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Download full textMaznun, Mirrah Diyana Binti; Monsefi, Roya; Nimehchisalem, Vahid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This study was conducted to investigate the difficulties encountered by undergraduate ESL students in writing the introduction section of their project reports. Five introduction sections of bachelor of arts students, majoring in English language, were analyzed and a lecturer was interviewed regarding the areas of the students' weaknesses. Swales'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Writing Skills, Research Reports
Purba, Rodearta – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The objective of this study is to find out whether discussion starter story significantly improves the achievement on narrative text of the first grade students of Senior High School. This study was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this study is the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Pangururan in academic…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
Zulhernanda, Windha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Curriculum is a set of educational design programs as a guide for learning activities. Recent changes in curriculum implementation in education have an impact on teachers in implementing them.This study investigated about the teacher perception on application the newest curriculum such as the 2013 curriclum for elementary school in Medan,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Interviews
Rahman, Fathu; Letlora, Prihe Slamatin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Language and culture are two aspects which interchange each other where the language is a medium to get information about the culture. As the product of language and culture, oral tradition plays a vital role in Maluku not only as the most powerful and sacred chant that regulate the life of people but also as the folk song that contains history,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Maintenance, Oral Tradition, Language Usage
Al Khotaba, Eissa; Al Magarbeh, Bassam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The goal of this study is to investigate the influence of words categories on translating postgraduate students abstracts doing their M.A in Evaluation and Measurement at Mutah university in Jordan for the academic year 2014/2015. This qualitative and quantitative study includes 15 postgraduate students' abstracts in the field of Evaluation…
Descriptors: Translation, Graduate Students, Universities, Documentation
Agustina, Lia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Many research findings have stated that the use of technology in EFL classroom results invaluable achievements and develops positive attitudes. Technology may integrate sounds, pictures, motions, and colors that fi ure out a natural picture of real life. The aim of the study was to enhance the students' attitude toward learning English by using…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Business English, Second Language Learning
Gathigia, Moses Gatambuki; Njoroge, Martin C. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The acquisition of idiomatic expressions is one of the primary challenges to learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in multilingual contexts such as Kenya; yet, the learners are expected to use these expressions in their writing. The study on which this paper is based sought to assess the teaching of English idiomatic expressions in Kenyan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
Shahini, Gholamhossein; Shahamirian, Fatemeh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This qualitative study, using an open interview, set out to investigate the roles six factors, including age, university education, teachers of English Language institutes, teaching English, dictionary, and note-taking, played in improving English speaking fluency of seventeen fluent Iranian EFL speakers. The participants were chosen purposefully…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Shokri, Natasha; Asl, Moussa Pourya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The social structure of the family has always been in the state of transformation. In the past centuries, the nuclear family was replaced with a Patriarchal Family which lasted for only two centuries from 16th to the beginning of 18th century. In this new structure of the family, men were privileged to play the role of the master and the women…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Females, Family Structure, Sex Role
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
Xue, Gong; Lingling, Liu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This paper first based on the theory of cooperative learning research. It analyses the characteristics and advantages of cooperative learning under the multimedia network environment. And then take China Three Gorges University and Taiwan I-Shou University English major students for example, using questionnaires and interviews to investigate the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Style, Feedback (Response)
Wushishi, Aminu Aliyu; Baba, Muhammed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Nigeria is a country with over 520 different languages, the multitude nature of languages is making instructions so difficult in Schools, particularly in North-Central Nigeria where they have students with different language background attending the same school. The difficulty of smooth teaching in this kind of situation is leading to attrition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions, Labor Turnover, Teacher Attitudes
Hermilinda Abas, Imelda; Aziz, Noor Hashima Abd – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The study was aimed at understanding the EFL Indonesian students' perspective on the writing process. The pilot study involved two male Indonesian postgraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. The Indonesian students were selected based on the following criteria: (1) had enough knowledge in English writing, indicated by the completion of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pilot Projects
Krish, Pramela; Zabidi, Noraza; Noor, Noorizah Mohd – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Blogs are increasingly used in formal education to create personal learning environments, providing self-directed learners with more freedom, choice, and control over their learning. This paper will share findings of a study where students at the tertiary level were asked to commence blogs as a supplementary platform to engage in the learning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Journals, Electronic Journals
Hardiyanti, Rizki – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Bilingual child ability in two languages is become popular issue in the comparison of those two languages. In this paper, the Indonesian bilingual child has parent, school and course using English actively, then his environment using Bahasa Indonesia. This research was conducted to measure ability and difficulties faced by bilingual child in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Qualitative Research, Observation
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