Training, Language and Culture

ISSN 2520-2073 | ISSN 2521-442X

Training, Language and Culture

ISSN 2520-2073 | ISSN 2521-442X

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2026

Volume 10

Volume 10, Issue 2

81
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2026-10-2
Pages: 1–160Contributors: 18Type of Access: Open Access

The contributions in this issue bring together studies in pragmatics, corpus linguistics, multimodal communication, English-medium instruction, EFL learning, intercultural communication, and cognitive linguistics. Although the topics show a range of methods, settings, and materials, the articles have a common interest in language as it is used in social relations, media texts, health information, academic study, advertising, and learner performance. They offer empirical and theoretical work on how linguistic choices, educational settings, and communicative resources are linked with culture, cognition, professional practice, and public communication.

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Address practices in Nigerian English academic discourse: Politeness, relationality and lingua-cultural adaptation

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Lexical competition in Kazakh–Russian bilingual media: A corpus-based quantitative study

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Terminological asymmetry in consumer health Q&A discourse: A corpus-based study of MedQuAD

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Visual–verbal blending in social advertising: Conceptual integration and meaning compression in environmental and humanitarian campaigns

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Intercultural communicative competence in ESP research: A Scientometric Mapping of global trends, theoretical clusters, and pedagogical gaps (2003–2023)

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Disciplinary literacy and English for Academic Purposes in non-Anglophone EMI higher education: A scoping review of methodological trends

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Metaphor comprehension in Arabic-speaking EFL learners: Embodiment types and gender effects

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Goal orientation and intercultural sensitivity in EFL learners: Evidence from psychometric assessment and speaking performance

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Creative Construction Grammar (book review)

Volume 10, Issue 1

81
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2026-10-1
Pages: 1–149Contributors: 18Type of Access: Open Access

The contributions in this issue range over translation, contrastive linguistics, academic writing, language pedagogy, and the use of artificial intelligence in education. Despite this range, the articles maintain sustained attention to how linguistic phenomena appear in situated practice, whether in multilingual communication, classroom interaction, or technologically mediated environments. The contributions maintain a consistent focus on language as it is used, taught, and analysed in concrete settings. They also reflect current developments in the field, including the growing presence of digital environments and data-based research in language study and education. The issue offers material that supports further analytical work on language in diverse communicative settings.

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AI-powered translation of Arabic idioms into English

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Rhetorical moves and metadiscourse in English–Vietnamese literature reviews: Variations in niche construction and authorial positioning

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Phono-lexical similarity between Bahasa Indonesia and Urdu: A corpus-based contrastive analysis study

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How to do things with code: An analytical framework for linguistic inquiry into programming environments

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A Middle East Pronunciation Assessment Framework for higher education: Evidence from Iraq, Oman, and Iran

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Child Language Brokering in educational settings: A bibliometric analysis and scientific mapping

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Multimodal discourse in EFL instruction: Implications for language competence, cognitive engagement, and multimodal literacy

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A Metacognitive-Cultural Model for AI-mediated intercultural learning

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Elgar encyclopaedia of city and place branding (book review)

2025

Volume 9

Volume 9, Issue 4

81
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2025-9-4
Pages: 1–137Contributors: 18Type of Access: Open Access

This issue presents work that stays close to language as it is actually used: in meetings, in classrooms, in research writing, in interviews, and in the informal spaces where learners speak to one another. The studies differ in topic, yet they share a steady interest in how people choose their words when they need to act, explain, justify, or position themselves. Several contributions draw attention to the small devices that steady an utterance or give it a particular colouring; others show how long-established linguistic thinking can sit alongside newer digital tools without losing its footing. Readers who work with spoken or written data – whether as analysts, teachers, or supervisors of student writing – will recognise questions that arise in their own practice. The volume may also appeal to those who prefer studies built on close engagement with real material rather than heavily theorised accounts.

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Structural models of elliptical answers in English-language corporate discourse

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AI tools and cognitive lexicology in language education: A cross-linguistic perspective

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A genre-based model of rhetorical structure in scoping review introductions

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The axiological framework of professional foreign language communication

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(Re)voicing in academic writing: A study of reporting verbs in writing theses in hard sciences

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EFL learners' translanguaging on social media: An interpretative phenomenological study

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Epistemic positioning in reactive discourse: Evidential modality and pragmatics of response

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AI knowledge readiness among university students: A cross-sectional quantitative study

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Intercultural competence and pragmatics (book review)

Volume 9, Issue 3

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Roza A. ValeevaIssue title: Global Perspectives on Language Education: Technology, Motivation, and MultilingualismIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2025-9-3
Pages: 1–132Contributors: 16Type of Access: Open Access

We are pleased to introduce this special issue prepared in collaboration with our guest editor, Dr. Roza A. Valeeva, Professor of Pedagogy at Kazan Federal University and a leading scholar in humanistic education. We thank Dr. Valeeva for her expertise and dedication in compiling this issue. The contributions gathered here reflect the changes currently redefining language education across the world. As classrooms expand outside of their physical boundaries through digital technologies, as learners grapple with their own motivation in ever more complex settings, and as multilingual realities influence policy and practice, researchers are offering fresh evidence and new perspectives. This issue assembles studies that are united by their concern with how language education adapts to these pressures, while each article foregrounds a different aspect of the global conversation.

