Data were originally collected from a sample of 80 teenage Swedish L2 English learners and comprise a questionnaire, language diaries, vocabulary tests, assessed essays, and grades.
Some (like the Whittalls) retained British nationality over generations of Ottoman life, and it is their English-language diaries, letters and documents that provide Mr Milton with his best material.
The language in the diary suggests that the respondent was a fairly thoughtful observer and not prone to exaggeration, because his diary entries accurately describe, when compared with the official report, ship hospital admission numbers and details aboard during the outbreak.
Malala became well known in Pakistan as the author of a blog for the BBC's Urdu-language Web site, Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl, in which she chronicled life under Taliban rule, after the Swat Valley was overrun by the Islamist militants in 2009.
Her German was excellent, her French near-perfect — probably it was her first language — but in her diary she admitted that she found it difficult to follow wide-ranging conversations in English.
Ms. Yousafzai became an outspoken advocate for the education for girls in Pakistan at the age of 11, when the BBC's Urdu-language service published her "Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl".
His Saturday columns imitated the language and style of Samuel Pepys' diary, and Adams is credited with a renewal of interest in Pepys.
Here, it felt to me that what made the light come off the story was (1) the language (the way the truncated diary syntax produced strange little textual moments) and (2) anything that heightened the ambiguity of Eva's actions.
He writes to his college friend Rufus Sixsmith, "Mention is made of the gold rush, so I suppose we are in 1849 to 1850.... Something shifty about the journal's authenticity — seems too structured for a genuine diary, and its language doesn't ring quite true".
Being a pen pal is now a source of joy for me; I am getting my therapy, language courses, dating, friendship, news, diary keeping, and diplomacy all in one!
