’s migrants’ colonial pa...
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    76,13 €

  • Dora and her Sisters
    Catherine Mainland
    Revision with unchanged content. This book examines the rebellions of marginalized, ignored, or silenced female characters in six works by two Jewish authors, Georg Hermann and Arthur Schnitzler. While Schnitzler’s more famous heroines have been amply studied, his earlier plays have been neglected. Hermann was one of the most popular authors of his day, but has yet to be redisc...
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    119,40 €

  • Coffeehouse-Women
    Franziska Kutik
    Towards the end of the seventeenth century an institution developed that encouraged the emergence of public life in London and simultaneously illustrated the separation within London’s society: the coffeehouse. Affected by various contradictions, the coffeehouse opposes peaceful sociability to boisterous nocturnal activities. With regard to literature, periodicals give a differ...
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    43,46 €

  • social construction of gender in women magazine
    JOSEPH KARANJA
    Its interesting to see whether Women Magazines constructs ’femininity’ any differenly from the other genres.This book may answer your question! Consider the following leads in the book: Gender construction in advertisements :basic analysis and layers of meaning in advertisements.Why naked pictures of women and not men in advertisements? Female objectification and Gender c...
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    76,44 €

  • A Basic Reader on Phonetics
    Aju Samuel Thomas / Md Sohel Rana
    The book 'A Basic Reader on Phonetics: in an Acoustic Phonetic Perspective' deals with the most basic knowledge on speech sounds in linguistics. This book is an introduction to phonetics, the description and classification of the sounds of speech. This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics designed for students with only a basic knowledge ...
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    76,38 €

  • Dynamic Assessment and Interlanguage Pragmatics
    Minoo Alemi / Sarah Pakzadian / Zia Tajeddin
    This book reports on a study aimed at exploring the advantage of Dynamic Assessment as an instructional instrument over Non-dynamic (traditional) Assessment and Non-assessment approaches in the pragmatic production of EFL learners. The target speech acts of apology, complaint, and compliment were chosen for the study. Results of the study showed that there was a ...
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    107,82 €

  • University Students’ Hemispheric Dominance
    Julieta Tendero
    The Philippines is the world’s third largest English-speaking nation. Its higher education system depends on English language as the official medium of instruction, and the university students’ academic performance primarily reflects their English language proficiency. This study randomly selected 240 Filipino university students and used Pearson r in testing and analyzing the ...
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    107,75 €

  • Schema Building Activities in L2 Reading and Listening Comprehension
    Abbas Ali Zarei / Maryam Mahmudi
    This book is a theoretical review as well as an empirical analysis of the effects of linguistic, formal, and content schema building activities on L2 listening and reading comprehension. In the first two chapters, the theoretical aspects of the issue are reviewed. The next three chapters elaborate on an empirical attempt to describe the nature of the relationships among the afo...
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    76,65 €

  • The Use of Drama Techniques in Teaching of English Language
    Kaptingei Solomon Too
    This study sought to establish how teachers of English use drama techniques to teach. It aimed to establish how effective language teaching could be achieved through use of drama techniques that enhance authentic language use through learners’active participation. The study addressed the missing link between teachers methodology, choice of content and learners participation tha...
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    76,58 €

  • Acquisition of English prepositions by Sri Lankan ESL Learners
    Sandamali Gamage
    Teachers of English often point out the fact that university learners still make basic prepositional errors in their writing. Since there is a dearth of research work pertaining to the acquisition of English prepositions in Sri Lanka, my endeavour is to take a further step toward investigating and gaining a comprehensive understanding of this prepositional problem. This book is...
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    122,13 €

  • Style That Communicates
    D. David Wilson / DDavid Wilson
    The works of William Gerald Golding, particularly the Lord of the Flies, have received a worldwide admiration and acceptance for his style of language use and intensity of the content. His fictional novel Lord of the Flies reveals the society, culture and the language used in the novel has established his significant contribution to the field of literature, linguistics and styl...
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    124,39 €

  • Form-focused Instruction of Formulaic Sequences
    Reza Jafari Tadi / Sasan Baleghizadeh
    In recent years, formulaic sequences have received a great deal of attention. These chunks are often named multi-word units, fixed expressions, or lexicalized phrases. These expressions can help English L2 learners improve their spoken fluency by making pauses shorter and less frequent. This study investgated the impact of formulaic sequences on Iranian EFL learners’ fluency wh...
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    75,02 €

  • Form-Focused Instruction of English Idioms
    Jalal A’lipour / Javad A’lipour / Saeed Ketabi
    As the results of exclusively meaning-centered language teaching frameworks have been far from promising, it is now generally agreed that some attention to second language items is necessary in order for acquisition to occur. Therefore, Form-focused Instruction (FFI)is considered to be a necessary component of language teaching contexts where the focus is strictly on meaning. T...
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    90,96 €