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AI meets education: How ChatGPT transforms reading skills in Omani EFL learners

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(De)Motivating factors of e-mentoring integration in English academic writing classrooms

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The effects of task-based learning on English reading motivation among vocational college students

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The role of language transfer in Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ comprehension of scope ambiguity in doubly quantified sentences

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A constructivist inquiry into English-Medium Instruction in Moroccan higher education

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Economic and educational benefits of mother tongue and second language use: Evidence from Uzbekistan

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Content-based instruction for psychology majors: Issues and solutions for ESP curriculum development

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Cognitive processing of educational polycode text: An experimental eye-tracking study

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Surviving the induction years of language teaching: The importance of reflective practice (book review)

Volume 9, Issue 2

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Olga V. AleksandrovaIssue title: Pragmatics in Focus: Language Across ContextsIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2025-9-2
Pages: 1–119Contributors: 14Type of Access: Open Access

This special issue was prepared in collaboration with Dr. Prof. Olga V. Aleksandrova, a distinguished Russian linguist and Anglicist. Her expertise in English grammar, cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, and pragmatics greatly enriched the editorial process. We were honoured to work alongside Dr. Aleksandrova and deeply value her insightful guidance throughout the preparation of this issue. This collection brings together eight original contributions that explore the ways language operates in specific cultural and regional contexts. From address forms and kinship systems to hashtags and vehicle naming, the studies reflect a shared commitment to understanding how language – spoken, written, or mediated – expresses local values and group identities. The issue is united by its focus on the everyday pragmatics of language use and the cultural logics that underlie them.

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Addressing a stranger in Algerian Arabic: A sociocultural account

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Lexicography of the Syrian dialect of Arabic: Sources and dictionary

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Metaphorical framing of sad and happy narratives in Jordanian Arabic: A cognitive-discursive perspective

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Kinship terms in Marwari: A sociolinguistic study

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Written vs. cinematic translation: A case study of culture-bound expressions

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A qualitative analysis of body representation in Netflix audio descriptions

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Autonomastics and vehicle semantics: Toward a provisional typology of autonyms in Egyptian Arabic

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Hashtags as pragmatic devices of cultural reproduction in digital discourse

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Elgar encyclopaedia of cross-cultural management (book review)

Volume 9, Issue 1

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2025-9-1
Pages: 1–117Contributors: 17Type of Access: Open Access

This issue brings together a diverse collection of studies that investigate various aspects of language use, communication, and education in different contexts. The articles featured in this edition touch upon translation strategies, pragmatic and sociolinguistic patterns, language preferences in education, teacher anxiety, and the evolution of specialised terminology. Through empirical research and theoretical insights, these studies contribute to the ongoing discourse in applied linguistics, professional communication, and language education.

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Mind vs. machine: Comparative analysis of metaphor-related word translation by human and AI systems

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Cross-cultural study of intensifiers in face-threatening situations: A gender perspective in English and Bahasa Indonesia

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Arab Gulf English majors’ language preferences, use and beliefs across domains

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Academic literacy development and EAP in English medium instruction: A needs-based inquiry at a Bangladeshi private university

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A pragmatic analysis of deictic expressions used in the IELTS speaking test

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To teach is to get nervous: Teacher anxiety as a multifaceted occurrence in pedagogical practices

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The evolution of musical terminology: From specialised to non-professional usage

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Translation methods for movie titles: A case study in Vietnam

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The manual of AI-mediated autonomous teacher development (book review)

2024

Volume 8

Volume 8, Issue 4

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Petar SpalevićIssue title: Educators and Learners: Emerging Roles in Modern Educational ContextsIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2024-8-4
Pages: 1–115Contributors: 20Type of Access: Open Access

This special issue of Training, Language and Culture was prepared with a much appreciated collaboration with Dr. Petar Spalević. The special issue, Educators and Learners: Emerging Roles in Modern Educational Contexts, focuses on innovative approaches, tools, and methodologies that shape the roles of both educators and learners. The issue brings together a diverse array of studies that address pressing challenges and emerging opportunities in contemporary educational contexts, including language learning, technology integration, cultural considerations, and pedagogical innovation.

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Teachers’ personality: A proxy for the group work use?

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Technology for improving students’ communicative skills in the university digital educational environment

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Exploring the use of Kahoot! to monitor learning performance among students in higher education

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Gaps in translation technology education: A case study of Jordanian universities

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Challenges and coping strategies in EMI classrooms: A case study from Pakistan

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Evaluating the impact of short-term Russian language and culture programmes on adult learners

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Design thinking in education: A paradigm shift in language learning

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The potential of IT tools in foreign language acquisition: A comparative assessment

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English for academic purposes: Perspectives on the past, present and future (book review)

Volume 8, Issue 3

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2024-8-3
Pages: 1–113Contributors: 18Type of Access: Open Access

The issue features a diverse collection of articles that explore contemporary challenges and methodologies in language education, translation, and cultural studies. The contributions presented in the issue reflect the ongoing evolution of linguistic and educational research, discussing new perspectives and practical implications across various contexts. The studies focus on the evolving approaches in teaching and communication, exposing the role of technology and discourse strategies in enhancing these fields. Accuracy and consistency, particularly in specialised fields like translation and academic assessment, are addressed as crucial elements for improvement. The articles reflect ongoing developments in educational and linguistic practices, focusing on enhancing pedagogical methods and communication strategies.

