*Correspondence: Fabrizio Consorti , Department of Surgical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, Rome 00161, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Distance learning is used in medical education, even if some recent meta-analyses indicated that it is no more effective than traditional methods. To exploit the technological capabilities, adaptive distance learning sy...

Routine formulae are significant linguistic phenomena in the areas of foreign language teaching and bilingual lexicography. Nevertheless, few contrastive analysis these units exist for German-Italian pair. The aim this paper is a pragmalinguistic ‘wishing formulas’. main criterion contrasting pragmatic value units, i.e. speech acts that can be performed through them, as well situational socioli...

Learners of lexical tone languages (e.g., Mandarin) develop sensitivity to tonal contrasts and recognize pitch-matched, but not pitch-mismatched, familiar words by 11 months. Learners of non-tone languages (e.g., English) also show a tendency to treat pitch patterns as lexically contrastive up to about 18 months. In this study, we examined if this early-developing capacity to lexically encode p...

Successful language comprehension often requires comprehenders to infer contrastive focus alternatives, but the mechanisms used to establish contrastive alternatives are still poorly understood. We propose that comprehenders establish contrastive alternatives by using selection mechanisms that distinguish contrastive from non-contrastive candidates. To examine this proposal, we investigated the...

Contrastive  analysis  of  hypothesis  is  the  comparison  of  the linguistic system of two or more languages and it is based on the main difficulties in  learning  a  new  language  that  caused  by  interference  from  the  first  language. The present study intended to investigate the effect of contrastive analysis on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2 adjectives. The questi...

1. Introduction Our study is concerned with the identification of 'difficult' structures in the acquisition of a foreign language, which will shed light on theoretical considerations of L2 processing. We argue that – compared to simple vocabulary items or abstract syntactic patterns – structures that contain lexical material as well as categorial variables are especially difficult to acquire. T...

Successful communication in English as a foreign language depends primarily on the amount of vocabulary learned, which ensures speech appropriateness particular communicative situation and adequate perception information. The article reveals conditions for forming future teachers’ lexical competence Ukrainian higher pedagogical education institutions example denoting coronalogisms. summative st...