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Sabir, Paiman Hama Salih; Jawad, Hoshang Farooq – English Language Teaching, 2019
Discourse Markers are one of an uninvestigated aspect of language in old and modern Kurdish linguistics, that has not been given due attention, neither by native nor non-native researchers. On this ground, it is hoped that the present study sheds light on this almost entirely ignored aspect of the language and this study is meant to be a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Phrase Structure
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Zhou, Xiaoying – English Language Teaching, 2018
Chomsky put forth his "A-over-A" theory in his book "Language and Mind", which means if a sentence contains (S… (A...) A…) S (A-over-A) structure, then this sentence can only be transformed on the basis of the larger phrase. In this paper the author puts forth the "Psychological Momentum" theory to analyze the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ambiguity (Semantics), Linguistic Theory, Psychological Patterns
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Khan, Tania Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
Pakistani English is a variety of English language concerning Sentence structure, Morphology, Phonology, Spelling, and Vocabulary. The one semantic element, which makes the investigation of Pakistani English additionally fascinating is the Vocabulary. Pakistani English uses many loan words from Urdu language and other local dialects, which have…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gao, Li; You, Qi-Dongmeng – English Language Teaching, 2013
By taking Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) as research approach, this study analyzes and discusses two news reports related to the event that a Uyghur man was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court in Xinjiang, a western province of China. Both news reports on that event are taken respectively from two newspapers published in…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Chinese, Grammar, Language Research
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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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AL-Malki, Eidhah Abdullah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Omar, Noor Abidah Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1999 by Biber et al. (p. 266) generic article uses are more than twice as common in academic English than in conversation or fiction. This is an area that English for Academic Purpose (EPA) textbooks and teachers would need to target more than general English teaching. This paper is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Indonesian Languages, Grammar, English (Second Language)
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Olsson, Margareta – English Language Teaching, 1973
Part of a project--Gothenburg, Teaching Methods in English--conducted at the University of Gothenburg and the Gothenburg School of Education in Sweden. (DD)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Experiments, Grammar
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Wigzell, R. – English Language Teaching, 1971
Earlier version of the article was read at the Third Annual Conference, Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, held in London, December 30, 1969 to January 2, 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Determiners (Languages)
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Salama, Nancy – English Language Teaching, 1973
Descriptors: Charts, English, Experiments, Grammar