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Can e-portfolios improve the students’ attitudes towards English language learning?

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A comparative analysis of terminological inconsistency in scientific translation from English into Arabic across different medical fields

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Examining the e-assessment literacy of Iranian English as a Foreign Language teachers

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Language to contest legitimacy: The acceptability of Qanun Putroe Phang in light of the Acehnese discourse

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Communication monitoring as a politeness mechanism

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Unblocking fluency: The power of pairwork, group discussion, and presentation in boosting speaking skills

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Pragmatic value of noun phrase and verb phrase ellipsis in corporate communication

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Linguistic insights into attitudinal stance in Russian philology thesis reviews

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Red herrings and white elephants: The origins of the phrases we use every day (book review)

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Key questions and inspiring answers in cross- cultural management (book review)

Volume 8, Issue 2

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Vladimir I. KarasikIssue title: Linguistic and Cultural Research: A Multilingual PerspectiveIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2024-8-2
Pages: 1–110Contributors: 16Type of Access: Open Access

The special issue was prepared thanks to the invaluable collaboration of Guest Editor Dr. Vladimir I. Karasik, whose significant contributions enriched the production process and translated into some outstanding outcomes. This collection of articles presents a series of scholarly inquiries that examine the interconnectedness of language and culture across various sociolinguistic contexts. The thematic content of this issue spans several areas, including sentiment analysis, cultural identity, translation studies, and discourse analysis, reflecting the multifaceted nature of linguistic and cultural research.

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Code switching patterns in Kazakh-Russian hybrid language practice: An empirical study

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French medical memes: Themes, language, functions

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Linguo-cultural value of 忍 ‘patience’ in traditional and modern Chinese culture

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Russian culture through the prism of English, Finnish and Japanese languages: Reflections or refractions?

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Empirical application of sentiment analysis and emotions in Spanish: A post-cognitivist approach

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The impact of migration on linguistic and cultural identity: A case study of the Balik tribe

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Framing negative eWOM via conjunctions: The language of customer communication in the luxury hotel sector on social media

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Hikikomori and Sōshokukei-danshi: A semantic analysis of Japan’s social deviants

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My grammar and I (or should that be ‘me’?) (book review)

Volume 8, Issue 1

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2024-8-1
Pages: 1–133Contributors: 14Type of Access: Open Access

This issue incorporates a collection of eight original research articles and one book review that together span a wide range of topics in the fields of language learning, pedagogical innovation, linguistic analysis, and the intersection of language with technology. Each contribution encourages the integration of the findings across disciplines, appealing to a broad audience including educators, linguists, curriculum designers, and policymakers. The articles in this issue collectively expose the importance of interdisciplinary research in addressing complex questions about language acquisition, teaching methodologies, cultural influences on communication, and the role of language studies.

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The use of the iBrainstorm app in a collaborative argumentation-based learning context for developing listening comprehension skills by EFL learners

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A target English needs analysis on ESP course: Exploring medical students’ perceptions of necessities at a Yemeni university

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Spanish as a resource in the acquisition of English as a second language

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Stance expressions in applied linguistics research articles: A corpus-based contrastive study

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Evaluating the BBC’s L2 approach to teaching English consonants online: A digitally oriented pedagogic phonetic analysis

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Power and solidarity in pronominal forms of address: A case study of Chinese and Russian teacher-student interactions

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Teacher practices and student preferences of oral corrective feedback in Indonesian EFL classrooms: A Vygotskian perspective

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The subject and non-subject agreements in the Yemsa relative clauses

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Sounding out semantics: The limits of philosophy (book review)

2023

Volume 7

Volume 7, Issue 4

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Lazar StošićIssue title: Emergent Trends in Language Education: Bridging Tradition and TechnologyIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2023-7-4
Pages: 1–100Contributors: 16Type of Access: Open Access

This special issue was prepared through a much appreciated collaboration with Dr. Lazar Stošić - Doctor of Computer Science, Professor and the President of the Association for the Development of Science, Engineering and Education in Serbia. Dr. Stošić is an expert in scholarly publishing with expertise in editorial workflow management, web technologies, web design, indexing, XML production, SEO, digital marketing, and new media technologies. Dr. Stošić is Editor-in-Chief of WoS and Scopus indexed International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education (IJCRSEE) and the official Crossref Ambassador for Europe. Prepared in collaboration with Dr. Stošić, this issue is a curated collection of articles that serves as a testament to the dynamic intersection where traditional teaching methodologies converge with the transformative impact of technological innovations in the realm of language education.

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Academic writing as sociolinguistic practice: The case of academic writing in foreign language studies

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Current trends in teaching a foreign language in the digital era

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Linguistic landscape as a powerful teaching resource in English for Specific Purposes

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Methodological vector of professional training development of foreign language teachers

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Micro-learning principles in teaching EFL in the structure of supplementary and further education: Andragogical aspect

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Applying the cognitive congruence principle to target language training

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Classical texts in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language: Investigation of a case study of 2018-2023 curriculum

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What can a foreign language textbook for Engineering majors be like? A case of developing and evaluating its sociocultural content

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Trainingsbuch Business English: Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit in internationalen Teams (a review)

Volume 7, Issue 3

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2023-7-3
Pages: 1–110Contributors: 15Type of Access: Open Access

This issue explores a diverse range of topics at the intersection of language, culture, communication, and education to contribute to the ongoing dialogue in the respective areas of inquiry. The research incorporated in this issue contributes a unique perspective to the field of linguistics, communication, and language instruction and will hopefully inspire further exploration and discussion, ultimately benefiting educators, researchers, and language learners alike.

