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Use of Segmental and Prosodic Cues in Adult Language Discrimination: Effects of Language Experience and Speaking Style
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Comparing the Effect of Two Extensive Reading Treatments on Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge
Get PDFThe aim of this quasi-experimental study is to investigate the effect of extensive
reading (ER) on Japanese L1 learners’ receptive knowledge of high frequency
English vocabulary. This study adds to existing research into the impact of ER on
lexical acquisition by comparing two groups who did ER for different lengths of time,
and utilising a validated testing tool as part of the assessment. The vocabulary
knowledge of participants (N = 78) was pre- and post-tested using the Vocabulary
Levels Test. Group 1 did ER for ten weeks and studied abroad for six weeks; Group 2
did ER for 30 weeks and did not study abroad. A Mann-Whitney test found no
statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of vocabulary gains. A
small effect was found for the number of words read and vocabulary gains for Group
2. These results suggest there is no difference in high frequency vocabulary gains
between the students who did extensive reading over a longer period, and those who
did ER for a shorter period and studied abroad. Another important finding was that
the learning gains were small in comparison to other published ER studies. Possible
explanations for the small gains, and limitations, are discussed.departmental bulletin pape
“How to do words with things”: on Dawn Raffel’s The Secret Life of Objects
Get PDFThis article offers a reading of contemporary American writer Dawn
Raffel’s memoir entitled The Secret Life of Objects, published by Jade Ibis
Press in 2012, focusing on the affective, mnemonic, narrative and symbolic
significances that it attaches to objects. My reading seeks to embed Raffel’s
book in a larger reflection on the meanings of objects in literature and more
generally in art, and the ways in which they function as extensions of the self
and connectors between people, generations and time periods. The article
draws on the history of objects in art in order to understand the specificity
of Raffel’s approach. Surrealism appears as an important landmark due its
promotion of the banal object to the status of carrier of tremendous symbolic
meaning. Raffel is remotely indebted to the Surrealist celebration of objects,
but her focus is on the affective and social dimension that characterizes
our relationship with certain objects and on the role the latter play in the
construction of identity and memory. Personal identities and histories
are seen as intertwined with and inferable from the familiar objects that
surround us. The object appears as a “psychic mediator” (Tisseron) that
stimulates reminiscence and storytelling. The title of the article (an inversion
of Austin’s well-known How to Do Things with Words) captures precisely this
discursive and mnemonic potential of objects in Raffel’s text. Raffel invites
us to think about how we can do “words with things,” that is start from
objects in order to perform a linguistic exploration of memory, temporality,
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Passionsoratorium Kommt her und schaut Carl Heinrich Grauns (1703/04-1759): dessen Textübersetzung ins Japanisch
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Shaftesbury's Sensus communis: an essay on the freedom of wit and humour: Japanese Translation (part 1)
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An Act of Faith and Vision : Why Did the United States Go to the Moon?
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From “Ming Yin” to “Pin Ming”–Research on the History of Various Concepts related to the Drinking of “tea” in Ancient China–
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Knowing by Going: The Iwakura Embassy and the Discovery of the Earth’s Natural Environment
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