Researchers from Mid Sweden University and Kalmar University organised surveys on reading skills in Swedish municipalities. This paper will focus on the surveys made in four municipalities between 2002 and 2007. All students in grade 8 in these four municipalities participated in the surveys—in total 16,287 students. These surveys included a reading test for the students and information about t...

russian language, with regard to its grammar, is a language with its own special complexities, hardly found in other languages. although languages are different from each other, they have some similarities as well. the iranian learner, while learning russian, analyzes the sentences using patterns similar to his/ her native language patterns. occasionally, such native patterns cause the learner ...

this study was conducted to identify and compare the strategies applied by two native farsi translators in rendering the culture specific items (csis) of a literary text titled savushun in their english translations. in this study, csis refer to the materials, social customs, religious concepts, and traditions available in one language and culture but nonexistent in the other language and cultu...

The paper focuses on requests in written forms, where we describe a novel approach to computational modelling of specific features of politeness in speech act of requesting. We examine the similarities and differences in the use of specific social and expressive factors in two languages (mother tongue and a foreign language). The requests collected from different social situations among student...

Corresponding author: Yves Bestgen, PSP/PSOR Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique Tel: (+32) 10 473005 Fax: (+32) 10 473774 [email protected] ABSTRACT Signaling the structure of a discourse using linguistic devices is at least as important in second language production as in one’s mother tongue. Still, very little is known about the difficulties second languag...