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Probing the relationship among reading anxiety, mindfulness, reflective thinking, and reading comprehension ability of Iraqi intermediate and advanced EFL learners

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(Digital) empathising: (De-)constructing (digital) empathy in foreign language teaching

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English for Specific Purposes: Tailoring English language instruction for history majors

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English dog expressions: Categorisation, structure, attitude, semantic molecules, and translatability into Arabic

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Colombian national anthem as the dialogicity continuum

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Headline complexes in business articles as a means of opinion manipulation

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The impact of presentation skills on Moroccan engineering students’ language abilities

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Academic writing details in critical perspective

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Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for life (a review)

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Introducing stylistic analysis: Practicing the basics (a review)

Volume 7, Issue 2

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editors Dr. Salvador Pons Bordería, Dr. Shima Salameh JiménezIssue title: Professional Communication: Inquiries into Language Across BordersIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2023-7-2
Pages: 1–98Contributors: 16Type of Access: Open Access

This special issue is prepared with a much-appreciated assitance of our Guest Editors Dr. Salvador Pons Bordería and Dr. Shima Salameh Jiménez. The issue examines how language in professional communication is produced through different qualitative and quantitative analyses – semantic, pragmatic, cognitive – and by using novel techniques for data obtention. Results are applied to different languages, such as Russian, English, or Chinese, and show a wide cultural representativity.

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A socio-onomastic study of the 2022 FIFA World Cup football teams’ nicknames

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Metaphor power and language typology: Analysis of correlation on the material of the United Nations Declarations

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How headlines communicate: A functional-pragmatic analysis of small-format texts in English-language mass media

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A corpus analysis of cohesion in World Health Organization speeches by the Director General on Covid-19 vaccination

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To be or not to be critical in academic communication? Pragmatics of evaluative language in Russian academic book reviews

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Manifestations of politeness and power in problem-solving business telephone calls

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American telephone voice: Socio-phonetic features of identity in professional and non-professional discourse

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Language and cognition behind simile construction: A Python-powered corpus research

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Language, power and intercultural communication: The policies and politics of translation (a review)

Volume 7, Issue 1

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2023-7-1
Pages: 1–140Contributors: 16Type of Access: Open Access

The first issue of 2023 offers outstanding studies investigating a broad scope of problems within the realm of checklist-based scoring, programme learning outcomes, the learning of minority languages, supervisors’ theses feedback, identity construction, the challenges of aviation communication, digital politeness in the post-Covid era, and the comparative analysis of the speech act of refusal. The reviews include Teaching English for Tourism: Bridging research and praxis (published by Routledge), and Reconceptualizing English for International Business Contexts: A BELF approach and its educational implications (published by Multilingual Matters).

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Issues of practicality and impact in checklist-based scoring of writing

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Programme Learning Outcomes (PLO) as a measure for academic success in postgraduate studies: A case study of a Malaysian Higher Learning Institution

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Heritage and minority languages, and their learning: A general bibliometric approach and content analysis

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Supervisors’ written feedback on EFL graduate students’ theses: Survey-sourced empirical evidence of best practices

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Identity construction in the UK higher education: How cultural gendered identity is shaped through leadership practice

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Aviation communication challenges and language training development: Perspectives from pilots and air traffic controllers

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Digital politeness in online translator and interpreter training: The lessons of the pandemic

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Mitigation tools and politeness strategies in invitation refusals: American and Russian communicative cultures

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Teaching English for Tourism: Bridging research and praxis (a review)

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Reconceptualising English for International Business Contexts: A BELF approach and its educational implications (a review)

2022

Volume 6

Volume 6, Issue 4

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2022-6-4
Pages: 1–99Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This year’s final issue has gathered some noteworthy research with the studies offering insights into the issues of field-specific terminology, language policy and planning, hospitality education, promotional discourse, language aggression, and in-service teacher training.

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Accounting terminology in English economic discourse (based on India’s The Company Act 2013)

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The changing role of English in Bangladesh

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The effectiveness of flipped classroom in the hospitality education

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Perfection as a concept of hyperbolisation in English promotional discourse: A multi-dimensional linguistic analysis

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Language aggression in virtual professional communities

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This can be made more student-centred: Asynchronous mediation in in-service teacher professional development

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Humble pie and cold turkey: English expressions and their origins (a review)

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Why is this a question? Everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask (a review)

Volume 6, Issue 3

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2022-6-3
Pages: 1–98Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This issue offers multifaceted studies looking into learners’ collocational competence, the teaching of ESP and EFL university courses online, the ways to enhance university reputation, the language of research articles, the problems occurring in translating medical abbreviations and acronyms, and storytelling as an instrument of promoting intercultural communicative competence.

