Motion is a universal concept in common human perception. In the word system of a language, verb is inherently a very complex real word, both in terms of grammar and semantics, that complexity is due to the influence of the semantics of this word. However, in most of the previous studies, the authors often only focused on studying single word…

Ethnocultural units comprise verbal, non-verbal and mental expressions, symbolically representing cultural and spiritual values of an ethnic group or a nation. These units can help in transmitting not only the history and culture of an ethnic group but also preserve its traditions and values across generations. The purpose of this diachronic…

The aim of this study is to make a semiotic analysis of William Shakespeare's play titled Othello in the light of Jean-Claude Coquet's "Theory of Instances of Enunciation" and compare Turkish translations of the contexts analyzed in the original play from semiotics of translation point of view with a view to determining the meaning…

The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures in three global language teaching textbooks, namely "Interchange," "English Result," and "American English…

This paper attempts to examine in a descriptive way the pioneering model of "World Englishes" proposed by Kachru in the mid-1980s that allocates the presence of English into three concentric circles: The "Inner" Circle, the "Outer" Circle, and the "Expanding" Circle. The Inner Circle presents the countries…

Teaching discourses essentially presuppose the use of rhetoric. This study that doubly registers as EFL Research and Communication Research draws on the Theory of Discourse Analysis and Rhetoric Theory of Communication to investigate rhetoric undertones in the teaching discourses of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers engaged in online…

Due to the popularization of foreign language study, more and more people from education field further enhance their exploration and researches in how to apply second acquisition theories into classroom teaching. This paper probes into the orientation, research objects, age, language environment and classroom activities of second language…

The popularization of portable media players such as the "iPod," and the delivery of audio and video content through content management software such as "iTunes" mean that there is a wealth of language learning resources freely available to users who may download them and use them anywhere at any time. These resources vary greatly in quality and…

Discusses and analyzes the Bosco/DiPietro descriptive framework for the analysis of foreign language instruction. Refines the psychological and linguistic features originally presented by Bosco and DiPietro. Proposes the creation of two new features--analytic and communicative--to replace the functional feature central to Bosco and DiPietro's…

This paper suggests methods for teaching the Russian verbs that govern what are loosely termed "objects" in oblique cases. The case government of such verbs is not necessarily an individual irregularity. Definite patterns emerge, both morphological and semantic, to facilitate grouping these verbs into classes. Russian verbs requiring genitive…