The Role of Learners’ Native Language in EFL Self-Efficacy Beliefs: an Exploratory Study by Blake Turnbull

“…The major findings show that Japanese university-level EFL students believed the use of Japanese may help to improve their English reading and writing skills more than their speaking and listening skills, as well as for the learning of grammar and vocabulary in particular. …”
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Nominative objects in Korean by Park Chongwon, Kim Jong-Bok

“…This article addresses the hitherto neglected topic of the Korean Nominative Object Construction (NOC) within the Cognitive Grammar (CG) framework. In the NOC, schematically illustrated as [N-NOM N-NOM PSYCH-PRED], the second NP behaves like a direct object. …”
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La stratégie de la « smart city » au Japon : expérimentations nationales et circulations globales by Raphaël Languillon-Aussel, Nicolas Leprêtre, Benoit Granier

“…The paper analyzes the “smart” communities, Japanese declination of “smart” cities. Rather than a model, the “smart” communities are part of what pragmatic sociology calls a grammar of the urban. …”
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Enhancing EFL writing skills for adult Deaf and hard of hearing individuals by Marta Chomicz, Marta Chomicz

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Fausses infinitives de but et mirativité by Geneviève Girard-Gillet

“…It seems that Construction Grammars might be interesting to deal with them, as other sentences which also posit the validation of an eventuality cannot be decomposed as the combination of a matrix clause and an embedded one: “he was stupid to refuse the job” (Kertz: 2006), or “that will teach you to buy a Japanese car”. …”
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