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Liping, Chen – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to Halliday, it is language that enables human beings to form the impression of experience, which consists of "goings-on"--happening, doing, sensing, meaning and being and becoming, either internally and externally. This is the experiential metafunction. With the focus on Transitivity, a political discourse has been studied…
Descriptors: Speeches, War, Foreign Policy, Public Officials
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Romero, Yanilis; Manjarres, Milton Pájaro – English Language Teaching, 2017
This article presents a case study which aims at analyzing the influence that the first language has on the learning of a foreign language. This research was conducted in an ESL classroom from a Language Center in England and was carried out with a Saudi Arabian student during a two-month period. In order to conduct this research, theoretical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language