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This study examines teachers’ attitudes towards the correction of spoken errors through one-to-one interviews and a belief questionnaire. It also investigates the relationship between those standpoints and their teaching practice in classroom context and accordingly suggests more effective ways to deal with students’ spoken errors. For convenience, the two terms “error” and “mistake” are used interchangeably in this study.

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Aims and objectives of the study: This study is designed with an aim to improve students‟ writing performance of English by applying genre-based approach to teach writing skill to students.

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The study aims to: Investigate some common textual patterns and their signaling devices in Disease outbreak online news (DONs) in English and Vietnamese; find out the similarities and differences between the textual patterns and signaling devices in DONs in English and Vietnamese.

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Aims and Objectives of the study: To find out the teachers‟ theoretical knowledge of CLT; to investigate whether there is a connection between the teachers‟ theoretical knowledge of CLT and their practices or not; to find out some reasons for the gaps between the teachers‟ theoretical knowledge of CLT and their practices.

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This study primarily concentrates on the metaphors used in economic reports. Its aim is to have an insight into how metaphors are correlated to human physical experience and constructed in economic reports. In addition, the analysis of this correlation will set foundation for later categorization of the source domains which are exploited in the metaphors in these economic reports.

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This study aims to: Supply readers with basic understanding of speech acts, conversation analysis, adjacency pairs, and preference structure; explore the general patterns of preferred and dispreferred second turns structure used in the first episode of the film Downton Abbey; investigate the linguistic features signaling preferred and dispreferred replies in the episode; provide film critics with practical knowledge of conversations comprising preferred and dispreferred second-turn questions.

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The present study takes as its main focus the following objective: Identifying difficulties that class 11D2 students at Nguyen Viet Xuan High School, Vinh Phuc Province experience in studying listening comprehension skills.

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This study aimed at pointing out the similarities and differences in the types of pun used in English and Vietnamese advertisements in men‘s magazines. That aim is achieved by identifying the common types of pun used in advertisements and the devices used in creating these types of pun.

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The aims of the study are to investigate the factors affecting learning goals and motivation of the second-year students in learning English at Military Academy of Logistics. The main purpose covering the study is to identify how students’ learning goals are related to their motivation.

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This study aims to investigate idioms that carry conceptual metaphor about power based on the theory of Lakoff and Johnson. To go further, this study is done to explore the similarities and the differences between the use of metaphor about power in English and Vietnamese idioms that reflect the culture of each language community.

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Aims of the study: Identifying common English compound nouns in information technology and their Vietnamese equivalents; analyzing the translation strategies applied to translate these terms.

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The first aim of this study was to review the literature about foreign language learning anxiety so that I can learn more about what has been known and what has not been regarding the topic of speaking anxiety. This knowledge will help me to design the appropriate intervention in my class with my students.

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The study aims at making a conversation analysis of interruptions in the three rounds of the 2008 U.S. presidential debates, and then giving some theoretical and pedagogical implications for utilizing interruptions in debates as well as other challenging and competitive speech exchanges.

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The study aimed to investigate the EMI program, especially related to the learners. It identified strategies that Vietnamese students used in order to deal with challenges they faced. Based on these findings, recommendations to promote learners‟ proficiency and improve the implementation of EMI policies are made.

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The study was conducted with two aims. Firstly, the study is expected to find out students‟ attitudes towards pre-writing activities. Added to this, it aims to explore the effects of pre-writing activities on the 12th graders‟ learning of paragraph writing.

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This study is conducted with the hope to make some comparisons between the ways Vietnamese and Filipino people greet each other, especially among those working in companies. Main focus is going to be put on verbal language in the business circumstance. The results of this study may be useful for any Vietnamese student who wants to take a business course in The Philippines; or for the Filipino who want to study, travel or do business in Vietnam.

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The specific aims of the study are: - Investigate the most common mistakes when pronouncing English wordfinal consonants “l, ʃ, t, d, k, g” by Vietnamese learners at Espeed English Center; identify the reasons for students’ problems of pronunciation; propose possible appropriate techniques to correct their problems.

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Aims of the study: The aims of this study are to find the way to improve vocabulary retention of the 6A1 students of TMJHS and to motivate them in learning English vocabulary.

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This study, which focuses on vocabulary teaching methods, is going to investigate the application of multimodality to the vocabulary learning of students from the perspectives of using images in some communicative activities to enhance students‟ vocabulary retention. The major aim of the research is to investigate whether the use of images in vocabulary teaching can help improve students‟ vocabulary retention. The participants in the study are students at Hanoi Architectural University.

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To realize this aim, the paper will: Find the information about vocabulary learning strategies that talented students in English language selection used when they study words; draw the most and least popular vocabulary learning strategies used by talented students in English language selection.

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