Przeglądaj Research in Language (2015) vol.13 nr 3 według tytułu
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Establishing the Fluency Gap Between Native and Non-Native-Speech
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)Although various dimensions of speech fluency have so far generated a great deal of research interest, very few accounts have tackled the issue of the relationship between L1 and L2 fluency. Also, little empirical evidence ... -
Phonetic Notation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Potential Advantages and Learners’ Views
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper focuses on the use of phonetic notation in foreign language teaching and learning. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, we review some of the potential advantages that the use of phonetic notation seems to ... -
Phrase Frames in English Pharmaceutical Discourse: A Corpus-Driven Study of Intradisciplinary Register Variation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)Focusing on the exploration of intra-disciplinary register variation in the pharmaceutical domain, this corpus-driven study attempts to describe the use, composition and discourse functions of phrase frames, that is, ... -
The Role of Curriculum Design and Teaching Materials in Pronunciation Learning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper aims to provide insights into the role of curriculum design and teaching materials in the development of English pronunciation skills in EFL contexts. One of the main contextual factors negatively affecting the ... -
Topic- and Mode-Sensitive Interaction Strategies: Functions of Ellipsis in Oral Communication
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)In this article, we discuss ellipsis as an interactive strategy by analysing the author’s textchat corpus and the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca. It is found that there were fewer repetitions in the textchat ... -
Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-03-10)This paper examines the vowel system of present day Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) or Kristang, based on recordings from interviews with five female native speakers of MPC. A total of 1083 monophthongs were extracted from ...