Investigating boredom among EFL teachers by Dumančić Dino

“…The findings pointed to different causes of boredom in the Croatian FLT context, such as grammar tasks and uninteresting subject matter. Croatian teachers reported various manifestations of boredom, i.e. cognitive and motivational, as well as diverse emotion regulation strategies employed, such as introducing new content or engaging in physical activity. …”
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Des nombres à prendre ou à l’essai by Bertrand Richet

“…The result of the tension between fuzziness and precision in spontaneous spoken discourse is a grammar of numerical approximation forms which combine the scanning of quantity and of its representation. …”
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La stratégie de la « smart city » au Japon : expérimentations nationales et circulations globales by Raphaël Languillon-Aussel, Nicolas Leprêtre, Benoit Granier

“…Rather than a model, the “smart” communities are part of what pragmatic sociology calls a grammar of the urban. If there is somehow a model, the Japanese case teaches us it might be more in the governance of this new object whom experimentations are various and heterogeneous, in particular in the context of the Japanese developmentalist regime, part of the Japanese capitalism. …”
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Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help by Mathilde Pinson

“…As these processing factors limit the frequency of dispreferred structures, they contribute to diminishing speakers / hearers’ familiarity with these structures, which gradually alters their acceptability judgements, and, in turn, the grammar of English.…”
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Grammatical underpinnings of lexicalization patterns in Croatian, English and French: The case of [N PP] constructions by Daniela Katunar, Ida Raffaelli

“…Whereas French and Croatian employ a similar lexicalization pattern, English uses compounding. The lexicon – grammar continuum is thus observed from the perspective of syntactic structures participating in word-formation. …”
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« No ifs or buts. / I didn’t say if or but, I said no » : Le sujet et son désir contre le discours de la psychiatrie by Nicolas Pierre Boileau

“…The body that was once abused, exposed, mistreated in Blasted, to the extent that it was unbearable in performance, is reduced to a voice, in 4.48 Psychosis, whose language defies the laws of grammar and which seems to circulate like a bodiless soul. …”
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The Unstressed Vowel Reduction of Galician by Alba Aguete Cajiao

“…The results show that two different mechanisms are involved in the reduction process, namely raising and centralization, and conclude that, in Galician, this process does not depend on the duration of the segment, and, thus, it is controlled by the grammar of the language.…”
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La « Philosophie spontanée d'un savant » by Fabienne Toupin

“…Henri Adamczewski developed an utterer-centered approach to the grammar of English for which he is well-known in France. …”
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Symbolic dynamics, entropy and complexity of the feigenbaum map at the accumulation point by Werner Ebelings, Katja Rateitschak

“…In particular we are interested in the grammar of these sequences; completing earlier studies we study here arbitrary partitions also. …”
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An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture by Alfons Puigarnau

“…These writings demonstrate the pivotal role of the arts of the word (dialectic, rhetoric, and grammar) in this cultural center of great European significance. …”
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Dialogues théoriques autour de l’émergence du sens linguistique et visuel by Séverine Letalleur-Sommer

“…But concepts that belong to distinct linguistic traditions of thought, such as generative grammar or the French speaker-centred approach, may also be of some help with respect to image analysis. …”
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L’artificieuse alternative de Ford Madox Ford dans The Good Soldier by Catherine Pesso-Miquel

“…This article begins by analysing the various devices used by modernist and postmodernist novelists to break the frame of narrative illusion (devices often based on an either/or opposition), before showing that Ford boldly preferred the conjunction and, piling up aporetic contradictions and incompatibilities that operate at the level of plot, grammar, time scheme, and characterisation. Thus the novel brilliantly creates the illusion that there is an elaborate, rich story to be understood and interpreted while at the same time preventing any satisfactory piecing together, by the reader, of all the details and fragments of this discontinuous tale. …”
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The Role of Learners’ Native Language in EFL Self-Efficacy Beliefs: an Exploratory Study by Blake Turnbull

“…The major findings show that Japanese university-level EFL students believed the use of Japanese may help to improve their English reading and writing skills more than their speaking and listening skills, as well as for the learning of grammar and vocabulary in particular. Suggestions about what university EFL educators can do are also provided. …”
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Investigating English-Speaking Problems of Senior High School Students in Indonesia by Annisa Nur Sabilla, Nita Kaniadewi

“…Students also encountered significant challenges with grammar and pronunciation as they struggled to structure sentences and pronounce words correctly. …”
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A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Use of Singular Nouns by Pakistani Students in Higher Education by Mahmood Ahmad, Humaira Irfan, Muhammad Khalid

“…The findings suggest that Pakistani English exhibits distinct features from standard British English in terms of spelling, word choice, and grammar. The study contributes to understanding the use of English in Pakistan and its status as a distinct variety.…”
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‘TAM’ in English constructions vs. Polish renditions – Selected transference pitfalls by Dorota Chłopek

“…The Polish versions of the examples analysed and discussed in the present paper demonstrate a variety of means in which Polish grammar is used to handle the disparities between the English and Polish versions. …”
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Some considerations on Bible translation as complex process by J. G. van der Watt, Y. Kruger

“…These different aspects (grammar, structure, etc.) combine in an interactive process and result in meaning. …”
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A Cognitive Linguistics approach to the ‘less is more’ paradox of communication, with specific reference to public relations messages by Luna Beard

“…The analysis ties in with the claim that much of our conceptualisation of experience is metaphorical, which both motivates and constrains our creativity.The advantages of an analysis within Cognitive Grammar are shown to reside in its potential to interpret linguistic expressions metaphorically and to account for stylistic phenomena. …”
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Communicative Language Teaching Method in Teaching the Kazakh Language to Russian-Speaking Technical Students in Kazakhstan by N. M. Aubakirov, A. A. Dolgopolova

“…The paper explains ineffectiveness of the traditional grammar-translation method used today in many educational institutions. …”
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