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Plurilingualism and monolingualism in foreign language classrooms: The perspective of EFL teachers in Saudi Arabia 外语课堂中的多语制与单语制:沙特阿拉伯英语教师的视角

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2020-0002

Ali Alsaawi

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On a shoestring: child speakers of other languages in Slovak education 小本经营:在斯洛伐克教育中讲其他语言的儿童

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2020-0006

Zuzana Bánovčanová, Zuzana Danišková, Markéta Filagová

引用次数: 1

Perception of factuality in selected online news media 在选定的网络新闻媒体中对事实的感知

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2020-0008

Eva Eddy

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Meta-analysis of studies on the acquisition of receptive skills and vocabulary in CLIL CLIL中接受技能习得与词汇习得的meta分析

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2020-0003

Ivana Cimermanová

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CLIL and intercultural competence in teaching Japanese language and literature 日语语言和文学教学中的CLIL和跨文化能力

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2020-0004

Yasutaka Maruki

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Historical Bratislava in literary fiction and film adaptation 历史布拉迪斯拉发在文学小说和电影改编

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2020-0009

D. Tekeliová

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CLIL: Conceptual differences in teaching “realia” to philological and non-philological students CLIL：语文学和非语文学学生在“realia”教学中的概念差异

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2019-0019

Jana Javorcikova, A. Zelenkova

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Teacher-student interaction and management practices in Pakistani English language classrooms 巴基斯坦英语课堂师生互动与管理实践

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2019-0024

Muhammad Ahmad, Aleem Shakir, A. R. Siddique

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Lowland Slovak youth literature and its interpretational and educational aspects (within and outside the school) 低地斯洛伐克青年文学及其解释和教育方面(校内和校外)

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2019-0023

P. Šenkár

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Facets of translation in foreign language education: a tentative classification of forms and uses 翻译在外语教育中的作用:形式与用法的初步分类

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Journal of Language and Cultural Education Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/jolace-2019-0021

Xénia Liashuk

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