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Croatian EFL learners’ collocational competence: Congruent and incongruent collocations

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Technical, psychological and behavioural aspects of teaching EFL and ESP university courses online: A case study of the 2020-2021 curriculum

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Pondering on the ways to enhance university reputation

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Cross-disciplinary variation in metadiscourse: A corpus-based analysis of Russian-authored research article abstracts

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Inconsistency of translating medical abbreviations and acronyms into the Arabic language

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Challenging intercultural discomforts: Intercultural communicative competence through digital storytelling

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Theoretical and applied perspectives on teaching foreign languages in multilingual settings: Pedagogical implications (a review)

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Reflecting on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume (a review)

Volume 6, Issue 2

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Prof. David CrystalIssue title: Finding Culture in LanguageIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2022-6-2
Pages: 1–85Contributors: 11Type of Access: Open Access

This special issue prepared in a much-anticipated collaboration with the brilliant Prof David Crystal illustrates the complexity as well as the fascination of studying language in relation to culture, and aspires to answer a seemingly simple, yet infinitely challenging question: where is culture to be found?

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Assessing intercultural competence using videotapes: A comparison study of home students’ performance

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Collectivism and individualism in US culture: An analysis of attitudes to group work

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Culture shock and student engagement

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The role of English in intercultural communication: Past, modernity and future global perspectives

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The role and place of foreign languages in Russian culture

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The cultural environment of metaphors: A study of German as a Second/Foreign Language

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Bridge the culture gaps: A toolkit for effective collaboration in the diverse, global workplace (a review)

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Field guide to intercultural research (a review)

Volume 6, Issue 1

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2022-6-1
Pages: 1–95Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

The first issue of 2022 has gathered some comprehensive and illuminating research covering several valid scientific problems, including language research in the academic journals, foreign language speaking anxiety, intercultural awareness and learning, prosodic culturally marked peculiarities of language teachers’ speech behaviour, emotions in written communication, and geographically rmarked Hispanic toponymy.

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Powering the future: Academic journals and language research

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Dealing with foreign language speaking anxiety: What every language teacher should know

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Considering perspectives of others: A case study of intercultural learning among English language learners in Norway

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The role of prosody in expressing culture-specific speech behaviour of language teachers in English

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Communicating recipient’s emotions: Text-triggered interest

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Hispanic toponymy of Western Sahara: Stratigraphic and typological analysis

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McCarthy’s field guide to grammar (a review)

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Reflecting on leadership in language education (a review)

2021

Volume 5

Volume 5, Issue 4

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Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2021-5-4
Pages: 1–102Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This final issue of 2021 discusses some captivating questions in the domain of neurolinguistics, computer-mediated communication, discourse analysis of social media, language policy and planning, cultural contexts, intertextuality, and the strategies and tactics of speech behaviour.

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Walk’n’Talk: Effects of a communicative strategy

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The social media framing of gender pay gap debate in American women’s sport: A linguistic analysis of emotive language

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English and Malay language policy and planning in Malaysia

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Not ‘culture’ as Hofstede assumed, but ‘context’ is the software of the mind: The neuroscience of a dynamic, contextual, and polycultural self

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Precedence-setting tokens: Issues of classification and functional attribution

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Verbalisation of encouragement in contemporary French dialogic discourse

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Language learning environments: Spatial perspectives on second language acquisition (a review)

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Highly irregular: Why tough, through and dough don’t rhyme (a review)

Volume 5, Issue 3

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Ekaterina ProtassovaIssue title: Current Challenges in Language Teaching and Learning: Perspectives, Practices and ProvisionsIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2021-5-3
Pages: 1–106Contributors: 12Type of Access: Open Access

This special issue prepared in collaboration with Guest Editor Dr. Ekaterina Protassova of the University of Helsinki focuses on diverse conditions of language teaching and learning that reflect the leading edge of educational thought in order to promote multilingualism and introduce languages other than English.

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Language learning with physical activity: The case of learning Italian in tourism

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Languages for specific purposes in medicine and healthcare in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: Reflections on usage-based teaching

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Emergency remote teaching and learning in simultaneous interpreting: Capturing experiences of teachers and students

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Teaching simultaneous interpreting: The early stage

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Mixed method in language teaching: Concepts and model’s evaluation

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A look into young learners’ language learning strategies: A Croatian example

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Rethinking language use in digital Africa: Technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa (a review)

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Constructive intercultural management: Integrating cultural differences successfully (a review)

Volume 5, Issue 2

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Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Michael McCarthyIssue title: More than Meets the Eye: A Closer Look at Professional DiscourseIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2021-5-2
Pages: 1–96Contributors: 9Type of Access: Open Access

TLC is proud to present a special issue on the language of professional discourse prepared in collaboration with Guest Editor Dr. Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and author of more than 50 books and 100 academic papers dealing with English language research. All the articles in this issue go beyond the lexico-grammatical scaffolding of their chosen texts and, using different methods and approaches, all explore the symbolic substrata of texts within professional discourses in the domains of politics, marketing, tourism, and socio-cultural media.

