Category: Linguistics 473

  • Politeness Strategy in Same- and Cross-Sex Interviewing

    Present the research topic and aims of the research The research topic of the study conducted by Barbara Johnstone, Kathleen Ferrara, and Judith Mattson Bean is gender, politeness, and discourse management in same-sex and cross-sex opinion-poll interviews. The objective of the research was to understand the means of the utilization of scripts when researching issues…

  • Language and Learning in the Hellenistic Age

    Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Final Assessment Relevance to CLCV Lectures Works Cited Introduction The book analyses how various scholars and philosophers provided vital input to the foundations of language during the Hellenistic age. The main consideration in the book is to engage the philosophy of language, linguistics, and other aspects such as the nature…

  • Female Arab Learners’ English Speaking Problems

    Introduction The English language has increasingly become important throughout the world today particularly in the Arab world. This is why educators and parents in Saudi Arabia have become concerned about their children’s limited level in English especially in oral communication. English is a major problem in Saudi especially among the female English major graduate who…

  • Matthew Effect and the Reader Self-Perception Scale

    Despite the popular idea that, due to technological advances, which children are fascinated by, it is very hard to get a child excited with reading, the latter can, in fact, be turned into a child’s hobby rather easily. According to what Dr. Peter Afferbach states, watching children learn to read, one can observe the Matthew…

  • The Literary Work Concepts

    Table of Contents Introduction Power of Imagination The Tone References Introduction The literary work that we have thoroughly discussed this week was very significant and interesting to me in many ways. This literal work made me understand literature in a different way. Generally literature restores our past, arouses our imagination, praises the common place, stirs…

  • Features of Building and Understanding Sentences

    Brown, R. (1973). A first language. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. The present work is dedicated to the peculiarities of sentence construction and sentence understanding since the author believes these issues are of central importance to understanding English grammar and successfully mastering it. He outlines several essential aspects of sentence construction: relationships within a…

  • Function Analysis of the Information from Interview

    Introduction Communication is arguably the cornerstone on which any successful relationship, be it business or personal, is built. The importance of effective communication as a means of gathering information is universally acknowledged and a lot of research has been taken on the subject and numerous books are written to help people improve their skills to…

  • New Lexical Items: Long-Term Retention

    Introduction Researchers have concentrated on incidental vocabulary learning, especially when examining the efficacy of glosses. From the backdrop of most empirical research studies, Rott and Williams (2003) have established that incidental vocabulary learning can be swiftly enhanced when glosses are made available. This conclusive finding works best when both non-gloss conditions and gloss conditions are…

  • Language Learning: Mostafa Papi’s and Tae-Young Kim’s Works

    Table of Contents Summary Introduction Literature Review Research Procedures Presentation, Analysis, and Discussion of Data Summary and Conclusions Overall Format and Style References Summary The authors of both articles conducted a descriptive research study by adopting a longitudinal data collection method among the participants for 10-12 months. However, the instruments of data collection differed. The…

  • Contrastive Discourse Markers of Saudi English Learners

    Table of Contents Introduction Research Problem Research Questions Hypotheses Objectives of the Study Significance of the Study Limitations of the Study Operational Definitions of Terms Methodology References Introduction Expressing negation through conversational exchanges can serve many functions (Gönen, 2011, p. 253). At this point, the exchange of information between speakers can be improved through the…