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Download full textIsyaku, Hassan; Yuepeng, Ma; Mahdi, Qusay; Sarhan, Gassan; Salih, Nahid; Paramasivan, Shamala – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The research investigated the thanking/gratitude strategies of three distinct cultures; Hausa, Chinese and Arabic languages with the aim of finding out the different strategies used by them and how different they are in their use of such strategies. The study employs Cheng (2005) Taxonomy of gratitude strategies in analyzing the data which was…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Pragmatics, African Culture, African Languages
Jalalian, Farzad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The inability of English language learners to recall English concepts is a major challenge faced by teachers. This paper aims to determine the effectiveness of video educational games with a linguistic approach in English language education of the 2nd grade high school students. This is an applied and quasi-experimental study conducted in 2016.…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Sampling, Control Groups
Soomro, Muhammad Arif; Memon, Natasha; Memon, Shumaila Aijaz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Teaching industry of English as a second or foreign language has grown massively in recent times in Pakistan. There are many public sectors universities and English academies established all over Pakistan offering English language proficiency courses. Therefore, this wave led to conduct this research. The purpose of conducting this study was to…
Descriptors: Best Practices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arif, Mahmoud; Abdullah, Imran Ho – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The major goal of this research is to investigate learners' metaphorical comprehension in L1 and its effect on the metaphorical comprehension in L2 by Iraqi EFL learners at secondary school. In which, they encounter difficulties understanding English texts and lectures, primarily when metaphor is included, which leads to the misunderstanding of…
Descriptors: Native Language, Figurative Language, Semitic Languages, Proverbs
Setayesh, Mahnam; Marzban, Amin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present study primarily aimed at investigating the effect of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on development of the Iranian EFL learners' ESP Reading Comprehension Skills. Moreover, it was aimed at investigating the probable difference between the TBLT-instructed students of Law and Mechanical Engineering with respect to their ESP reading…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Statistical Analysis
