53 articles in this issue
Elham Zarfsaz,Parisa Yeganehpour
This study was carried on for the purpose of comparing EFL learners’ reading comprehension skill before and after the execution of timing different types of pre-reading activities. It was found that after applying the pre-reading activities the participan... see more
Ala’eddin Abdullah Banikalef
This study aims to examine the speech act of congratulations in Arabic language on the occasion of ‘birthday’ among young Arab Jordanian who use Facebook to share social life with each others. The data collected is 855 birthday congratulation notes ... see more
Djibril Nanourgo Silué,Kiyofon Antoine Kone
Abstract: This paper takes issue with the view of conceptual structures as autonomous syntactic structures generated by syntactic formation rules. Instead, it adopts the position developed by Croft and Cruse (2004), in showing that linguistic knowledge – ... see more
Banu Özdemir
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the objectives in the Turkish Course curriculum in terms of including critical thinking skills. The study was conducted by using the basic qualitative design. The document analysis method was employed to ... see more
Amir H.Y. Salama
The present study offers a novel methodology for corpus-based discourse analysis that combines Kenneth Burke's (1968, 1969) dramatistic method of text analysis and the corpus techniques of keyword extraction and concordance reading. Applying the methodolo... see more
Ahmad Farshbafian,Esmaeil Safaei Asl
Within the framework of the systematic functional grammar (SFG), Matthiessen (2004) has provided an analysis of the word/element order according to which word/element order in a clause is decided by experiential, interpersonal and textual metafunctions. I... see more
Hilma Amalia,Fuad Abdullah,Asri Siti Fatimah
Writing has been considered as a highly demanding skill and a complex recursive process involving multifaceted knowledge (e.g. grammar, genre, vocabulary and metacognitive competencies). Hence, it has been documented in miscellaneous studies in the past f... see more
Ibtisam Hussein,Al-Orefi Jihad,Ayman Yasin
This paper addresses the techniques of treating patients with functional disorders of pronouncing sibilants in Arabic. The sounds under question are /s/, /z/, /?/. The main disorders that are studied here are: substitution and distortion. A descriptive an... see more
Esim Gürsoy,Eda Nur Özcan
The number of ELT PhD theses is growing every year and these are great sources to spot the leading research trends and the research gaps in the field. No previous study has missioned to make an investigation on PhD theses in Turkey to spot such find... see more
Atilla Özdemir,Emine Pehlivan Sisman,Kagan Büyükkarci
This article is a scale development study aimed at developing valid and reliable scales to understand English language teachers’ knowledge about and attitudes towards plurilingualism and interculturalism. It is a descriptive survey model of quantitative r... see more
Ferhat karanfil,Serkan Demir
This case study explores Turkish–English-Arabic multilingual identity sequentially and simultaneously constructed by two refugee siblings raised by their multilingual mother in the family environment where they interact in English and Arabic while they ar... see more
Aamir Aziz,Muhammad Asim Mahmood,Shabbir Ahmad,Nabila Akbar
At present, genre analysis of various types of texts has gained much attention by the researchers worldwide. The focus of genre analysis in this study is on the examination of thesis abstracts written by Pakistani students in the field of TEFL in connecti... see more
Lindita Tahiri,Nuran Muhaxheri
This article applies Linguistic Criticism tools (Fowler, 1981) as methodological framework for interpreting narratological devices in fiction pointing out the relationship between the perspective of the narrator and the character. Fragments from a Kosovan... see more
Ilknur Eginli
To better understand teacher retention, the thrust of the study was to examine the relationships among principal support, teacher efficacy, collective efficacy and practicing teachers’ commitment to the profession. This study was designed to test the medi... see more
Murad Al Kayed
The study aims at investigating the discourse marker hasa ‘now’ in Jordanian Arabic using relevance theory. The study also examined the grammaticalization of hasa and how it developed to be a discourse marker. The study also explored the functions of hasa... see more
Ceren Tasatan Çakmak,Ali Merç
Vocabulary has been accepted as an important aspect of language learning in many studies. In the light of these studies in literature, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the general and academic lexical competence and performance of preparato... see more
Suman Kothakonda
One of the most challenging and interesting notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics is finiteness. In Telugu, it doesn’t contribute towards direct analysis and is a complicated phenomenon. This paper explores how different grammatical theories ... see more
Özkan Kirmizi,Arif Sariçoban
Representing teachers’ personal approaches regarding issues related to knowledge and how knowledge is to be acquired, epistemic cognitions are relevant constructs for instructional practices of teachers. Therefore, the present study was designed to measur... see more
Ismail Hakki Mirici,Seyda Sari
