Past MRPs and Theses
Student Name (Field) |
Title of Major Research Paper or (Thesis / DISSERTATION) | ||
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| Abbasi, Nader (AL) | A Study on Language Identity Shift in Azeri-Iranians Living in Canada | ||
| Abbott, Alida (AL) | The Hidden Benefits of a CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning Facility) | ||
| Ahmed, Amer (L) | The Movement Theory of Control in Iraqi Arabic: A Case of PRO or pro? | ||
| Ahmed, Farhana (AL) | ESL/EFL Students' Attitudes to Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English in Two University Settings (Thesis) | ||
| Alam, Monjurul (AL) | Expertise in L2 Writing: Potential for the Integration of the Writing-as-a-Process Approach in the EAP Program at University of Chittagong | ||
| Allen, Rebecca (AL) | "Thunder or Lightning: Addressing Nonverbal Communication in the ESL Classroom" | ||
| Alexandre, Nathalie (L) | Variation in the Spoken French of Franco-Ontarians: Preposition De Followed by the Deictic Pro-forms ca and la, aller in... (Thesis) | ||
| Alika, Kastriot (AL) | Linguistic and Contextual Factors in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition | ||
| Alshehab, Ali (AL) | The Writing Centre as a Pedagogical Environment for Active Learning: Feedback in the Contact Zone | ||
| Al-Siraj, Nadia Kamal (AL) | Analysis of the Discourse and Linguistics Features of Essays Written for YELT | ||
| Altobelli-Sendrea, Amy (AL) | Communicative Competence: A Lack of Definitional and Theoretical Consistency | ||
| Anacleto, Sandra (L) | "Nós" and "a gente": A Grammaticalization case in Azorean Portuguese | ||
| Arthur, Christopher (L) | Critical Discourse Analysis of the Killing of Iraqi Civilians by the US Military During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq in the Toronto Area Print Media | ||
| Asgari, Leila (AL) | A Year in a Persian-Canadian Boy's Language Socialization: An Immigrant Family's Challenges | ||
| Azizi, Mojtaba (AL) | A Critical Analysis of Research on Integrated and Independent Tasks for Assessing ESL Writing | ||
| Bailey, Christina (AL) | Narrating the Immigrant Experience: A Case Study Investigating the Way in which One Woman Depicits Life as a Italian Immigrant in Canada | ||
| Bailey, Yvette (L) | The Role of Jamaican Creole in Formal Education | ||
| Baltus, Richard (AL) | Teaching Practices of ESL Teachers in Elementary Schools in Ontario | ||
| Barrington, Nancy (AL) | E-mail Pragmatics: Stepping up from College to the Workplace | ||
Branyik, Stephanie (AL) |
Issues of Fairness in Language Testing: An Investigation of Test-Takers' Perspectives on the York English Language Test (YELT) | ||
| Bayram, Tekiye (AL) | Mother Tongue Use in the Classroom | ||
| Berlanda, Elena (L) | New Perspectives on Digraphia: A Framework for the Sociolinguistics of Writing Systems | ||
| Bhatia, Archna (L) | An Investigation of Adverb Placement in Hindi | ||
| Bianchi, Robert (AL) | National Language Planing in Indonesia and Israel: A Contrastive Analysis of Two Case Studies | ||
| Bissonnette, Celine (AL) | Learning English Online: Options and Issues | ||
| Blumenfeld, Joanna (AL) | Motivation the "Neglected Heart" of Language Instruction | ||
| Bobotsis, Angela (AL) | The Role of Emotions in Language Learning | ||
| Boivin, Nettie (AL) | Assessing Constraints and Affordances in the TEYL/TEFL Language Ecology: Distinctions between Early and Late Primary School Students | ||
| Bontsal, Maryana (AL) | Language Policies and Language Planning in Contemporary Ukraine | ||
| Bourassa, Ashley (L) | The Performative Construction of Gay Male Speech: A Comparative Approach | ||
| Brooker, Leah (AL) | Responding to L2 Student Writing | ||
| Butler, Alison (L) | Linguistic Contributions to the Literacy Development of African American Vernacular English-speaking Children | ||
