Cross-Linguistic Influences of Learning German in Finnish and German Upper Secondary Schools by Esa M. Penttinen, Heiner Böttger

“…The aim of this study is to find out what importance upper secondary school learners of German attach to the cross-linguistic influence (CLI) regarding specific aspects of German language learning in Finland and Germany. Cross-linguistic learning gives learners additional skills to learn and understand structures and words in their mother tongue, a second language or a foreign language. …”
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I.G. Tyulin Scientific Library by M. V. Reshetnikova

“…This has considerably enriched the book collection, as the Institute of Oriental led his chronicle of the Lazarev School of Oriental Languages, founded in 1815 and features a wonderful book collection. …”
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A Meta-Analysis of Use of Serious Games in Education over a Decade by Yu Zhonggen

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Cheshm ‘eye’ Expressions in Persian: A Different Perspective by Muhammad Salehi

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Interagir avec la « machine » à l’ère du numérique : des représentations des étudiants à l’évaluation de leur performance académique en anglais by Cédric Brudermann

“…While technology-mediated language learning environments seek to make second language (L2) learners autonomous (as far as possible) in their L2 practices, they paradoxically place them at the center of complex interactions with three external factors which may cause anxiety symptoms: the human–computer interface, the online learning experience and the L2 itself.In this respect, in order to further explore the impact of these variables on the learners’ L2 performance in a technology-mediated language learning environment, an exploratory study was conducted during the academic year 2014-2015 among a group of 250 first year STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students who were enrolled in an English as a foreign language guided autonomy learning pathway (B1 proficiency level). …”
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Does the instructional approach really matter? A comparative study of the impact of online and in-person instruction on learner engagement by Zhiyong Li, Zonglin Dai, Jiaying Li, Pengju Guan

“…The study is based on 168 learners in China who attended online and in-person English as a foreign language (EFL) course, respectively, across two semesters. …”
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Exploring the efficacy of writing comics as a tool for enhancing EFL writing skills of undergraduate Ecuadorian polytechnic students by Felix Estrella

“…Purpose – This paper aims to identify the effectiveness, student perceptions and impacts of integrating comics into the English as a foreign language (EFL) writing curriculum for undergraduate Ecuadorian polytechnic students. …”
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A virtual-reality (VR) cognitive pupillometry analysis of auditory and visual phonemic awareness tasks involving ‘th’ sound variations by Mohsen Mahmoudi-Dehaki, Nasim Nasr-Esfahani

“…Rooted in the Cognitive Load (CL) and Dual Coding theories, this sequential explanatory study examined the CL levels experienced by 36 available Iranian pre-intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in auditory and visual Phonemic Awareness Tasks (PATs). …”
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Young beginning learners’ vocabulary learning via input and output tasks: The role of working memory by Mark Feng Teng

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Unpacking Meaningful Grammar Feedback: An Analysis of EFL Student Teachers’ Feedback Preferences and Learning Moments by Michel Cabot

“…Writing research has acknowledged the value of formative grammar feedback in English-as-a-foreign-language teacher writing education. …”
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Overlap or breakthrough? exploration of the academic buoyancy structure in Chinese EFL learners. by Tao Zeng, Ke Zhong, Wanting Wang

“…This study seeks to bridge this gap by investigating academic buoyancy within the realm of foreign language learning, specifically among university students in mainland China studying English as a foreign language (EFL). …”
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Vladimir Nabokov, un exemple d’aliénation créatrice by Marie Bouchet

“…Maybe because he “did not think in any language, but in images”, his condition as a foreigner was not felt as alienating. …”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…Consequently, alongside original Lithuanian terminology, a considerable number of translated terms, calques, and foreign language influences emerged, leading to synonymy issues. …”
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Using the HBSC Symptom Checklist to measure junior secondary school students’ psychosomatic complaints in the Chinese Mainland: Rasch-based validation, population-based norm, and n... by Yuhang Zhu, Xianzhu Cong, Zhenliang Qiu, Ricky Jeffrey, Ranran Li, Li Jing, Gaopei Zhu, Xi Yang, Shuang Li, Jinling Wang, Xu Xu, Hongliu Zhu, Xinjian Wang, Ling Huang, Xueqin Sun, Di Wu, Kai Zhang, Xunhong Miao, Rui Wen, Qinglang Huang, Zhuang He, Juan Li, Alina Cosma, Fuyan Shi, Suzhen Wang, the PROSQoL-JSSS research group

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Automatic Recognition of Authors Identity in Persian based on Systemic Functional Grammar by Fatemeh Soltanzadeh, Azadeh Mirzaei, Mohammad Bahrani, Shahram Modarres Khiabani

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