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The implementation of English as a compulsory subject in Mongolia: EFL teachers’ perceptions and experiences 蒙古国英语必修课程的实施:英语教师的看法与经验

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-06 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v5i1.1514

Daariimaa Marav, L. Choi

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Handling translations of data for qualitative research 处理定性研究数据的翻译

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-06 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v5i1.1515

Uswatun Qoyyimah

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A social-cognitive research on metaphor and metonymy: Taking age appellations in Chinese as an example 隐喻与转喻的社会认知研究——以汉语年龄称谓为例

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1456

Yan Zheng

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The development of Chinese university students’ intercultural competence in a short-term study-abroad program 短期海外留学项目对中国大学生跨文化能力的培养

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-28 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1460

Hongshan Zuo, Y. Hu

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The effect of content retelling on incidental vocabulary acquisition for Chinese EFL learners 内容复述对中国英语学习者附带词汇习得的影响

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-28 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1461

Jingyi Jin, Shuguang Li

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A bibliometric study of the research field of experimental philosophy of language 实验语言哲学研究领域的文献计量学研究

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-27 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1462

Jincai Li, Xiaozhen Zhu

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The L3 acquisition of English tense-aspect system by Uygur speakers with L2 Mandarin Chinese 维吾尔族使用二语普通话时体系统的三语习得

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-23 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1459

Qianping Gu, Muradil Adil

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A semantic contrastive study of Chinese and English verb “跑/run” from the perspective of cognitive semantics 认知语义学视角下英汉动词“跑”的语义对比研究

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-20 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1458

Pei-hu Fang, Qi Liu

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A dialogic view on construal: A study on the instantiations of wh-interrogative words in wh-dialogues 解译的对话观:“wh”对话中“wh”疑问句的实例化研究

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-19 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1455

Guocai Zeng

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The developmental trajectory of mandarin Chinese-speaking children’s pure metonymy comprehension ability 普通话儿童纯转喻理解能力的发展轨迹

Forum for Linguistic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-19 DOI: 10.18063/fls.v4i1.1457

Songqiao Xie

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