Little known beyond the Russian speaking world, The Story of Wanderings is a dark fantasy film produced in late period Soviet cinema. was classified as children’s by director, critics, and state. Produced Mosfilm, third oldest most influential studio Russia, it rare example horror, featuring several death scenes personified plague. Death’s presence stands contrast to idealised pioneers self-sac...

Learning from experience is a central physiological and theoretical idea in adult language learning which has become increasingly important in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and is closely connected to task-based language teaching (TBLT). Accordingly, this study was designed to investigate the role of experience-based learning strategies in developing male and female intermediat...

This study presents the first experimental evidence that singing can facilitate short-term paired-associate phrase learning in an unfamiliar language (Hungarian). Sixty adult participants were randomly assigned to one of three "listen-and-repeat" learning conditions: speaking, rhythmic speaking, or singing. Participants in the singing condition showed superior overall performance on a collectio...

Mandarin lexical tones are modified in both infant-directed speech (IDS) and Lombard speech, resulting in tone hyperarticulation. However, it is unclear if these registers also alter contextual tones (neutral tone and tone sandhi) and if such phonetic modification might affect acquisition of these tones. This study therefore examined how neutral tone and tone sandhi are realized in IDS, and how...

This paper reflects on the role of philosophy in school environment, paying special attention to promise intergenerational dialogue carried forward by programmes associated with Lipman’s Philosophy for Children (P4C) curriculum and its current transformation into (PwC). There are two basic ideas that constitute guiding thread my reflections. Firstly, philosophical interventions kind challenge a...

This study investigated the acquisition of grammatical aspect by Iranian EFL learners. The main question addressed in this study was whether Iranian EFL learners could distinguish conditions under which they must use either the perfective aspect  or imperfective aspect. A group of 110 adult, Persian-Speaking learners of English both at BA and MA levels Took a Michigan test based on which they w...

Research on the acoustic characteristics of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) in North American English indicates that it is generally higher-pitched than Adult (ADS) and has unique prosodic characteristics, which commonly found across many spoken languages. However, very little research addressed another important aspect prosody: voice quality. In current study, 25 English-speaking mothers from Can...