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Wang, Yanlong – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The paper interprets Whorf's notion by turning to his original writings. Specifically, the paper makes a detailed analysis of Whorf's notion from anthropological linguistics, which largely deals with his famous distinction between overt category and covert category and his detailed description of the American Indian language Hopi; contrastive…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
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Nimehchisalem, Vahid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Research methods offer authentic ways to elicit useful data based on which informed decisions can be made. With respect to their design and data collection or analysis, research methods are traditionally divided into qualitative and quantitative types, each with its strengths and weaknesses. In response to new theories and technological…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Research Methodology
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Dirgeyasa, I Wy. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The obejectives of this research are to know the improvement of the students' achievement in poetry mastery and their perception regarding to the semiotic method in teaching and learning poetry in English Education Department, Languages and Art Faculty of State University of Medan. The research method used is the Classroom Action Research (CAR).…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Poetry, Semiotics, Foreign Countries
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Barjesteh, Hamed; Mukundan, Jayakaran; Vaseghi, Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The current paper presented theoretical assumptions behind language learning strategies (LLS) and an overview of methods used to identify learners' strategies, first, and then summarized what have been reported from large number of descriptive studies of strategies by language learners. Moreover, the paper tried to present the variety of…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews
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Zarifi, Abdolvahed; Mukundan, Jayakaran; Rezvani Kalajahi, Seyed Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
With the increasing interest among the pedagogy researchers in the use of corpus linguistics methodologies to study textbooks, there has emerged a similar enthusiasm among the materials developers to draw on empirical findings in the development of the state-of-the-art curricula and syllabi. In order for these research findings to have their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
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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