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Al-Rawi, Maather Mohammad; Al-Shurafa, Nuha Suleiman Daoud – English Language Teaching, 2016
The main aim of this paper is to examine the syntactic status of a selected text-corpus focus, with a special focus on the verb within its Verb-Phrase. The major claim is that the power of the verb in its VP is loaded syntactically through which the speaker's desire of the doublespeak within X-Phemism is achieved. In order to fulfill this claim, a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Phrase Structure, Language Usage
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He, Qingshun – English Language Teaching, 2016
English language learners may be confused in identifying the grammatical category of such conjunctive expressions as "before," "after" and "since" introducing non-finite "-ing" clauses. In this article, we will conduct a corpus-based investigation of hypotactic conjunctions and conjunctive prepositions…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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Chien, Chi-ying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The study of teaching translation has always been influenced by the theory of foreign language teaching, regardless of the theoretical or practical approaches the researchers used. In the classroom, students are frequently bored with translating grammar because they are seldom taught how grammar works. In view of this teaching gap, this study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Zhengyuan – English Language Teaching, 2012
Idiom variation is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon which has raised a lot of research questions. The past approach was either formal or functional. Both of them did not pay much attention to cognitive factors of language users. By putting idiom variation in the framework of linguistic subjectivity, we have offered a new perspective in the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Guidelines, Grammar, Language Usage
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Yoke, Soo Kum; Hasan, Nor Haniza – English Language Teaching, 2014
The teaching of English grammar to second language learners is usually a tedious, stressful and time consuming activity and even after all the effort, students have generally found these lessons boring and confusing. As such, innovative language instructors have been trying different approaches to the teaching of grammar in their classrooms. Using…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Xu, Jian – English Language Teaching, 2009
Based on a review of the historical and current studies on modality, this paper aims at interpreting metaphor of modality and its functions in advertising English according to theories of modality system and metaphor of modality in systemic-functional linguistics with a corpus we have collected. It is pointed out that metaphor of modality, a usual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advertising, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning