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Uba, Sani Yantandu Uba – English Language Teaching, 2020
The aim of conducting this study came from a need to explore contrastive study in using metadiscourse features between English and Hausa in research article genre. This study investigated what metadiscourse features are frequently used across two languages in research article genre. A sub-corpus of ten research articles was compiled from each…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, African Languages, Discourse Analysis
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Jianli, Liang – English Language Teaching, 2015
Descriptions of the classifications or models of English language have been proposed by a number of scholars who attempt to explain the differences in the ways English is used in different localities. This paper reviews three models of classification of English language, with an aim of drawing implications on how English Language Teaching (ELT) in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Ayeomoni, Moses Omoniyi – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper views Nigeria as a multilingual country with diverse languages and cultures to the extent that the total number of languages spoken right now in Nigeria is about 500 (See Adegbite 2010). This linguistic diversity in the country has occasioned the development and the spread of the concepts of bilingualism, multilingualism, diglossia and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Language Usage