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Download full textBani-Khair, Baker M.; Khawaldeh, Imad M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This research paper investigates two main volumes taken from "Children's Literature Association Quarterly"; the earlier one is Vol. 11 published in 1986, and the other one, a more recent one, Vol. 32 published in 2007, as to understand the differences and similarities regarding the approaches used in the articles to understand Children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Literary Genres, Literary Styles, Comparative Analysis
Hooti, Noorbakhsh; Borna, Mohammad Reza Moradi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study delves into investigating Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" and Rumi's "A Man of Baghdad," in which they have a dramatized sense of dissatisfaction, its causes and consequences in a symbolic manner. In fact, it has utilized the story of Rumi that its main character is in a condition similar to the main character in Kafka's…
Descriptors: Satisfaction, Comparative Analysis, Literary Genres, Medieval Literature
Méndez, David I.; Alcaraz, M. Ángeles – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
In this study we compare the titles of scientific letters and those of research papers published in the field of astrophysics in order to identify the possible differences and/or similarities between both genres in terms of several linguistic and extra-linguistic variables (length, lexical density, number of prepositions, number of compound…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Letters (Correspondence)
Décuré, Nicole – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
French science students do not read much in English. Does this reflect their reading habits in their native language? A study in the form of online questionnaires was conducted at Toulouse university which compared their reading habits in French and in English. A further study examined the way one particular group of students conducted their…
Descriptors: French, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Habits
Maleska, Kalina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This essay explores the theme of the double in Umberto Eco's "The Island of the Day Before," Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Zivko Chingo's "The Big Water." While traditionally the double is connected with the evil alter-ego of the protagonist, what brings these three works together (by an Italian, English and…
Descriptors: Novels, Literary Genres, Literary Devices, Twentieth Century Literature
Mokhtari, Elahe; Talebinezhad, Mohammed Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The aim of this research was to probed whether using supplementary readings (short stories containing idioms) increase conceptual fluency of L2 learners. In line with the goal of the study, first, the researcher selected a sample of 30 female lower-intermediate L2 learners from Sadr Private Language Centre in Isfahan. She selected them based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
