Plurilinguisme, diglossie et minorités : le cas de la Suisse by Claudine Brohy

“…The texts discussed are part of the political and official (constitutions, federal and cantonal laws etc.), media (broadcast, articles, letters to the editor etc.) and individual discourse on multilingualism, languages and dialects. These documents are supplemented by documents written by students of the Language Center and the Section for plurilingualism and foreign language teaching of the bilingual University of Fribourg/Freiburg (texts posted in a blog on Swiss-German diglossia by students training to be teachers of German as a second language, language biographies, written papers) which deal with the topics of identity, attitudes, competence and belonging. …”
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Promoting critical reading instruction in higher education: a three-step training scheme facilitated by using corpus technology by Yang Jing, Mei Fang

“…Learners as corpus researchers: Developing cognitive skills through hands-on concordancing. Foreign Languages Education 18(3). 73–103). The results indicate a positive response to the CBLP, with students’ independent exploration task contributing to improved critical reading and thinking skills. …”
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Cross-Linguistic Influences of Learning German in Finnish and German Upper Secondary Schools by Esa M. Penttinen, Heiner Böttger

“…The aim of this study is to find out what importance upper secondary school learners of German attach to the cross-linguistic influence (CLI) regarding specific aspects of German language learning in Finland and Germany. Cross-linguistic learning gives learners additional skills to learn and understand structures and words in their mother tongue, a second language or a foreign language. …”
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I.G. Tyulin Scientific Library by M. V. Reshetnikova

“…This has considerably enriched the book collection, as the Institute of Oriental led his chronicle of the Lazarev School of Oriental Languages, founded in 1815 and features a wonderful book collection. …”
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A Meta-Analysis of Use of Serious Games in Education over a Decade by Yu Zhonggen

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Does the instructional approach really matter? A comparative study of the impact of online and in-person instruction on learner engagement by Zhiyong Li, Zonglin Dai, Jiaying Li, Pengju Guan

“…The study is based on 168 learners in China who attended online and in-person English as a foreign language (EFL) course, respectively, across two semesters. …”
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Exploring the efficacy of writing comics as a tool for enhancing EFL writing skills of undergraduate Ecuadorian polytechnic students by Felix Estrella

“…Purpose – This paper aims to identify the effectiveness, student perceptions and impacts of integrating comics into the English as a foreign language (EFL) writing curriculum for undergraduate Ecuadorian polytechnic students. …”
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A virtual-reality (VR) cognitive pupillometry analysis of auditory and visual phonemic awareness tasks involving ‘th’ sound variations by Mohsen Mahmoudi-Dehaki, Nasim Nasr-Esfahani

“…Rooted in the Cognitive Load (CL) and Dual Coding theories, this sequential explanatory study examined the CL levels experienced by 36 available Iranian pre-intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in auditory and visual Phonemic Awareness Tasks (PATs). …”
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Overlap or breakthrough? exploration of the academic buoyancy structure in Chinese EFL learners. by Tao Zeng, Ke Zhong, Wanting Wang

“…This study seeks to bridge this gap by investigating academic buoyancy within the realm of foreign language learning, specifically among university students in mainland China studying English as a foreign language (EFL). …”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…Consequently, alongside original Lithuanian terminology, a considerable number of translated terms, calques, and foreign language influences emerged, leading to synonymy issues. …”
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Using the HBSC Symptom Checklist to measure junior secondary school students’ psychosomatic complaints in the Chinese Mainland: Rasch-based validation, population-based norm, and n... by Yuhang Zhu, Xianzhu Cong, Zhenliang Qiu, Ricky Jeffrey, Ranran Li, Li Jing, Gaopei Zhu, Xi Yang, Shuang Li, Jinling Wang, Xu Xu, Hongliu Zhu, Xinjian Wang, Ling Huang, Xueqin Sun, Di Wu, Kai Zhang, Xunhong Miao, Rui Wen, Qinglang Huang, Zhuang He, Juan Li, Alina Cosma, Fuyan Shi, Suzhen Wang, the PROSQoL-JSSS research group

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Automatic Recognition of Authors Identity in Persian based on Systemic Functional Grammar by Fatemeh Soltanzadeh, Azadeh Mirzaei, Mohammad Bahrani, Shahram Modarres Khiabani

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