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Attitudes towards accents in the United Kingdom: a sociophonetic analysis
(2022-03-07)
The United Kingdom is widely known for having a large number of accents, but what is the social attitude towards them? In order to answer this question, we need to analyse the importance of accents on identity. Accents ...
Linguistic taboos and swear words in EFL learning and teaching: an empirical study
(2022-03-08)
A taboo word is a word that should be avoided because it is considered to be wrong, embarrassing or unpleasant (Cambridge Dictionary, n.d.). A swear word is a word that is also considered rude and offensive according to ...
English neologisms in modern times
(2022-03-07)
The study on neologisms or the new words created in a language has been gaining strength lately and has been getting the attention of linguists. It is obvious that neologisms produce a feeling of curiosity since they ...
Teacher motivation and demotivation in foreign language learning classrooms
(2022-03-08)
Although insufficient importance has been given to teacher motivation in the literature, there has recently been a growing interest in and recognition of it. This paper aims to define motivation and demotivation in teachers ...
Foreign language anxiety in the Basque Country: a comparison of high school and university students
(2022-03-07)
Anxiety has been widely studied in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), as it is one of the main obstacles that students have to overcome in their language learning process. This paper presents an explanation ...
Twitter sentiment analysis and stock market movements: U.S. elections 2020
(2022-02-02)
[ENG] The aim of this work is to analyze if there is a relationship between general twitter political sentiment and the movements of the stock market, more precisely, the American indexes S&P 500, DJIA and Nasdaq Composite. ...
Benefits of physical exercise programmes on the health of individuals with Down syndrome: a systematic review
(2022-04-13)
[EN] Background: Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. Physical inactivity increases the risk of incidence of cardiovascular diseases, obesity and type II diabetes in individuals ...
Grammar learning strategies in Primary School Children
(2022-03-07)
The field of Language Learning Strategies (LLS) is a well-researched topic in
language acquisition. The importance of LLSs is highlighted in Chamot’s (2001)
definition, in which LLSs are defined as the “techniques or ...