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The phenomenon of fascination in political discourse (by Italian examples)

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The role of the cognitive metaphor in the hybridisation of marketing and political discourses: An analysis of English-language political advertising

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The tourist booklet as a genre of professional discourse: Interaction with the customer

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When linguistics meets computer science: Stylometry and professional discourse

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The functional approach, semiotics and professional discourse

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Semantic shift in conflict terminology in contemporary Russian socio-cultural media discourse

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Why study languages? (A review)

Volume 5, Issue 1

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2021-5-1
Pages: 1–106Contributors: 7Type of Access: Open Access

The first issue of 2021 offers academic research helping us to better understand attitudes to organisational culture around the world, the relationship between intercultural communication and national identity, the role of authentic materials in language teaching and learning, the relationship between human translation skills and neural translation machines, the development of pre-service teachers’ digital communication skills and the development of remote teacher training programmes.

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Organisational culture – a fallacy?

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National identity in international education: Revisiting problems of intercultural communication in the global world

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Re-framing conceptual metaphor translation research in the age of neural machine translation: Investigating translators’ added value with products and processes

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Developing pre-service teachers’ digital communication and competences through service learning for bilingual literacy

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Introducing German pre-service teachers to remote teaching: Policy, preparation and perceptions of competence development of future foreign language teachers

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The implementation of authentic language input in second language (L2) teaching: Pedagogical arguments

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Intercultural politeness: Managing relations across cultures (a review)

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The bilingual brain: And what it tells us about the science of language (a review)

2020

Volume 4

Volume 4, Issue 4

61
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2020-4-4
Pages: 1–97Contributors: 9Type of Access: Open Access

The final issue of 2020 broaches some challenging questions in the realm of EFL assessment, applied linguistics, active learning, education for sustainable development, teaching second language to migrant and ethnic minorities, and the lexical composition of contemporary political discourse.

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Standard setting and internal validation of a novel approach adopted for assessing speaking

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Programming for specific purposes in linguistics: A new challenge for the humanitarian curricula

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Towards synergetic combination of traditional and innovative digital teaching and research practices

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Promoting the UN sustainable development goals in teaching, research and democratic urban life: Approaches to lifelong education for sustainable development

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Which competences for whom? Supporting the supporters of work-related L2 development by migrants and ethnic minorities

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The creative potential of contemporary Russian political discourse: From new words to new paradigms

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Peacebuilding in language education: Innovations in theory and practice (a review)

Volume 4, Issue 3

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2020-4-3
Pages: 1–85Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This issue offers insightful research on Arabic, Chinese, Greek, German and English languages and cultures drawing on a diverse range of methodological frameworks and an impressive repertoire of scientific approaches. Another exciting issue featuring new scholarship from Russia, Western Europe and the Middle East, complemented by recent book reviews and, as is customary, our quarterly news report.

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Do Saudi academic women use more feminised speech to describe their professional titles? An evidence from corpus

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Soubriquet nomination as referred to cultural awareness and intercultural competence

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‘Safe’ political discourse: Linguo-cultural and pragma-linguistic perspectives

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Claiming and displaying national identity: A case study of Chinese exchange students in Russia

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Language and the pandemic: The construction of semantic frames in Greek-German comparison

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Language and cognitive science: How language affects reasoning and memory

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Close encounters of a cultural kind: Lessons for business, negotiation and friendship (a review)

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Soft power: The new great game for global dominance (a review)

Volume 4, Issue 2

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2020-4-2
Pages: 1–90Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This issue explores the issues of communication in multicultural classrooms and how to manage them, the ways of overcoming xenoglossophobia, and the challenge of considering local environment as part of the language teaching process. Also, Italy features strongly in this issue with two articles on the terminology used in the Italian tourist and furniture and interior design industries, and the importance of loanwords in organisational naming to ensure more effective international marketing.

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Intercultural communication in multicultural education space

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Anglicisms and loanwords: The contribution of English exemplified by contemporary Italian tourist terminology

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Company naming strategies in the Italian interior design industry

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The fear factor: Xenoglossophobia or how to overcome the anxiety of speaking foreign languages

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Glocalisation in action: ‘Less is More’ English coursebook series

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Managing diversity in the classroom

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Bagels, bumf and buses: A day in the life of the English language (a review)

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Language unlimited: The science behind our most creative power (a review)

Volume 4, Issue 1

62
Issue type: Special Issue, Guest Editor Dr. Robert O'DowdIssue title: Profession-Oriented Research: Educational and Methodological PerspectivesIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2020-4-1
Pages: 1–84Contributors: 9Type of Access: Open Access

The first issue of 2020 is a special one, not only because it bears its own name - Profession-Oriented Research: Educational and Methodological Perspectives - but also because it was prepared by a very special Guest Editor - Dr. Robert O'Dowd whose contribution in putting the issue together cannot be underestimated. Dr. O'Dowd's concise yet overwhelmingly to-the-point Introduction will place things in context for our readers. On the part of the TLC team, we extend our sincere gratitude to Dr. O'Dowd and would like to thank him for his time and effort in making this a truly special issue.

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Profession-oriented training of foreign language teachers in modern conditions

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Teaching academic writing: A shift towards intercultural rhetoric

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Business cultural training in a globalised economy

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Enhancing the development of intercultural communicative competence in business and study environments

2.2kviews

Successful international communication

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The role of toponymic periphrasis in developing professional competence in learning Spanish

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Let’s talk: How English conversation works (a review)

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Your voice speaks volumes: It’s not what you say but how you say it (a review)

2019

Volume 3

Volume 3, Issue 4

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2019-3-4
Pages: 1–74Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This issue will examine an array of problematic areas of study concerned with intercultural competence, virtual exchange, the task-based approach to L2 teaching, language for work, politeness strategies, translation of field-specific terminology from French into Russian, and the language of social media and status messages.

