14 articles in this issue
Dominika Skrzypek
This paper considers the role of animacy in the overt marking of indirect anaphors, i.e., noun phrases (NP), which introduce new discourse referents, that are grounded in the preceding discourse by means of a grounding element, an anchor. The indirect ana... see more
Daping Wu,Adcharawan Buripakdi
Research on EFL doctoral thesis writing is booming. The literature indicates a link between doctoral thesis writing and identity formation. Despite the call for scholarly attention on doctoral thesis writers, writers of doctoral theses in English as a For... see more
Svetlana Vladimirovna Pervukhina,Gyulnara Vladimirovna Basenko,Irina Gennadjevna Ryabtseva,Elena Evgenyevna Sakharova
Narrowly specialized information is addressed to a limited circle of professionals though it provokes interest among people without specialized education. This gives rise to a need for the popularization of scientific information. This process is carried ... see more
Muhammad Firdaus Mohd Sah,Sharifah Raihan Syed Jaafar
Sebagai masyarakat minoriti di Malaysia, masyarakat Bugis cenderung menyerap masuk leksikal daripada bahasa lain khususnya daripada masyarakat tempatan di kawasan mereka akibat daripada proses asimilasi yang berlaku. Justeru, kajian ini dilakukan untuk me... see more
Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin,Wan Athirah Adilah Wan Abdul Halim,Harishon Radzi
Kajian dialek yang dulunya bersifat tradisional dengan mencari perbezaan fonologi, telah berkembang menjadi kajian geografi, sejarawi dan sumber data kajian teoritis. Hari ini kajian dialek telah melalui inovasi dengan mensinergikan teknologi dalam penghu... see more
Sze Seau Lee,Hazita Azman
Technology both complicates and liberates oral presentation pedagogy in higher education. On one hand, 21st century communication realities require students to deliver multimodal oral presentations but educators have only begun to experiment with the rele... see more
Izzammuddin Isnin,Nurjanah Mohd Jaafar
Glosses or short explanations of vocabulary items are commonly found in language learning materials. Research that use offline learning measures to examine effects of glosses on learning found that they are useful in facilitating vocabulary acquisition an... see more
Mohd Fadhli Shah Khaidzir,Ruzy Suliza Hashim,Noraini Md. Yusof
Travellers’ enthusiasm can drive them to explore new locations, especially those that are unknown and foreign to their eyes. Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf's anthology of poetry, The Art of Naming (2006) reflects the people and locations that played a signi... see more
Ammar Abdul-Wahab Al Abdely
Iraqi EFL learners of English are reported to show accented pronunciation on the segmental level, which might affect their speech intelligibility. This study aimed to identify problems encountered by Iraqi EFL learners in the production of English low vow... see more
Jennifier Tabernero Diamante,Glenda Doroja Cadiente,Romualdo Atibagos Mabuan
Ahmed Tanimu Jibril,Afida Mohamad Ali,Zalina Mohamad Kasim,Chan Mei Yuit
The realisation of genuine national unity within its ethnically diverse society has always been the primary challenge facing Nigeria since its Independence in 1960. This study investigated the discursive recontextualisation of national unity through newsp... see more
Yosep Bambang Margono-Slamet
This paper analyzes four selected short stories in Javanese literature entitled “Durmogati” by Budianto, “Maju Tatu Mundur Ajur” (“Damned if One Does, Damned if One Doesn’t”) by Budiono, “Bojo” (“Wife”) and “Apik Meneng” (“It’s Better to be Silent”) by Ha... see more
Ali Dezhkameh,Nasim Layegh,Yaser Hadidi
The policies and ideologies of countries are reflected in the propagated media of that country, and newspapers are no exception. Covid-19 has affected the lives of people all around the world. The present study investigated the ideological differences in ... see more
Dunya AlJazrawi,Zeena AlJazrawi
This study aims at examining the use of metadiscourse markers in literary criticism texts to identify the role of the reader and how these markers are used to produce more persuasive essays. The data of 72,727 words from 17 texts were written by three wel... see more