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Download full textGenc, Zubeyde Sinem; Armagan, Kiymet Selin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of the study is to investigate gender-bound language use in Turkish and English languages and to identify the differences and similarities across cultures and genders in the plays with family and social themes. Four English and five Turkish plays were chosen randomly for comparison. The number of words in the plays were taken into…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Statistical Analysis, Turkish, Drama
Mirzahoseini, Zeynab; Gowhary, Habib; Azizifar, Akbar; Mirzahoseini, Ehsan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study investigates the position of adjuncts in sentences in English and Persian languages. The numbers of 136 sentences are collected from English story books and their Persian translations. The frequencies of each position (initial, middle, final) of adjuncts are determined by SPSS software and frequencies in English sentences are matched…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, English, Contrastive Linguistics, Sentence Structure
Xiaoqin, Liu – English Language Teaching, 2017
By taking Hyland and Tse's (2004) interactional metadiscourse model, this study attempts to compare the incidence of the interactional metadiscourse markers in letters to shareholders of American and Chinese companies in the financial industry and their rhetorical functions. This study makes American corpus of 41 letters and Chinese corpus of 37…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, North American English, Letters (Correspondence)
Direct linkLago, Sol; Sloggett, Shayne; Schlueter, Zoe; Chow, Wing Yee; Williams, Alexander; Lau, Ellen; Phillips, Colin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Previous studies have shown that speakers of languages such as German, Spanish, and French reactivate the syntactic gender of the antecedent of a pronoun to license gender agreement. As syntactic gender is assumed to be stored in the lexicon, this has motivated the claim that pronouns in these languages reactivate the lexical entry of their…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Walter, Daniel R.; van Compernolle, Rémi Adam – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper, we explore the results of a short-term concept-based pedagogical intervention on the learning of declension as a meaning-making resource among US university learners of German. The pedagogical approached derived its principles from Vygotskian sociocultural psychology, namely the role of explicit, scientific (i.e., abstract and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lin, Chia-Yen; Lau, Ken; Cousineau, Jacob – ELT Journal, 2018
The textual and interpersonal functions of modifiers are extensively discussed in the literature. However, how these linguistic devices can be strategically used to assist lecture comprehension has been under-investigated, particularly in EFL/ESL contexts. Drawing on corpus analyses, interviews, and questionnaires, this study compares Taiwanese…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics
Liu, Ping; Huang, Xu – Higher Education Studies, 2017
This study adopts the revised interpersonal model of metadiscourse to discover whether and to what extent Chinese authors employ a varying amount of Interactional Metadiscourse (IM) in the past decade in English abstracts of economics Research Articles (RAs). The data was drawn from a prestigious economics journal in China to compose a corpus of…
Descriptors: Economics, Research Reports, Discourse Analysis, Chinese
Linking Adverbials in First-Year Korean University EFL Learners' Writing: A Corpus-Informed Analysis
Ha, Myung-Jeong – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study examines the frequency and usage patterns of linking adverbials in Korean students' essay writing in comparison with native English writing. The learner corpus used in the present study is composed of 105 essays that were produced by first-year university students in Korea. The control corpus was taken from the American LOCNESS…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Asians
Zufferey, Sandrine; Gygax, Pascal M. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
Previous research has suggested that some discourse relations are easier to convey implicitly than others due to cognitive biases in the interpretation of discourse. In this article we argue that relations involving a perspective shift, such as confirmation relations, are difficult to convey implicitly. We assess this claim with two empirical…
Descriptors: Role, Perspective Taking, Discourse Analysis, French
Chen, Jingwen – English Language Teaching, 2017
"Although" is a frequently used subordinating conjunction in English. However, non-nativeness is often observed in Chinese EFL learners' "although" output during pedagogical practice. This paper aims at exploring the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners' "although" employment in Chinese EFL learners' writing. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bano, Zakia; Shakir, Aleem – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The university prospectus is supposed to be a forceful and pioneering text in promoting and marketing higher education. The present research will deal with the disparities in the frequencies of first and second person pronouns in online prospectuses in cross-cultural linguistics from marketing point of view. The research question is to which…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Student Recruitment, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement
Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Belletti, Adriana; Costa, João; Friedmann, Naama; Gavarró, Anna; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Tuller, Laurice; Lobo, Maria; Andelkovic, Darinka; Argemí, Núria; Avram, Larisa; Berends, Sanne; Brunetto, Valentina; Delage, Hélène; Ezeizabarrena, María-José; Fattal, Iris; Haman, Ewa; van Hout, Angeliek; de López, Kristine Jensen; Katsos, Napoleon; Kologranic, Lana; Krstic, Nadezda; Kraljevic, Jelena Kuvac; Miekisz, Aneta; Nerantzini, Michaela; Queraltó, Clara; Radic, Zeljana; Ruiz, Sílvia; Sauerland, Uli; Sevcenco, Anca; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Theodorou, Eleni; van der Lely, Heather; Veenstra, Alma; Weston, John; Yachini, Maya; Yatsushiro, Kazuko – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of third-person pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. This methodology allows us to compare the acquisition of pronominals in languages that lack object clitics ("pronoun languages") with languages that employ clitics in the relevant context…
Descriptors: Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages)
Abu-Melhim Abdel-Rahman – English Language Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if first language interference does play a significant role in the use of articles in English by native speakers of Arabic as compared to other ESL learners. An error analysis was conducted on the use of English articles in essays taken from two groups of advanced ESL learners. The essays were composed by…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Taxonomy, Role
Tizazu, Yoseph – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study reports the dominant linguistic errors that occur in the written productions of Arba Minch University (hereafter AMU) students. A sample of paragraphs was collected for two years from students ranging from freshmen to graduating level. The sampled compositions were then coded, described, and explained using error analysis method. Both…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Morphology (Languages)
Grünloh, Thomas; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Language Learning and Development, 2015
In the current study we investigate whether 2- and 3-year-old German children use intonation productively to mark the informational status of referents. Using a story-telling task, we compared children's and adults' intonational realization via pitch accent (H*, L* and de-accentuation) of New, Given, and Contrastive referents. Both children and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Patterns
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