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Teaching intercultural communicative competence through virtual exchange

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Applying a task-based approach to authentic texts: An example of teaching a poem to lower level students of Greek as L2

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Language for work matters

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Politeness strategies in business English discourse

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Translating cheese production terminology from French to Russian: Challenges and pitfalls

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Self-representation through social network status messages: Psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and gender aspects

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Cross-cultural management: With insights from brain science (a review)

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Critical global semiotics: Understanding sustainable transformational citizenship (a review)

Volume 3, Issue 3

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2019-3-3
Pages: 1–115Contributors: 9Type of Access: Open Access

This issue will leave no stone unturned in its search for some inspiring methodological, linguistic and cultural perspectives that will, hopefully, make a valid contribution to the corresponding fields of research.

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The cultural imperative: Global trends in the 21st century

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Understanding African cultures and philosophies

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Can a sociolinguistic perspective of Second Language Acquisition solve ‘the longstanding human curiosity’ of learning languages?

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The linguistic aspect behind the changing attitudes towards ‘globalisation’ and ‘deglobalisation’ of economic processes (a case study of the German print media)

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Intensifying adverbs in the English language

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Grammatical interference in written papers translated by Russian and American students

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Don’t believe a word: The surprising truth about language (a review)

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Because Internet: Understanding the new rules of language (a review)

Volume 3, Issue 2

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2019-3-2
Pages: 1–111Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

The issue will look closely into the intricate nature, pitfalls and difficulties of second language acquisition, as well as address a number of purely linguistic problems within the realm of pragmatics, grammar and discourse studies.

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Neural foundations of creativity in foreign language acquisition

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Narrative and identity in the foreign language classroom: Reflections on symbolic competence

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Writing diplomatically: Managing potential conflict

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Persuasive techniques in advertising

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Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’

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Hedging in different types of discourse

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Dreyer’s English: An utterly correct guide to clarity and style (a review)

4.2kviews

Teaching digital literacy (a review)

Volume 3, Issue 1

61
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2019-3-1
Pages: 1–111Contributors: 11Type of Access: Open Access

The first issue of 2019 will shed light on a number of engaging topics that will hit home with both language researchers and teachers. The underlying theme in our language section has to do primarily with style and everything it takes to make various institutional discourses productive, targeted and explicit.

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Euphemisms in advertising discourse: Putting on a positive face and maintaining speech etiquette

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Art discourse revisited: Linguocultural specifics of childhood-related art tokens

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Cognitive and pragmatic approach to using stylistic devices in English literary discourse

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Questioning practice in the EFL classroom

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Cross-cultural pragmatic failure

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Some aspects of the role of interpreters in investigative interviews

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Between turn and sequence: Turn-initial particles across languages (a review)

2018

Volume 2

Volume 2, Issue 4

64
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2018-2-4
Pages: 1–113Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

This final issue of the passing year has drawn together a set of diverse research with studies ranging from teaching languages in emerging economies to the use of interjections by British royal family members. The former subject has obviously become one of the central concerns in both practical and scholarly terms as developing countries worldwide are struggling to overcome educational obstacles and provide for language learning.

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English for the underserved: Closing the digital divide

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Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic

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The defeat of radical singularism in Russian, English and French literature

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Developing creative writing skills in a high school ESL classroom

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The role of cultural scripts in non-native speech generation

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Interjections in the speech of British royal family members

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First you write a sentence: The elements of reading, writing... and life (a review)

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It’s all Greek: Borrowed words and their histories (a review)

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Have you eaten grandma? (A reivew)

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Multilingual computer assisted language learning (a review)

Volume 2, Issue 3

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2018-2-3
Pages: 1–108Contributors: 12Type of Access: Open Access

In this issue, the crux of the matter has to do mostly with one of the key political, economic and sociocultural issues of today – the so-called refugee crisis and the corresponding issues faced by numerous communities across the globe. As multiculturalism continues to advocate equal respect to the various cultures in a society and promote the maintenance of cultural diversity, the matters of language learning and teaching come to the forefront highlighting the need for initiatives to support children and adult education in the context of the ever-shifting geopolitical developments.

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Multilingualism language policy in the EU today: A paradigm shift in language education

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Fostering foreign language acquisition in young refugees using mobile devices: The YouRNI project experience

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Teaching and learning in a multi-cultural school in Thessaloniki: A case study

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Translation as a subject of theoretical text analysis

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Some basic challenges and strategies in teaching translation to Chemistry majors

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Strategic implementation of verbs of communication in English business discourse

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Spirituality and English language teaching: Religious explorations of teacher identity, pedagogy and context (a review)

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Breaking news: The remaking of journalism and why it matters now (a review)

Volume 2, Issue 2

64
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2018-2-2
Pages: 1–116Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

In such an uncertain world of political tension and complex social relations, how are linguists and cultural specialists to interpret it using language? Do we state the truth as we see it, modify it, avoid it or falsify it? In search for the answer, we have chosen George Carlin as our cover quotation this month, for a lot of language is about manipulating opinion and maybe avoiding the truth. Many of the articles this issue address this area of different uses of language.

