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Investigating EFL Students' Writing Skills Through Artificial Intelligence: Wordtune Application as a Tool 用人工智能研究英语学生的写作技巧:Wordtune的应用

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.28

F. A. Mahmud

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Linguistic Expressions of Conditions of Chinese Legislative Provisions: A Register Grammar Perspective 中国立法条款条件的语言表达:语域语法视角

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.29

Daohua Hu

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Role of Multimedia-Aided EFL Classrooms in Promoting Learners’ Interaction and Participation in Tertiary-Level Bangladeshi Students 多媒体辅助英语课堂在促进孟加拉国高等教育学生互动和参与中的作用

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.08

Shehneela Naz

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Multi-Peer Feedback as a Means for Enhancing Students’ Writing Skills 多同伴反馈是提高学生写作技能的一种手段

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.01

Osman Osmani

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Emotional Management of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe's Main Character 笛福《鲁滨逊漂流记》中主人公的情感管理

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.30

Burhanuddin Arafah, Juliastuti Sirajuddin, Magfirah Thayyib, Fahmi Room, Takwa, Wan Anayati

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Appropriating Feminist Voice While Translating: Unpublished but Visible Project 在翻译中挪用女权主义的声音:未发表但可见的项目

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.23

Nabil Al-Awawdeh

{"title":"Appropriating Feminist Voice While Translating: Unpublished but Visible Project","authors":"Nabil Al-Awawdeh","doi":"10.17507/jltr.1405.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1405.23","url":null,"abstract":"Translating a text and making it comprehensive for others is an essential job of the translator, but when a woman translator transfers a text and intentionally stresses the female voice, the act becomes a gender-significant distinction. This study aims to understand the 'feminist' translation strategies used by translators in producing her works. It also aims to study the feminist movement in the Arab world. This paper adopts Skopos's theory to justify using specific strategies in their translation and explain why translators' identities are becoming more visible. The databases from ProQuest, Taylor and Francis, EBSCO, and Google Scholar, were used to explore research articles and books published between 1980 and 2021 for western feminist studies and between 2000 and 2021 for Eastern (Arab) feminist studies. Systematic analysis methods were used, and findings were reported in this study. The results were discussed and presented thematically. Additionally, this paper opens more discussions on the politics of feminist texts in different ways and methods via translation. It shows how the translator's interventions and strategies reshape the Translations so that the force of the feminist message is amplified in some places and mitigated in others. However, further research is needed to investigate more questions, such as the effect of understanding feminism(s) and the translator's ideology on the translation of feminist texts produced. This paper is a crucial contribution to feminism in the Arab world because very few works have been published, and few scholars have discussed this topic.","PeriodicalId":31813,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74748777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improving English Pronunciation by Using Instructive Musical Exercises: University Teaching Context in Serbia 用指导性音乐练习提高英语发音:塞尔维亚大学教学语境

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.02

Nataša M. Vukićević, Ivana R. Ćirković-Miladinović

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Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices Relating to the Use of Tasks in Tertiary English as a Foreign Language Classrooms in China 中国大学英语作为外语课堂中教师任务运用的信念与实践

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.24

Lingling Guan

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Regional and Sociolinguistic Variation of Personal Pronouns in Dialects of Najdi Arabic 阿拉伯语方言中人称代词的地域和社会语言学变异

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.19

N. M. Alajmi

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The Influence of Language Contact on the Usages of xən35 in Duyun Dialect 语言接触对都匀方言x æ n35用法的影响

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.17507/jltr.1405.20

Shiyin Tang

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