  • Wildlife Conservation and Ecotourism Potentials in Ethiopia
    Sintayehu Workeneh Dejene
    In the face of degradations of natural resources and lack of alternative options, there are potentials of ecotourism in and around Awash National Park(ANP) which degraded by anthropogenic activities .The major objective of this study was assessing these potentials of ecotourism or alternative options for sustainable use of natural resources, poverty alleviation and food sec...
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    74,88 €

  • Irish Female Politicians
    Berit Schölzel
    Revision with unchanged content. This work offers an overview of female Irish politicians and their work since the foundation of the Irish Republic. The author does not only analyse the reasons for the continuous lack of women in Irish politics but also to what extent female Irish politicians have raised their voices to fight for women’s rights and to put gender topics on t...
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    89,58 €

  • Radicalism in feminist literature
    Winnet Chindedza
    This study is set out to establish the extent to which female characters in selected texts are portrayed as radical.The textual findings have established that it is true that the female characters in the selected texts have been portrayed as radical especially looking at African standard expectations of a decent woman. However, the study has also established that these females ...
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    76,38 €

  • Translation Strategies, Locus of Control and Translation Achievement
    Ali Moharer / Behzad Ghonsooly
    The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between translation students’ Locus of Control and their use of translation strategies as well as the relationship between their Locus of Control and their achievement. Participants of the study included 151 seniors who studied English Translation at Mashhad Universities and Institutes of higher education. Ques...
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    76,32 €

  • Mythology and Allegory in Drama
    Gankhanani Moffat Moyo
    This work compares the use of allegory and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson by reading Soyinka’s The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman, and Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored. It shows that Soyinka has used both ancient Greek and African mythologies while Jonson has used ancient Greek mythologies only. The study ...
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    93,46 €

  • Second Language Writing
    Inés Frigerio
    This dissertation was generated by the lexical problems observed in foreign language learners at the moment of expressing their meanings when writing across two genres:narrations and descriptions. The learners whose written production was investigated belong to the 1st Year at the English Training College at Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (Córdoba), Argentina. Due to their ...
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    75,08 €

  • Challenges of translating at the interface of Cultures
    Sadiki Moshi Feruzi
    The major purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges posed by cultural expressions in translating the play Nitaolewa Nikipenda from English into Kiswahili. The study employed the Cultural theory of translation (CTT) which asserts that translation of literary text became a transaction not only between two linguistic substitutions but also a negotiation between two c...
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    75,08 €

  • English Language Proficiency of Bangladeshi Students
    Md.Kamrul Hasan
    The main objective of the present study is to examine the relationship between different social psychological variables on the one hand and proficiency on the other. The author has found a significant correlation between scoring for exact responses versus acceptable included responses, suggesting the Cloze procedure would well be appropriate for use with non-native speaker...
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    75,26 €

  • The English Translation of ’WA’ in Quranic Text
    Imran Ho Abdullah / Yassir Ahmed Alsbagh
    This study investigates the Arabic conjunction ’wa’ and how it is translated into English. Firstly, it aims to examine the conjunctive relations posed by each ’wa’ found in surah Yasin and how they are translated in the surah. It then tries to assess the semantic functions of these ’wa’ and whether the English translations match with the meaning in the source text. It was found...
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    75,33 €

  • Promoting Pakistani Variety of English by English Newspapers
    Arshad Mahmood / Muhammad Uzair / Muhammmad Zia-ur-Rehman
    One of the hundreds of genuine and creative efforts for the researchers, academicians, and transformers, who will love to read for multifaceted purposes, is presented in the shape of this book. This piece of original work on variety of English Language will profoundly facilitate, the people who interact with English Language directly or indirectly, especially the people who str...
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    124,34 €

  • Native American Identity Reexpressed
    Rulan Ye
    Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-), dedicated to the cause of reviving Native American culture, is reputed as one of most prominent contemporary Native American writers. She has integrated strong Indian color to her works by perfectly mixing diversified genres into the literary pieces, by connecting the writing closely to nature, and by implementing oral tradition and storytelling. He...
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    124,49 €

  • A Universal Grammar Approach To Teach Grammar Based The X-bar Theory
    Ghazali Mustapha / Neda Saeipoor
    This study has been conducted to investigate the possible effects of presenting the syntax rules to the participants following the order of the X-bar parameters’ availability and triggering the target language parameter resetting by emphasizing on the input. This objective led to devising and applying a new approach for teaching English grammar based on the X-bar theory and to ...
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    105,08 €

  • Vision of Budding Artists in Sons and Lovers and A Portrait
    Ruhina Jesmin
    This research work introduces the readers with Lawrence’s Paul and Joyce’s Stephen as artists,in the framework of psychoanalysis, having some similarities and differences in their artisic temperament,inclination, empathy, epiphany,inspiration for their art, rebellion, distortion of conventional morality,practical atheism, ideology,sensitivity to words and language. It uncovers ...
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    74,88 €