| Chamanafruz, Mina (AL) | The Relationship between Culture and Strategies Used by ESL Students in Listening | ||
| Chen, Kuei-Chan (AL) | Narration of My Trilingual Identity Path from An Ecological Perspective | ||
| Cheng, Chao-Hsun (AL) | Exploring the Knowledge Base of Two Experienced ESL Teachers: A Case Study | ||
| Cheng, Man To (L) | Classifiers: A Comparative Study of Cantonese and Mandarin | ||
| Chettle, Barbara (L) | The Phonologies of Old and Classical Portuguese, Spanish and Ladino, and the Development of Papiamentu | ||
| Choi, Su-young (AL) | Korean ESL Students' Perceived Difficulties in Improving Communicative Competence in ESL Courses in Toronto | ||
| Chow, Daryl (L) | Singlish can say what?: A study of optional wh-in-situ Singaporean English | ||
| Christensen, Peter (AL) | Language Planning Practices and Wolofization in Senegal (Thesis) | ||
| Chung, Charmaine (L) | 'Uh, I do not have authority for that': Variation in courtroom discourse | ||
| Collings, Courtney (L) | To Catch a Killer: An analysis of the discourse used by Toronto-based newspapers in framing the 2003 SARS epidemic | ||
| Comeau, Philip (L) | The Integration of Words of English Origin in Baie Sainte-Marie Acadian French | ||
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| Conley, Irena (AL) | The Influence of Repeated Revisions on L2 Students' Writing | ||
| Contois, Ilse (AL) | Implications of Bilingual Brain Research for Brain-Compatible Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy | ||
| Dachevski, Luba (L) | The Politics of Language Policy in Latvia | ||
| Das, Arup (AL) | Journeying towards Content-Based ESL Instruction | ||
| DeDecker, Paul (L) | The Canadian Shift Beyond the City Limits (Thesis) | ||
| Deng, Jijun (AL) | To Be an "Intercultural Speaker" in the Globalized Village - A Survey of Newly Arrived Chinese Immigrant Professionals Living in Canada | ||
| Devine-Tanimura, A. (AL) | Performing the Speech Act of Apology in Japanese as a Foreign Language | ||
| Dinardo, Rhoda (L) | A New Hegemonic Masculinity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Dominance and Violence in Eminem's Rap Lyrics | ||
| Drzazga, Grazyna (AL) | The Effectiveness of Teaching Communications Strategies to ESL/EFL Learners: A Literature Review | ||
| Duan, Fang (AL) | Getting to Know English, teaching English, and living English: My Lanuage Learning Narrative | ||
| Eng, Li-Min (AL) | Internationally Educated Nurses(IENs) at Work in Toronto: The IENs' Perspective | ||
| Fijal-Samsel, Grazyna (AL) | Contemporary Debates of Standardization of English as an International Language: An Analysis of Implications for the Non-Native Educator | ||
| Fonseca, Julio (AL) | Co-Construction of Identities in the Classroom Setting | ||
| Fullick, Melonie (L) | McMaster's Directions: Managerialist Discourse and Change in Higher Education | ||
| Fu, Yan (AL) | First Language Maintenance in Two Chinese Immigrant Families | ||
| Gamaleeva, Lyudmyla (AL) | Attending to Form and Meaning: The NET Method - Noticing, Explicitness, Tasks | ||
| Gamalyeyev, Alex (AL) | Using Authentic Materials to Develop L2 Students' Listening Comprehension Skills | ||
| Gauthier, Benedict (L) | The Valley Girl "Syndrome" Uptalk in Contemporary Toronto English | ||
| Giester, Angelika (L) | Aspects of Dialect Standardization in Upper Austria | ||
| Glogowski, Patricia (AL) | Face Threatening Acts and Politeness in a Faceless Medium - An Online Discussion Forum | ||
| Greenberg, Michael (AL) | Guidelines for the Creation of a Holistic English for Business Purposes Course | ||
| Gooljarsingh, Rohanna (L) | Changes in the Use of Doz/Iz in Trinidadian Creole | ||
| Gonzàlez, José (AL) | Some"Whys,""Hows," and "Whats" about language Policies and Planning in California | ||
| Haller, Jeannie (AL) | Academic Listening Comprehension and L1/L2 Note-Taking | ||
