this paper was aimed at investigating the persian-speaking translation trainees perception of politeness of english request strategies. they judged the strategies for requesting (e.g. can, could, will, do, etc.) using the paired comparison method. the findings showed great divergence between the judgment of english native speakers with respect to the degree of politeness of 14 generic request s...

The current study examines Theory of Mind (ToM) development in English-speaking ethnically Chinese 3to 6-year-old children raised in Singapore, a country influenced by both eastern and western cultures. All tasks were administered in English. Study 1 investigated the vertical development of ToM in 3to 6-year-olds (N = 65) with five tasks, including diverse desires, diverse beliefs, knowledge ac...

Cued retrieval of memory is typically examined with delay when testing hippocampal functions, as in delayed matching-to-sample tasks. Equally emphasized in the literature, on the other hand, is the hippocampal involvement in making arbitrary associations. Paired associate memory tasks are widely used for examining this function. However, the two variables (i.e., delay and paired association) we...

the present study was conducted to compare the effect of individual and group pre-task planning on efl learners’ accuracy and complexity in speaking. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 60 intermediate female learners at the first grade of high school were chosen by means of a sample preliminary english test (pet) and randomly divided into two experimental groups of 30 students; the individual...

Speaking and writing are the productive skills of language and share similar components. In other words, writing and speaking are clearly related activities, but the modes of production are different. In addition, among a number of personality variables in predicting English language proficiency, extraversion/introversion has been extensively studied. This quasi-experimental study aims at explo...

In this study, we test whether children whose culture lacks counting words and counting practices, use a spatial strategy to support enumeration tasks. Children from two indigenous communities in Australia whose native and only language (Warlpiri or Anindilyakwa) lacked counting words, were tested on classical number development tasks, and the results compared with children reared in an English...

The bilingual voice: Vocal characteristics when speaking two languages across speech tasks Binna Lee & Diana Van Lancker Sidtis To cite this article: Binna Lee & Diana Van Lancker Sidtis (2017): The bilingual voice: Vocal characteristics when speaking two languages across speech tasks, Speech, Language and Hearing, DOI: 10.1080/2050571X.2016.1273572 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...

This study aims to explore whether there is a significant improvement in preservice teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) after implementing hybrid presentation and teaching simulation as one of the tasks Teaching Methods Conventional Media course. also reports students’ responses implementation simulation. In this quantitative study, knowledge was measured using TPACK s...