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Some Notes on Andrapolis, the Royal City: Apocryphal Acts of Thomas 3

2021

The following paper aims to explore the meaning and significance of the so-called royal city  Andrapolis  (Ἀνδράπολις) within the context of the  Apocryphal Acts of Thomas’ s narrative (chapter 3). The identification of this Indian toponym have attracted the attention of many scholars during the last century and nowadays again, as witness of the few reliable historical traces supposedly transmitted by the apocryphal. For doing so, after a short introduction, we deal with the allegedly historicity of the text; then, we focus on the issue related mainly to the different variants of the location depending on the Syriac and Greek versions of the  Acts of Thomas,  and propose a new interpretatio…

Do Phonological Codes Constrain the Selection of Orthographic Codes in Written Picture Naming?

2001

Sound-to-print consistency of picture labels was manipulated in five experiments to investigate whether phonological codes constrain the selection of orthographic codes in written picture naming. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants wrote down picture names which were inconsistent or consistent in the phono-orthographic mapping defined either at the level of the word unit, i.e., heterographic homophones versus nonhomophones (Experiment 1), or at the sublexical level (Experiment 2). In neither experiment did phonographic consistency affect written latencies. Although more errors were observed for inconsistent than for consistent picture names, the observation of a similar error pattern in an…

La responsabilidad del profesorado en la enseñanza de la puntuación

2013

[EN] Proper usage of punctuation marks is fundamental for good writing. Teachers are a key factor in the learning process of students¿ command of punctuation marks as they are the major source of information for learners. This article offers various studies which show the teachers¿ command of the usage of punctuation marks and the most important difficulties they encounter in their teaching experience. Similary, we review also some research that are far from the normative point of view and focus on psycholinguistic aspects in which it is to see how children learn to score and how adults can get better use of signs.

A third space: discursive realizations of immigrant identity

2015

The relationship between additional language use and identity has long been of interest to scholars studying immigration and multilingualism. While oral language is frequently examined as a site for the negotiation of identity, written texts can also be studied for information about how language learners position themselves within their receiving culture. This study looks at the relationship between pronoun choice and identity in additional language academic writing by first generation immigrants in Norway, arguing that language learners signal solidarity with certain subject positions through their use of pronouns. Examining English-language texts discussing themes related to language pres…

Assessing learners’ writing skills in a SLA study: Validating the rating process across tasks, scales and languages

2014

There is still relatively little research on how well the CEFR and similar holistic scales work when they are used to rate L2 texts. Using both multifaceted Rasch analyses and qualitative data from rater comments and interviews, the ratings obtained by using a CEFR-based writing scale and the Finnish National Core Curriculum scale for L2 writing were examined to validate the rating process used in the study of the linguistic basis of the CEFR in L2 Finnish and English. More specifically, we explored the quality of the ratings and the rating scales across different tasks and across the two languages. As the task is an integral part of the data-gathering procedure, the relationship of task p…

VOT production, writing skills, and general proficiency in multilingual learners of French: approaching the intertwinement of different linguistic le…

2021

Abstract We investigate the interrelations between pronunciation and writing skills in French as a foreign language produced by two groups of bilingual learners (German-Russian; German-Turkish) and a monolingually raised German control group (each n = 10). As an indicator of the learners’ pronunciation skills, we refer to a perceptually relevant acoustic feature of stop production, “Voice Onset Time” (VOT). Our aim is to explore whether the learners’ proficiency at the level of pronunciation is mirrored in (1) their global language competencies and (2) their writing skills. We applied an extreme-cases approach based on the learners’ VOT productions in L3 French. Both positive and negative d…

Retrouvailles avec Hélène Lenoir

2012

La presente entrevista intenta una aproximación general a la obra de Hélène Lenoir, escritora francesa contemporánea poco conocida por el gran público. A lo largo de la misma se abordan sus comienzos y su ubicación en el panorama literario francés al tiempo que se destacan los autores que la han influenciado. Se pasa revista, también, a las principales características temáticas y estilísticas de su creación literaria haciendo hincapié en la problemática de las relaciones tormentosas, verdadero eje ordenador de su obra narrativa. The goal of this interview is to establish a first approach to the work of Hélène Lenoir, a contemporary and relatively unknown to the public at large author. We wi…

Selostuksesta tulkintoihin : aineistojen esittäminen lukiolaisten historian esseissä

2019

Artikkelissa selvitetään tiedonalakohtaisten tekstitaitojen viitekehyksessä, miten lukiolaisten historian esseissä rekontekstualisoidaan aineistona olevia historiallisia -dokumentteja ja miten dokumentteja selostavat ja niitä tulkitsevat esitykset eroavat toisistaan. Aineistona on 52 lukion kurssikokeen yhteydessä kirjoitettua esseetä, joiden tehtävänanto edellyttää aineistojen hyödyntämistä vastauksen perustelussa. Tutkimuksen teoreettisena ja metodologisena viitekehyksenä ovat systeemis-funktionaalinen kieliteoria ja siihen pohjautuva suhtautumisen teoria. Tutkimuksen analyysiyksikön rajauksessa hyödynnetään projektion käsitettä, ja analyysin kohteeksi on valittu sellaiset projektiot, joi…

Les listes dans le discours visuel du Moyen Âge italien. Le cas de Rome aux XIe et XIIe siècles

2019

Viajando a la mercantil o apresado de ingleses piratas: dos formas de dar la vuelta al mundo a finales del siglo XVII y dos maneras de contarlo

2013

[EN] The paper analyses the accounts of two trips around the world conducted in the last two decades of the Seventeenth-century and published the one in Naples, 1699-1700, the other in mexico, a decade earlier. the first case was led by giovanni francesco gemelli Careri, a traveller vilified as fake by whom gave the final impetus to the genre of travel literature from french and British Enlightement. the second case was led by Alonso Ramirez, a traveller who was considered for three centuries just a fictional character. though two texts set in a peripheral place and time, from the point of view of European geopolitics of the moment and of the literary genre of travel writing as well, our ai…