Cultures and Languages
Vernacular Languages and Cultures in Rural Development: Theoretical Discourse and Some Examples
... antagonism is very strong. The environment, especially the forests, becomes the easiest victim. For example, the conflict between farmers and nomads, which has become the conflict between various ethnic groups, and has ...
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Between Languages and Cultures: Arabic into English Transliteration in English Travel Literature
... Transliteration is the only effective technique in rendering into English some Arabic names of persons and places, for example Oliphant uses transliteration for the names of some places such as Moab, Ain el Ghazal, and ...
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The impact of school structures and cultures on change in teaching and learning : the case of languages
... school cultures to facilitate change ...to Languages, it was the Language teachers who ultimately drove the curriculum ...as Languages is an area often perceived as having less status in the ...
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Bilingual Education in Colombia: Towards a Recognition of Languages, Cultures and Identities
... This discussion has centred on the relationship of bilingual education and the construction of a more tolerant society in Colombia. I have argued that restricting the notion of `bilingualism` to Spanish/English ...
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Toward a Typology of Ranking Elements of Narrative Discourse in Languages and Cultures: A Cross-Linguistic Survey
... to languages, cultures, and individuals within those cultures, the lack of inclusion of narrative discourse in language descriptions represents a major gap in the information available about many of ...
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Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture
... MARILENA THANASSOULA has studied German Language and Literature at the University of Athens, and continued her studies in Cologne, Germany, focussing on African languages and cultures.. [r] ...
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‘A voice from elsewhere’: acculturation, personality and migrants’ self perceptions across languages and cultures
... Still evoking the idea of a combination of different selves, she explained that: “The two languages…they compensate in myself. English is the functionality of my daily life, the pragmatic part of myself and ...
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Representing Verbal Semantics with Diagrams An Adaptation of the UML for Lexical Semantics
... The UER is the first linguistic representa- tional framework that explicitly accounts for meta- concepts, rendering them graphically and thus fun- damentally different from their contents, and dis- playing different ...
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Indigenous and immigrant languages in Australia
... indigenous languages was problematic for children’s English language ...indigenous languages and English in bilingual programs as one of conflict, with the indigenous language undermining or threatening the ...
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The Importance of Multiculturalism in Community InterpretingCoskun DOGAN
... It is used in the intercultural communication needs arising from the bureaucratic processes encountered by immigrants in the social life in the heavily immigrant countries (such as Scandinavian countries, European ...
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Social capital: a vital ingredient for retaining foreign language teachers
... of Languages and Cultures (Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations 2005), which serve as a guide to assist foreign language teachers ‘to understand and develop their own practice’ ...
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Conducting Qualitative Content Analysis Across Languages and Cultures
... Conducting a qualitative content analysis (QCA) in more than one language and cultural context is a challenging endeavor. When researchers want to examine and understand a phenomenon in more than one country, they need ...
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University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository
... This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository.. It has been accepted for inclusi[r] ...
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A good practice guide for translating and adapting hearing-related questionnaires for different languages and cultures
... (iii) Are those constructs and how they are sampled comparable across source and target countries? Investigators should be reassured that the concept of interest (and any associated subscale domains) is both conceptually ...
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... Mexican cultures, we can say there is a probability that individuals develop feelings of belongingness towards both ...different cultures, and introspect about what is important to them” (Devos, 2006, ...
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Cultural Studies as a Didactic Means of Improving Intercultural Language Education
... learning languages & other Humanities in the context of dialogue of cultures and civilisations, creating didactically appropriate educational space and problem-oriented learning ...
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Investigating the Influence of Bilingual MWU on Trainee Translation Quality
... Investigating the Influence of Bilingual Multiword Units on Trainee Translation Quality Yu Yuan? ?, Serge Sharoff? ? School of Languages & Cultures, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technol[.] ...
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Chinese English in as lingua franca in global business setting: A case study of ongoing emails of a foreign company in China
... first languages” (Seidlhofer, 2001, ...other languages from different cultures, who further classified the English-using world into Three Circles: the Inner Circle where English is spoken as the ...
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A Comparative and Contrastive Study on the Meaning Extension of Color Terms in Persian and English
... different cultures of Arabic and English and the way both languages are similar and different for each color term, Hasan Al-Sammerai, and Kadir (2011) focused on the use of colors throughout the Arabic and ...
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E-GOVERNANCE: A CHALLENGE FOR INDIA
... i) Different Language: India is a country where people with different cultures and different religions live. People belonging to different states speak different languages. The diversity of people in ...
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