This study aimed to scrutinize whether Turkish EFL instructors have feared selves while teaching English in their clasess, while speaking in front of public, and in their relationships with their students and colleagues. The participants comprised a total... see more
Jullyane Glaicy da Costa Ferreira,José Ferrari Neto
The aim of the present work was to investigate the processing of coreferential relations, focusing on their relationship with the working memory. In a reading process, it is essential that readers continuously perform mental operations that involve the wo... see more
Yana Boiko,Vira Nikonova
The problem of reconstructing the conceptual content of Shakespeare’s tragedies in chronologically distant Ukrainian translations is solved in the article by applying the method of complex poetical and cognitive analysis, which provides for research in tw... see more
Usman Shah Toti,Othman Abahussain Majed
Abstract Reading involves both cognitive and psychological activities of combining both pre-existing cultural and linguistic knowledge. The reader has the ability to view the world in the light of his/her own cultural experie... see more
Wan Ab Aziz bin Wan Daud,Kung Teck Wong,Mohammad Taufiq Abdul Ghani,Saipol Barin Ramli
The integration of multimedia would enable teachers to take maximum advantage of technology to educate non-native students regarding Arabic language proficiency. Multimedia teaching has many benefits compared to the conventional teaching model, where we d... see more
Didem Tuna,Begüm Çelik
In The Light of Day, Eric Ambler creates a dysphoric Istanbul through the opposition of East and West. However, its Turkish translation Gün Isigi by Adnan Semih Yazicioglu tends to create a very different narrative by transforming signs related to Istanbu... see more
Ersin Çilek
Information transfer occurs between societies for various reasons, mostly political and social relations such as migration, war and trade. Instead of giving a name to the innovations learned during this transfer, sometimes the source language’s’ words are... see more
Funda Uzdu Yildiz
This study aims at describing in detail how university students in Turkey use euphemisms in their daily language usage. The description of the euphemisms in the study was made according to the linguistic formations of euphemisms defined by Warren and acce... see more
Abdulaziz Alshahrani
A framing analysis of eight US media with different political bias was done to identify how they positioned themselves regarding the role of China in Covid-19 in the USA. The number of articles in the media varied much with Los Angeles Times leading with ... see more
Isra’ Hassouneh,Aseel Zibin
This study aims to investigate the complaining strategies used by Facebook users on Zain Facebook page (Zain Jordan). It also aims to identify the most and least frequent strategies used by Facebook users and to examine the similarities and differences be... see more
Ayman Farid Khafaga
This paper investigates the perception of using Blackboard Collaborate-based Instruction (BCI) by Saudi EFL majors and teachers during the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. The paper’s main objective is to explore the extent to which modern technologies contri... see more
Christine Jalleh,Omer Hassan Ali Mahfoodh
Previous studies have examined benefits of collaborative writing, but the effectiveness of collaborative planning in academic writing courses has not been adequately addressed. Thus, this study examined Chinese-speaking ESL pre-university students’ percep... see more
Md. Ashrafuzzaman,Iftakhar Ahmed,Dr. Mariam Begum
This study intends to focus on the application of English literature in developing four language skills and language areas like vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of undergraduate English learners in Bangladesh. The study also pays attention to the rol... see more
Aleksandr V. Alekseev,Yuri K. Yazov,Artem M. Sychev,Mikhail G. Bich,Vladimir Yu. Skiba
The study investigates the main hashtags used in the African American protest movement in the United States. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to recognise the tendencies of the protest movement due to the fact that, having originated s... see more
Iryna A. Biletska,Alla F. Paladieva,Inna S. Laukhina,Anna Yu. Kryshko,Ihor Yu. Hurskiy
Intense globalization and consequent expansion of intercultural contacts have led to the foundation for interlinguoculturology, a new sub-field in linguistics. It is focused on the study of English as a language of intercultural communication, which makes... see more
Iryna A. Blynova
The systematic research of speech genres is a very recent development in applied linguistics that results in establishing a new philological direction in communicative and functional linguistics – genology. The article deals with the investigation of the ... see more
Olga V. Chetverikova,Larisa G. Lisitskaya,Natalia P. Selina,Inessa V. Kirichenko,Lyubov V. Chernova
In modern studies of linguistic science concerning the syntax of a complicated sentence, applications are not specifically considered, but only mentioned in connection with the study of separate definitions. For the system description of the syntax struct... see more
Olena V. Hurko
This article deals with the analysis of compiled names in the context of graphic design terminology. The descriptive method was employed for theoretical generalization of the results and for graphic design interpretation; whereas the component analysis en... see more