| Hamilton, Sarah (L) | Not Just "One of them Things": The Conditioning of the Demonstrative Plural Pronoun Variable in the West Virginia Dialect Project Corpus | ||
| Han, Dongkeun (AL) | A Comparative Analysis of Textbooks (Korean and English Norm Contexts) for Undergraduate Writing Courses | ||
| Han, Hyunjung (L) | Phonetic Spelling in Internet Korean | ||
| Hansanen, Johanna (AL) | ESL Students' Pragmatic Awareness | ||
| Harizanova, Snezhana (AL) | Attention to Grammar in a Finnish Context: Curriculum and Classroom Practice | ||
| Heeney, Maggie (AL) | Collaborative Awareness Reading Training (CART): Student and Teacher Perceptions of the Reciprocal Teaching Approach | ||
| Herath, Sreemali (AL) | Digging the Text: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Sri Lankan ELT Textbooks | ||
| Ho, Yim Ngan (AL) | Developing an Adult Immigrant ESP Programme: A Case Study of "Practical English for Work" | ||
| Hodges, Leslee (AL) | L2 Vocabulary Learning: Potential Enhancement of Current Instructional Practices in the Intermediate French as a Second Language Classroom | ||
| Hollinger, Kristina (L) | Narrative expansion in patient-surgeon interaction | ||
| Hopkins, Lisa (AL) | I Thought I Was Teaching English: Addressing Race and Racism in the Canadian ELT Context | ||
| Horn, D. Kyle (L) | The Development of English Modal Auxiliaries: A Generative Examination | ||
| Huang, Shenyu (AL) | Immigrant Chinese Students' Perceptions of their English Communicative Competence Relative to their Classroom English Training and their Field | ||
| Huang, Wen-Hsuan (AL) | Teachers' Perception of Cooperative/Collaborative Assessment | ||
| Hughes, Alison (AL) | Policy in Practice: The Ontario International Languages Program | ||
| Humphrey, Jennifer (AL) | English linguistics capital: Singapore's language policy and the social stratification of its population | ||
| Hwang, Du Nam (AL) | Biliteracy Attainment of Immigrant Minority Children: A Critical Review | ||
| Iida, Fumie (AL) | Japanese linguistic Culture, English policy, and recent proposals on the status of English in Japan | ||
| Ireland, Barbara (AL) | Interaction in an Intact Classroom: A Teacher Research Perspective | ||
| Jeffers, Jacqueline (AL) | Analysis of Resources for Instruction in Listening Comprehension for Second Language Learners at CLB 6 or Higher | ||
| Jennings, Gary (AL) | Issues of Activities for L2 Writing: The use of Contrastive Rhetoric, Voice and L1 as a thinking Language when composing | ||
| Jia, Chao (L) | Developing openness to otherness: A personal case study in intercultural communication | ||
| Jia, Yongfang (AL) | Chinese Non-English Majory Graduates' Perceptions of the Communicative Approach in EFL Teaching in China | ||
| Julian, Charles (L) | Frozen Morphology and Historical Agentivity in Pidgin Genesis | ||
| Jung, Do-Hee (L) | Are things r and l? All things r and l. Perception of English r and l by Adult Native Speakers of Korean | ||
| Kabkab, Kefayat (AL) | Orthographic and Cognitive Factors in Learning to Read in a Second Language: Implications for Teaching to Reading to Persian ESL/EFL Learners | ||
| Kassam, Noreen (AL) | Stuttering and Language Development: Is there a Link? | ||
| Kawai, Shizuko Lee (L) | The Study of the Choice of the Vocabulary in the Translations of the Bible into Japanese - From the Viewpoint of Language Contacts in the Far-East Asia | ||
| Kettner, Beth (AL) | English-Only Policies in Education: Motivations and Implications | ||
| Khidir, Samir (AL) | Language Policy and Attitudes in Algeria: Nation Building and Identity Crisis | ||
| Kim, Taeyoul (L) | The Korean Nominal Structure and Default Case | ||
| King, Jessica (AL) | Teacher Perceptions of Rubrics and Feedback in a College-level Writing Course | ||
| Kirikopoulos, Eleni (AL) | Language Testing and the Naturalization Process in Germany: Is the Test Appropriate for its Context? | ||
| Kisembe, Evelyne (L) | The Phonology of Tone in Lubukusu Verbs | ||
