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Chaudhry, Sajid M.; Christopher, Anne A.; Krishnasamy, Hariharan A/L N. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study examines the issue of gender discrimination in the post death scenario of obituarial discourse. It aims to identify the way Pakistani newspaper obituaries recognize and project males and females after their deaths. A total of 601 paid obituaries published in a year's time span in Pakistani English newspapers were evaluated for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Death, English
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Naeini, Nazgol Nekoui; Shahrokhi, Mohsen – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present study intended to examine the impact of methodology on EFL vocabulary learning of elementary school boys and girls. To achieve this end, 40 elementary female and male students aged 9-10 were selected from among 60 students studying at a language institute in Isfahan, Iran. The students were selected based on the results of an overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Huang, Xiaoyan; Sultan, Robert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study examines terms of address currently used by employees of Chinese business enterprises. The authors find that a speaker's address selections are related significantly to the gender of the speaker, the location of the enterprise in Eastern or Western China, and the ownership type of the enterprise; that is, whether the enterprise is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Language Usage, Gender Differences
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Subramaniam, Bathuma; Palanisamy, Kalaimakal – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study explores the usage of language learning strategies in private secondary Schools in Malaysia. Hypothesis was made that most of the students do not practice the language learning strategies completely and accurately. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between language learning strategies and practices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Private Schools, Second Language Learning
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Kalali, Nazanin Naderi; Pishkar, Kian – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The main thrust of this study was to determine whether a genre-based instruction improve the writing proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 30 homogenous Iranian BA learners studying English at Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch were selected as the participants of the study through a version of TOEFL test as the proficiency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)