Behavioural and neuroscientific research has provided evidence for a strong functional link between the neural motor system and lexical-semantic processing of action-related language. It remains unclear, however, whether the impact of motor actions is restricted to online language comprehension or whether sensorimotor codes are also important in the formation and consolidation of persisting mem...

What are the precise brain regions supporting the short-term retention of verbal information? A previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study suggested that they may be topographically variable across individuals, occurring, in most, in regions posterior to prefrontal cortex (PFC), and that detection of these regions may be best suited to a single-subject (SS) approach to fMRI ana...

  This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency...

Based on a prior study by Zubenko and Shwedel (2019), the present investigated possible effects of repetition (repeated exposure) incidental acquisition retention 120 English target words 51 Ukrainian-speaking ESL learners at Ukrainian university. The hypothesis was that regular vocabulary while listening would have significant positive effect students’ performance. paper examines results imple...

Writing thesis is a process of constant interaction between the student and academic advisor, but writing correctly is a complex task for students even if they have the support of a teacher. The elaboration of the thesis document requires the implementation of a methodology and procedures, which constitute the elements of the format and structure in the thesis. This work shows an intelligent tu...

Guiding students on writing is a hard and time consuming chore for advisors, since requires several iterations before achieving an acceptable level. Normally, when advising students close to graduation, most questions are about the structure of the thesis project. Issues such as the correct wording or abuse of certain terms within a title, problem statement, objectives and justification become ...