| Kisielyte, Laura (L) | On Argument Structure in Ndebele: Applicatives High and Low | ||
| Kobylinska, Beata (AL) | The Relationship between Teacher Trainees' Knowledge Base and their Teaching Practices (Thesis) | ||
| Kondan, Michaela (L) | "What do you mean you're stressed out?": The Concept of Stress in Biomedicine and Alternative Health Care Systems | ||
| Kotchoubei, Anna (AL) | Assessment and Evaluation of ESL Students in Mainstream Classroom | ||
| Kouretsos, Irene (AL) | Attitudes Towards and Perceptions of Foreign-Accented Speech | ||
| Lavezzari, Osvaldo (AL) | Anxiety in Second Language Teaching and Learning | ||
| Lee, Sunghwa (L) | Post-Obstruent Tensification in Korean within the Framework of OT | ||
| Legge, Keile (AL) | Language and the Inuit Identity: Attitudes, Values and Beliefs about Inuttitut in Kuujjuaraapik, Quebec | ||
| Legut, Patrycja (AL) | Non-Native English Speaker Teachers in the Canadian Work Environment: Challenges and Practices | ||
| Levitski, Olga (L) | Trilingual Code-Switching as Communication Strategy: Russian Israelis in Toronto | ||
| Li, Hui (AL) | Reticent or Active: Some Chinese students' class participation in an international high school in Canada | ||
| Li, Lin (AL) | Undergraduates' Attitudes toward and Evaluation of Nonnative Speaker Teaching Assistants(NNSTAs) at York University and NNSTA's Experience and Perspectives | ||
| Liu, Ju-hsia (AL) | The Role of Culture in ELT in Taiwanese Teacher Education | ||
| Lopes, Jennie (AL) | Intragroup Attitudinal Influences on Learners in a Portuguese Community School | ||
| Lotje-Murr, Walter (L) | Pornoun Drop in Catalan | ||
| Malhotra, Parul (L) | English Language Education in India | ||
| Magistro, Elena (L) | The European Union and the Creation of a European Identity | ||
| Manzoori, Iraj (AL) | The Second Language Teacher in the Post-method Era | ||
| Martin Plaza, Neftali (AL) | Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in the Performance of Three Politeness Strategies: A Literature Review | ||
| Mayberry, Emily (L) | English Language Spread in The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg | ||
| Mazzaro, Natalia (L) | Speaking Spanish with Style: A Sociolinguistics Analysis of /s/ in Corrientes, Argentina (Thesis) | ||
| Mba, Chinedu (AL) | Meeting the Needs of Foreign Trained Professsionals: An Analysis of Sector-Specific Orientation, Terminology Training, Information and Counselling (STIC) | ||
| Meacock Heather-Lynne (AL) | Exploring the Disjunction: Medical Discourse and Narrative at the Site of Diagnosis | ||
| Meades, Sean (L) | "We need to do more ground work to find out what we need to do": Evaluating the Impact of the Federal Aboriginal Language Initiative in Ontario | ||
| Meilleur, Rachelle (AL) | Job Opportunities and Professionalism Issues in EFL | ||
| Mendelsohn, Jonathan (AL) | The Speech of Holden Caufield: How Real is It? | ||
| Meyer Sterzik, Angela (AL) | Communication Strategies: Enhancing Global Communication | ||
| Milgram, Shirah (L) | The Theory of Universal Grammar: Historical tensions and debates | ||
| Millar, Jeffrey (AL) | Racialization Processes and Language Policy Discourse: Official English and the Discursive Representation of Immigration Reform in the Inhofe Amendment Debate, May 2006 | ||
| Nemethy, Viktor (L) | Language Rights, Language Laws and Minorities | ||
| Ng, Jacqueline (L) | Influence of First Language on Second Language Acquisition | ||
| Paauw, Scott (L) | A Historical Analysis of the Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay (Thesis) | ||
| Packer, Shira (AL) | Learner Responses to Pragmatic Instruction in an L2 Classroom | ||
| Park, Henry (AL) | A Study of the Effects of Raised Awareness of Metacognition through Systematic Self-Reflective Journals on the Journal Writers' L2 Learning Strategies | ||
