O objetivo desta investigação é propor um quadro teórico-prático para determinar o perfil das competências de literacia académica bilingue (Português/Inglês) dos graduandos e futuros profissionais em ensino da língua inglesa no Instituto Superior de Ciências de Educação da Huíla…
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This thesis begins with the observation that portions of words may be separated out and interpreted across a distance, as illustrated by the following examples: (1) These text tiers had boundaries that corresponded with the onset and offset of pre- and post-boundary syllables as…
Complex networks appear everywhere in the world. They describe everything from the Internet and transport networks to neuronal networks and social networks. Characterising these networks, that is, describing them quantitatively, is vitally important to understanding them, compar…
The idea that Canada consists of “two solitudes” (MacLennan, 1945), according to which the two dominant (English and French) linguistic groups live in separate worlds with little interaction or communication, has also received attention in sociolinguistic circles (e.g. Heller, 1…
Intercultural Sensitivity (IS) is defined as the ability to act in a flexible manner towards foreign cultures, and in language teaching it refers to developing learners as intercultural speakers who are able to engage with other cultures and avoiding stereotypes. Despite the emp…
This thesis explores the universal theme of love, as analyzed by C.S. Lewis in his classical essay The Four Loves. In the course of this literary quest, selected literary works of four laureates of Nobel Prize in literature — Half a Life and Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul, Beloved …
This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850–…
This dissertation investigates changes in contemporary written English in Singapore from 1993 to 2016. It is based on a Singapore English Newspaper (SEN) corpus compiled from local news articles at three temporal points and focuses mainly on grammar. One of the first diachronic …
English is the most widely spoken language in the world, and many higher education institutes (HEIs) in the global South have prioritised English language education (ELE). In Colombia, the context of this study, English has become the de facto foreign language in Colombian highe…
The present study attempted to understand how the backgrounds and current experiences of a number of Saudi Arabian EFL professionals in graduate school in the United States have influenced their English literacy development. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain the …
Sexism and sex role stereotyping as reflected in the content of textbooks have been an important issue for studies that aim at raising individual and institutional awareness of sex roles stereotypes. The purpose of this study was to examine gender representations in 12 th grade …
This qualitative inquiry attempts to understand and interpret the characteristics of English as a school discipline in post-independence India. Three separate but interrelated strands--pedagogic materials, classroom methods and teachers' beliefs and perceptions--are investigated…
This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that some of the items included in Form 1, Stage II of the Canadian Language Benchmarks Assessment (CLBA) reading subtest favour certain cultural groups whose first language orthographies differ markedly. It was posited that Manda…
This study investigates how Islam is covered by English-language Egyptian media. In past research, Arab media scholars have noted that Arab media, examined as a whole, is problematic to draw any sort of conclusions from because of its complex nature. It is more effective to look…