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Hoque, Muhammad Azizul; Ali, Md Maksud; Puteh-Behak, Fariza; Baharun, Hazleena – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Although lexical borrowing from the English language into Bangla has been reported in the literature, not many studies have investigated the nature and the extent to which this borrowing has taken place in relation to Bangla short stories. This study examined five Bangla short stories, which were selected based on purposive sampling. Our analysis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
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Park, Shinjae – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Based on the quantitative analysis of L2 English texts from Korean undergraduates, the present paper demonstrates the possibility of distinguishing L2 speaking proficiency with differing measures of syntactic complexity in English writing. To this end, 14 measures of complexity were gauged using an L2 Syntactic Analyzer (Lu, 2010) in 89 EFL essays…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Lubishtani, Manjola – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The main purpose of this paper is the functional analysis and argumentation of text connectors as tools for implementation of the textual connectivity not only in the local but also global context. Given the comparative nature of this paper, we will be comparing typology and relationships expressed by the connectors in some of the argumentative…
Descriptors: Semantics, Correlation, Indo European Languages, Classification
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Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This theoretical study aims at raising awareness of the existence of lexical false friends (FFs) in English and Arabic as genetically unrelated languages. It also provides a general categorization for FFs from a semantic point of view. A sample of more than fifty FF pairs is examined by contrasting their form, pronunciation and meaning. The…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Metalinguistics
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Teeranon, Phanintra – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study investigates the acoustic characteristics of Thai tones produced by Chinese students learning Thai through the "Tone Application", and conducts an attitude test towards the use of the Tone Application. A comparison of Thai tones pronounced by the participants with 40 native Thai speakers was also conducted. The acoustic…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Intonation, Thai, Chinese
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Demir, Cüneyt – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
Collocations, no matter where to use them, are an important linguistic issue if it is native fluency that is longed for in academic writing. In line with that, the present study aimed at increasing the awareness towards the importance of collocations in order to have native fluency in academic writing; making some suggestions regarding involvement…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Halitoglu, Vedat – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Many people from Turkey emigrated to European countries as a result of the bilateral agreements signed between Turkey and related countries after the 1950s. The temporary travels to these countries left their place to permanent settlements, and the Turkish children living there were faced with the danger of alienation from their mother tongue and…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Turkish, Native Language, Academic Achievement
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Awadh, Awadh Nasser Munassar; Khan, Ansarullah Shafiull – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims at investigating the challenges that Yemeni translation students encounter when translating neologisms from English into Arabic. It also aims at comparing students' translation with outcomes of machine translation (MT). The authors follow the descriptive and comparative methods in conducting this study. To achieve the objective of…
Descriptors: Barriers, Translation, English (Second Language), Semitic Languages
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Bal-Gezegin, Betül – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
This corpus-based study investigates to what extent L1 Turkish speakers of English produce lexical bundles in their academic writing. To this end, a corpus of published research articles in six academic disciplines was collected. The corpus included one-million words in total. The four and five-word lexical bundles in the corpus were identified…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Turkish
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Kim, Hyein Amber – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The main goals of this paper are to identify race in Korean language classrooms; articulate the connection between Korean language learners' racial identities and Korean language learning; and discuss implications for Korean language educators. In order to do this, I first examine literature on English language education to glean themes related to…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Attitudes, Korean, Second Language Learning
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Asmali, Mehmet; Çelik, Handan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Metaphors reflect the way people think and know the world. When they are considered within teaching profession, they can be strong agents revealing teachers? beliefs about their profession. They may also explore the meaning that teachers attach to themselves. Despite their strength to shed light on how teachers conceptualize themselves, metaphor…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Demir, Cüneyt – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
In the field of ELT, a growing awareness has been paid to the use of correct and appropriate word combinations. Of methods and techniques existed in the literature, the issue of lexical collocation gets a great deal of attention. However, one of the main obstacles, particularly for non-native writers (NNW), is indeterminate knowledge of word…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Periodicals
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Özüdogru, Fatma – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study aimed to analyze curriculum evaluation studies conducted in foreign language education between the years 2005 and 2016 in terms of the levels the studies were conducted in, sample groups, sample size, research methods and curriculum evaluation models via descriptive content analysis. Searching various data bases, 87 studies, which are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sample Size
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Januševa, Violeta; Jurukovska, Jana – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
The paper analyses the conceptual formulation of neologisms in various dictionaries of Macedonian language, other Slavic and non-Slavic languages, as well as in primary school Macedonian language textbooks, by putting special emphasis on the role of, both, time criterion, i.e. the period of time in which a lexical unit is present in the active…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Soltani, Azimeh; Kheirzadeh, Shiela – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This study aimed to explore EFL students' use of writing strategies and their attitudes towards reading-to-write and writing-only tasks. The primary purpose of this study was to see whether there was any significant difference between the writing performance of reading-to-write and writing-only task groups of Iranian EFL learners. Also, this study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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