| Pathan, Gazala (AL) | Language Recovery Patterns in the Asphasic Brain | ||
| Pauvk, Silvia (AL) | An Inquiry into the UnderRepresentation of ESL Students in a School in the Toronto French Immersion Program | ||
| Plante, N. Sebastien (L) | Semantic Roles and Argument Structure: Overview and Discussion | ||
| Prifti, Arjan (AL) | Peculiarities of English Academic Vocabulary Affecting Its Learnability Among Secondary School Students in Ontario | ||
| Price, Jean (AL) | Gaelic in Scotland and Nova Scotia: Policy and Planning Issues Within the Diaspora | ||
| Priven, Dmitri (L) | Lest They Forget: Bilingual Education as a Way to Prevent First Language Attrition among Immigrant School-Age Children (Thesis) | ||
| Psyllakis, Paula (AL) | Formulaic Language in the Discourse of People with Alzheimer's Disease | ||
| Quinn, John (AL) | Language loss: Power issues as the cause of language shift in Ireland - cultural, politcal and economic factors | ||
| Radisic, Milica (L) | Subject Raising and Obligatory Subject Control in Serbian | ||
| Rae, Jannet (AL) | Questions in the Speech of Children with Down Syndrome | ||
| Rankin, Andrea (AL) | Change in a College ESL Curriculum: Teachers' Roles and Perspectives | ||
| Riebold, John (L) | Creak in the Rain: Phonation in Oregon English | ||
| Ristimaki, Thomas (L) | Energy in the Discourse of Alternative Health and Medicine | ||
| Rodionova, Yulia (L) | French-lexified Caribbean Creole Languages in French-speaking and English-speaking Environments | ||
| Romaniuk, Tanya (L) | Looks like a mayor, thinks like a mayor, talks like a neighbour": The discourse construction of David Miller (Thesis) | ||
| Rosenfield, Beatrice (AL) | Enhancing Reading Proficiency In the Second Language Learner | ||
| Sachdeva, Nidhi (AL) | Face-to-face classroom instruction combined with online home assignments: a study of ESL student's perceptions of Moodle | ||
| Safdari, Mansour (AL) | "A Glass of Red Milk Please!": Teachers Reaction to 'De-colonized' ELT Textbooks in Iran | ||
| Sakvarelidze, Maia (L) | Properties of the Russian Reflexive Morpheme | ||
| Savağlu, Őzlem (L) | Is it all Greek to me? An Empirical Study of Cypriot Turkish | ||
| Scardicchio, Christine (AL) | A Critical Examination of Issues in the Development of High-Stakes Language Tests within the Canadian Language Benchmarks Framework | ||
| Shahid, Sobia (AL) | Integrating CLT Principles into a Grammar-focused Course in the EFL Program at the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad | ||
| Shakiba, Nooshin (AL) | The Influence of Age on Adult Second Language Learners' Accent: A Literature Review | ||
| Shin, Misun (AL) | "Supplementing regular English reading classes with extensive reading in the South Korean context" | ||
| Sixsmith, Suzanne (AL) | Maintaining Inuktitut in a changing ecology: The legacy of colonialism in Nunavut schools and its impact on the survival of the Inuit Language | ||
| Slavkov, Nikolay (AL) | Legitimizing inequalities through language use: Critical Analysis of the Canadian Government's Discourse on the Live-in Caregiver's Program | ||
| Smith, Gabriel (L) | Racism in Olympic Sports News: A Critical Discourse Analysis | ||
| Soltys, Jessica (AL) | Speech Acts and Pragmatics in ESL Textbooks | ||
| Song, Heejin (AL) | Reconceptualizing Cosmopolitanism in English Education in South Korea: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the English Language Curriculum and Textbooks | ||
| Sri Vijayasri, Priyantha (AL) | Current Thinking on Alternative Language Assessment | ||
| Stern, Yael (AL) | Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Children with Autism: Considering the Use of PECS and Sign Language | ||
| Sun, Miao (AL) | Teaching College English Listening in China: Difficulties and Possibilities | ||
| Suraweera, Dulani (AL) | Employing "Focus on Form" in the intermediate EAP classroom at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka | ||