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Teaching intercultural competence in undergraduate business and management studies

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Minitexts of poetic titles as markers of the English cognitive paradigm

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Vague language as a means of avoiding controversy

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Persuasion strategy in online social advertising

3.1kviews

EU immigration in the British press: How was immigration reported immediately prior to the EU referendum?

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Classification of English loanwords in Business Spanish

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Intercultural communication: An interdisciplinary approach. When neurons, genes and evolution joined the discourse (a review)

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Language, education and neoliberalism: Critical studies in Sociolinguistics (a review)

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Post-truth (a review)

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Taking Chinese to the world: Language, culture and identity in Confucius Institute teachers (a review)

Volume 2, Issue 1

64
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2018-2-1
Pages: 1–116Contributors: 10Type of Access: Open Access

The issue covers a set of issues dealing with integration examination in Russia, teaching translation, poetry and diplomacy, free indirect speech in author’s translation, and foreign language education in Greece.

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Integration examination in the Russian Federation. Three years of experience and research: Success or failure?

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The teacher’s sense of plausibility

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Selecting a translation equivalent: Factors to consider in the classroom

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Poetry and diplomacy: Telling it slant

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Free indirect speech as a means to introduce archaic style into the author’s narration: A Russian linguistics perspective

2.7kviews

Made in Greece: PALSO Federation and foreign language education in Greece

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How language began (a review)

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Diplomatic protocol: Etiquette, statecraft and trust (a review)

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Making sense: The glamorous history of English grammar (a review)

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One kiss or two: In search of the perfect greeting (a review)

2017

Volume 1

Volume 1, Issue 4

63
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2017-1-4
Pages: 1–114Contributors: 11Type of Access: Open Access

The issue presents a varied review of the academic field of language, culture and literature. The key theme this issue is alternative approaches to education with articles on internationalising the classroom through Virtual Exchange, on how a different font type and colour can help or hinder reading fluency, and a challenging article on how ICT can be used to motivate Generation Z students to learn more effectively.

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Virtual exchange and internationalising the classroom

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Teaching Generation Z: Methodological problems and their possible solutions

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Contrast and font affect reading speeds of adolescents with and without a need for language-based learning support

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Gender literature: How much is it underpinned by authors’ private lives?

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An acoustic analysis of the production of word-initial stop /p/ by late Arab bilinguals

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Phrasal verbs as learning material in Business English courses for students majoring in Linguistics

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From principles to practice in education for intercultural citizenship (a review)

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Do I make myself clear? Why writing well matters (a review)

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The Bonjour Effect: The secret codes of French conversation revealed (a review)

Volume 1, Issue 3

63
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2017-1-3
Pages: 1–121Contributors: 8Type of Access: Open Access

The issue considers an array of problems concerning metacommunication, the development of Business English skills, teaching negotiation, English-Chinese comparative morphology, and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium.

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Interconnectivity and metacommunication

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Developing Business English skills using case studies in multilevel education

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Teaching negotiation in a globalised world: Benefits of a genre approach

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Typological differences in morphemic-syllabic word structure in English and Chinese

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English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium

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Sappho’s missed communications

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Digital language learning and teaching: Research, theory and practice (a review)

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Enough said: What’s gone wrong with the language of politics? (A review)

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English for diplomatic purposes (a review)

Volume 1, Issue 2

63
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2017-1-2
Pages: 1–118Contributors: 8Type of Access: Open Access

This issue presents a notable range of research including analysis of language corpora and their value and limitations in describing changes in language usage; analysis of the characteristics of semantic fields based on an international experiment recognising names of common birds; why it is that in the early stages little girls may be better at language learning than little boys; why the teaching of cultural differences, particularly as expressed through non-verbal communication, is essential to the successful teaching of international business communication; and how the French business press is making increasing use of British and American expressions despite the sometime resistance of the French language establishment.

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Usage on the move: Evolution and re-volution

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Developing students’ socio-cultural competence in foreign language classes

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Early gender diversity in reading and writing: Research and didactical consequences

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Psycholinguistic analysis of lexical-semantic structure in linguistic consciousness of Russian, English and German native speakers

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Teaching English in China: Changing self-perception

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Linguistic and functional cognitive peculiarities of media language as the basis of interpretations in the communicative sphere

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Modern English grammar: Morphology and syntax (a review)

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Why English? Confronting the Hydra (a review)

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Language ideology, policy and planning in Peru (a review)

Volume 1, Issue 1

62
Issue type: Regular IssueIssue title: NoneIssue DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2017-1-1
Pages: 1–118Contributors: 11Type of Access: Open Access

The inaugural issue features an article by Professor David Crystal on the need for an online cultural dictionary and other notable research that will hopefully interest a vast array of researchers and practitioners.

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My priority for the next 50 years: An online cultural dictionary

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Communicative strategies and tactics of speech manipulation in intercultural business discourse

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Automated Speech Recognition in language learning: Potential models, benefits and impact

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Minitexts in modern educational discourse: Functions and trends

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An analysis of two evaluative models for a university MA English for Communication course

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Dynamic changes in modern English discourse

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Teaching English literature / Shorties: Flash fiction in English language teaching (a review)

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Gift of the gab: How eloquence works (a review)






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