As Jurkovic (2016) does, Basol and Kartal (2019) test the potential effectiveness of cinema when dealing with English pragmatics. They conduct a frequency analysis of four film scripts to check whether or not British and American films can be used to teach micro-level discourse markers (DMs)...
Dr Tehrani said: "It's remarkable that these stories have survived so long without being written down. They are older than the English language and would have been first told in a language that is now extinct." Many of the fairy tales we know today were first written down in the 17th ...
PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale It is clear that English is an international language. It has also become one of the main subjects at school in Vietnam. Therefore, teaching English in general and English prepositions of place in particular is so important. Techniques are always mentioned in ...
Such a high level of occurrences of the zero link lead Fanego to conclude that “Shakespeare’s predilection for the zero-clause is idiosyncratic and seems to have no parallels in either earlier or later periods” (Fanego 1990: 147). Suárez Gómez (2000) has also studied the behaviour of ...
Her results showed, on the one hand, that bilinguals outperformed monolinguals at a macrostructural level and, on the other hand, that bilingual children developed better global narrative 1 While metalinguistic awareness refers to the ability to think about the language, metacognitive awareness refers...
Indeed, is this specific to native speakers of a Germanic language or is it a universal developmental pattern when acquiring the tap–trill contrast? One objective of the present study is thus to examine whether speakers of a typologically distinct L1, namely, Mandarin, demonstrate similar ...
education sciences Article Developing a Task-Based Dialogue System for English Language Learning Kuo-Chen Li 1,* , Maiga Chang 2,3 and Kuan-Hsing Wu 1 1 Information Management Department, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan City 320314, Taiwan; xeaiow@gmail.com 2 School of Computing and ...
Literature has highlighted that bilingual students are inclined to be labelled as deficient both linguistically and cognitively in education, from the primary to the tertiary level, in many English-speaking countries despite their bilingual potentials and behaviors [11,17,21–23,25]. In educational ...
1.1. Literature Review There are three key aspects worth considering in designing an effective support system for EMI teachers: faculty development (FD), institutional support, and different needs by teacher profile (e.g., English language competence, EMI teaching experience, and relation to an EMI...