| Szabo, Michelle (AL) | "Purposeful mistakes": how adult language learners construct positive identities through non-standard language | ||
| Tabone, Ricardo (L) | Variation in the Reflexive Clitic Particles in Brazilian Portuguese | ||
| Tahira, Khadija (AL) | A Review of Research on the Effects of Extensive Reading on ESL/EFL Learners' Reading Proficiency | ||
| Tang, Alex (L) | Factors Influencing the Non-Development of a Foreign Accent | ||
| Tang, Fei (AL) | Beyond Orthographic Reform: German Orthography in the Era of Electronic Writing | ||
| Tao, Yi (AL) | A Communicative Approach to the Teaching of Spoken English: What can Chinese Teachers tell Us? | ||
| Tian, Jun (AL) | The Effectiveness of Peer Feedback in L2 Writing Class in China | ||
| Tocalli Beller, Agustina (AL) | All I's on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition | ||
| Todorovski, Ivan (AL) | The Role of Krste Petkov Misikov as a Crucial Factor in the Construction of the Macedonian Literacy Language | ||
| Trajkovska, Neda (L) | Change of Social Identity and Language Learning: A Study of the Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, Canada (Thesis) | ||
| Tremblay, Marie-Claude (L) | Cross-Linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: The Role of L2 Proficiency (Thesis) | ||
| Tsutagawa, Fred (AL) | "What's so funny?": The effects of explicit humor instruction of sociocultural-historical knowledge bases on the humor comprehension of North American comedy films by advanced second language learners of English | ||
| Urano, Masaaki (L) | Japanese Particles and Syntatic Representations | ||
| Valencia Cabrera, Marlon (AL) | Colombia bilingue? A language education policy Analysis | ||
| Vasiliou, Maria (L) | Sistah's Speech: A Critical Review of African American Women's Language | ||
| Verhaeghe, Kristan (L) | Language Impairment in Autism: Grammatical or Pragmatic Deficit? | ||
| Verhoef, Kathleen (AL) | Intonation at work: Problem posing in an ESL for Customer Service programme |
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| Vitkova, Elena (AL) | The Role of Language Play in Second Language Learning | ||
| Wang, Changjiang (AL) | The Effects of Swear Words on the Perception of Accented English | ||
| Wang, Shifeng (AL) | A Diary Study of an Immigrant's Language Self-Study Experience | ||
| Way, Theodore (AL) | Constructing a Voice: Second Language Acquisition in Survivors of Torture | ||
| Wei, Fang (AL) | The Language Learning Strategies of Adult ESL Learners: Case Studies of Individual Differences and Preferred Learning Strategies in Academic Listening Tasks | ||
| Wellington, Mehrdad (AL) | The 'Market" in Neoliberal Discourse | ||
| Wick, Neil (L) | Analyzing Language Variation and Change as a Complex Adaptive System | ||
| Wiseman, Christine (AL) | The Language, Social, and Cultural Needs of Adult ESL Immigrants | ||
| Wong, Caron (L) | Multilingualism, Language Maintenance, and Cultural Identity: A Case Study among Chinese-Speaking Communities in Toronto | ||
| Wong, Keturah (L) | A Comparative Analysis of Three Sign Language Transcription Systems | ||
| Wood, Robert (AL) | Language Learning 2.0: Writing on the Read/Write Web | ||
| Xu, Shijing (AL) | The Perspectives of Chinese Visiting Scholars in Canada on the Teaching and Learning of English for Non-English Major Students in China | ||
| Xu, Yejun (AL) | Characteristics of Chinese EFL Composition and Problems in Academic Writing as Perceived by Chinese EFL Students | ||
| Yang, Lihui (AL) | An Investigation Into Chinese Immigrant Newcomers' Listening Strategies From The Perspective Of Identity Theories | ||
| Yuen, Ming Chu (L) | The Syntatic Errors in English of Hong Kong Cantonese Speakers | ||
| Zhao, Jun (AL) | Is it appropriate? The influence of culturally loaded words on EFL students' competence to judge appropriateness of words |