Halyna Kankash,Tetiana Cherkasova,Svitlana Novoseletska,Natalia Shapran,Liudmyla Bilokonenko
The purpose of the study is to identify the figurative means in the formal diplomatic texts of speeches of chief delegates of the Ukrainian SSR to exert influence at the sessions of the UN General Assembly. Based on the interpretive method of speech analy... see more
Svetlana M. Kolesnikova,Elena M. Markova,Anastasiya V. Chibisova
The semantic distinction of interjections from content words is still the subject of scientific disputes: this class of words has no nominative function, many of them cannot be interpreted outside the context, which makes them speech marks for expressing ... see more
Nina M. Korbozerova
Originating in the Iberian-Roman period, hypotactic polynomials in Spanish are historically of the greatest interest in terms of the possibility of various relationships and connections in them. Their structural schemes, reflecting the transmitted volume ... see more
Tetiana Kovalevska,Anastasiia Kovalevska,Natalya Kutuza,Inna Lakomska
In order to maximize the contemporary media impact on the mass consciousness/subconsciousness, a need arises to determine the general mechanics and components of such suggestive effects. The article is devoted to advertising discourse as one of the most p... see more
Larysa V. Kravets,Halyna M. Siuta,Lyubov V. Struhanets,Yuriy B. Struhanets
Modern metaphor theory considers a metaphor as an important mental operation, and way of knowing, categorising, conceptualising, evaluating and explaining the world. This study aims to clarify the specifics of cognitive (conceptual) metaphor and determine... see more
Alina V. Maslova,Olga A. Goncharova,Svitlana S. Kirsanova,Natalia Ye. Milko
The article deals with the analysis of a strategy that promotes non-English speaking Master students’ ability to read and interpret authentic English-language academic research articles. The authors have got a hypothesis that the effectiveness of teaching... see more
Svitlana M. Mazur
The study is devoted to the problem of adequate choice and use of linguistic means for translating into English the key philosophical, ethical and conceptual foundations of the Tenri religion (Japanese: Tenri-kyo / ??? /), one of the most ancient religion... see more
Roksolana V. Povoroznyuk
This study presents intercultural generic repossession occurring in the translation of medical TV dramas through the popularization of medical knowledge, and resulting in a creation of specific transgenres via pathways of autological accretion and allogen... see more
Nadezhda Romanenko,Mengxin Qian,Pan Weiqiao
One of the problems that specialists and companies face when implementing the Belt and Road Initiative in the Russian Federation is the lack of language skills in communication with Russian specialists. This primarily applies to student youth, who will ha... see more
Olena H. Smolnikova,Svitlana M. Ivanenko,Liudmyla O. Kukhar,Vita V. Nikolayenko,Sergii F. Panov,Olena O. Yaremenko-Gasiuk
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) provides the possibility to create means for autonomous second language learning (ASLL), facilitates to formation and development of skills and abilities in second language learning (SLL). In suc... see more
Elena I. Tsymbalyuk,Nadezhda M. Romanenko,Anastasyia V. Romanenko,Marina A. Volkova
The most important task of modern education is the development of students' skills to successfully interact with representatives of other cultures, to effectively respond to requests, challenges and opportunities arising in intercultural situations. This ... see more
Afag Gambarova
The article presents an analysis of the formation of cognitive science in the mainstream of classical linguistics for over three centuries. A step-by-step study shows that the process of the emergence of cognitive linguistics, its basic concepts, originat... see more
Olha L. Kyryliuk
This paper views the peculiarities of the use of language units as a means of waging the information aggression of Russia against Ukraine. It has been established that the use of some and, conversely, the displacement of other nouns from the social discou... see more
Olena Panchenko,Kateryna Shevchyk,Irina Suima,Iryna Muliar,Olha Novikova
The article deals with the problem of translating linguistically and culturally marked (LCM) lexical units. The study aims to analyze the usage of such translational strategies as domestication and foreignization or their combination. The research presupp... see more
Anastassia D. Petrova
The influence of Dostoevsky on European and, in particular, French culture has a long history. The plot, Camus and Dostoevsky, attracted the attention of researchers, although there are not so many separate works devoted to this topic. The novelty of this... see more
Oleksandr Polishchuk,Olena Polishchuk,Liudmyla Pavlishena,Svitlana Piroshenko,Galyna Buchkivska
Today there is a tendency to integrate cultures. By entering into dialogue, national cultures discover new facets. Reading a foreign artwork can be compared to the process of intercultural communication, as an author and a reader are representatives of di... see more
Nurjan K. Sartbekova,Gulzhamal U. Ryskulova,Gulbarchyn A. Orozbaeva
A change in the psychological state of a person as a reaction to the dynamic changes in external circumstances reflects all the subjective difficulties. When a difficult situation arises, a person begins to broadcast their thought describing the difficult... see more