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Download full textZulhernanda, Windha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Curriculum is a set of educational design programs as a guide for learning activities. Recent changes in curriculum implementation in education have an impact on teachers in implementing them.This study investigated about the teacher perception on application the newest curriculum such as the 2013 curriclum for elementary school in Medan,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Interviews
Rahman, Fathu; Letlora, Prihe Slamatin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Language and culture are two aspects which interchange each other where the language is a medium to get information about the culture. As the product of language and culture, oral tradition plays a vital role in Maluku not only as the most powerful and sacred chant that regulate the life of people but also as the folk song that contains history,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Maintenance, Oral Tradition, Language Usage
Siregar, Nurhafni – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The objective of this study is to investigate how the classroom practice in teaching listening comprehension at English Education Program of STKIP Tapanuli Selatan in 2016/2017 Academic Year is. The informants of this research were all of second semester students of STKIP Tapanuli Selatan in 2016/2017 academic year and a lecturer of listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
Maznun, Mirrah Diyana Binti; Monsefi, Roya; Nimehchisalem, Vahid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study was conducted to investigate the difficulties encountered by undergraduate ESL students in writing the introduction section of their project reports. Five introduction sections of bachelor of arts students, majoring in English language, were analyzed and a lecturer was interviewed regarding the areas of the students' weaknesses. Swales'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Writing Skills, Research Reports
Nafissi, Zohreh; Rezaeipanah, Fariba; Monsefi, Roya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Iran's education system is exam-based and to gain admission to universities at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels, candidates have to sit a competitive examination. For this reason, developing an EAP course which prepares the candidates for these examinations is of crucial importance. The present study attempted to develop an EAP…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Pretests Posttests, Needs Assessment, Student Evaluation
Alhaysony, Maha; Alhaisoni, Eid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper investigates grammatical difficulty from the perspective of Saudi university students, of EFL as well as from the perspective of university teachers. It aims to find out which English grammar features are more difficult/less difficult than others. Furthermore, it attempts to determine the reasons and causes that account for such grammar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Alnasser, Suliman Mohammed Nasser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
In Saudi Arabia, staff members in higher educational English departments communicate with one another and with students outside the domain of the classroom on a daily basis using English (L2) and/or Arabic (L1) languages in different departmental encounters. The existence of English Language Policies (henceforth ELPs) in Saudi English departments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Sudajit-apa, Melada – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study examines how the Home for Children with Disabilities and disability identities were construed by Thai undergraduates in their website project through an analysis of metaphors. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) was the framework for analyzing the use of metaphors and the participants' enactment of identity and social representation. The…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Disability Identification, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Rahmi, Zelika – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The objectives of the study was to know the difficult words encountered by the gamers and to know their strategies in translating this unknown word. The researcher used interview as the instrument to collect the material needed for this particular study. It is found that unknown word combined with certain feeling such as disappointment creates…
Descriptors: Translation, Computer Games, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Sa'aida, Zainab – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The aim of this study is to explore (non)morphological processes that native speakers of Jordanian Urban Arabic and Jordanian Rural Arabic use to expand their own lexicon. Three Jordanian female respondents were interviewed to collect data. The data consist of transcriptions of recorded tokens, which were categorised into groups according to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Native Speakers, Lexicology
Al Khotaba, Eissa; Al Magarbeh, Bassam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The goal of this study is to investigate the influence of words categories on translating postgraduate students abstracts doing their M.A in Evaluation and Measurement at Mutah university in Jordan for the academic year 2014/2015. This qualitative and quantitative study includes 15 postgraduate students' abstracts in the field of Evaluation…
Descriptors: Translation, Graduate Students, Universities, Documentation
Turjoman, Mona O. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This sociolinguistics study investigates a new phenomenon that has recently surfaced in the field of code-switching among Saudi females residing in the Western region of Saudi Arabia. This phenomenon basically combines bound Arabic pronouns, tense markers or definite article to English free morphemes or the combination of bound English affixes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Code Switching (Language), Morphemes
Farnia, Maryam; Sattar, Hiba Qusay Abdul; Mei, Hooi Chee – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Politeness conventions vary across cultures and so is impoliteness and rudeness. In some cases, what is considered rude in one culture or a society is not necessarily rude or impolite in another. This cannot be explained unless more studies on the use of language functions in a specific culture are conducted. The aim of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Agustina, Lia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Many research findings have stated that the use of technology in EFL classroom results invaluable achievements and develops positive attitudes. Technology may integrate sounds, pictures, motions, and colors that fi ure out a natural picture of real life. The aim of the study was to enhance the students' attitude toward learning English by using…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Business English, Second Language Learning
Purba, Rodearta – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The objective of this study is to find out whether discussion starter story significantly improves the achievement on narrative text of the first grade students of Senior High School. This study was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this study is the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Pangururan in academic…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
