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Exploring multilingual writers in secondary education: insights from a trilingual corpus 探索中学教育中的多语言作家：从三语语料库中获得的启示

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-16 DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2023-0022

Roberto Arias-Hermoso, Ainara Imaz Agirre

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Second Language Learners Listening to their Peers: Is There a Shared L1 Effect for L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness? 第二语言学习者倾听同伴:对于第二语言的可理解性和重音性是否存在共同的L1效应?

European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2022-0014

Elina Tergujeff

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Passive Sentences and Abstract Agents in German School Books 德语教科书中的被动句与抽象施动者

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-09-02 DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2022-0036

Sarah Olthoff

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2023-frontmatter2

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Co-constructing devices in narrative sequences of multilingual preschool children 多语学龄前儿童叙事序列中的共同建构手段

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2022-0057

R. Videsott, Katharina Salzmann

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La Lecture De La Sequence Narrative Dans L’enfant Sans Nom De Florence Trystram 阅读弗洛伦斯·特里斯特拉姆的《无名之子》中的叙事序列

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.47941/ejl.1398

Martin Luther TSHIFUMBE MUTAU

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Technique D'ecriture Dans L’enfant Sans Nom De Florence Trystram 弗洛伦斯·特里斯特拉姆的《无名之子》中的写作技巧

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.47941/ejl.1397

Martin Luther Tshifumbe Mutau

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Individualism and Nonattainment of Social Change in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God 奇努阿·阿契贝的《万物崩裂》和《上帝之箭》中的个人主义与社会变革的不实现

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-12 DOI: 10.47941/ejl.1390

Ben-Fred Ohia, Nkpolu Oroworukwo

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When correct spelling hardly matters: Teenagers’ production and perception of spelling error corrections in Dutch social media writing 当正确的拼写几乎不重要:青少年在荷兰社交媒体写作中拼写错误纠正的生产和感知

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.1515/eujal-2022-0028

Hanne Surkyn, D. Sandra, R. Vandekerckhove

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Women and the Quest for a New Narrative inContemporary Nigerian Drama: An Examination of Irene Isoken Agunloye's Sweet Revenge and Tracie ChimaUtoh- Ezeajugh'sNneora: An African Doll's House 当代尼日利亚戏剧中的女性与对新叙事的探索:考察艾琳·伊肯·阿贡洛伊的《甜蜜复仇》和特蕾西·奇莫托·伊泽贾贾的《非洲娃娃之家》

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European Journal of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-08-08 DOI: 10.47941/ejl.1386

A. O. Eziechine, Queen Esene

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