45 articles in this issue
Aydan Irgatoglu
This study identifies the usage of language learning strategies and stereotypical thoughts on foreign languages regarding gender and language marks. It is designed in both correlation model and descriptive comparative model. The resear... see more
Audi Yundayani,Fuad Abdullah,Soni Tantan Tandiana,Bejo Sutrisno
The Covid-19 pandemic has influenced various dimensions of higher education systems globally, including English language learning. To illustrate, the pedagogical practices should be altered from face-to-face to online modes. This move affects students' le... see more
Worakrit Nontasee,Apisak Sukying
This study investigated the learnability of multiple word knowledge aspects and the relationship between the word knowledge aspects. A total of 261 Thai high school students were measured on receptive and productive word knowledge aspects: word parts, the... see more
Seth Amoah,Joyce Yeboah
Speaking is one of the most essential qualities to develop when learning a foreign language. However, it is viewed as the most difficult. This study involved the observation of non-English major students in the foreign language department of Nanjing Tech ... see more
Abu Rashed Md Mahbuber Rahman,Ilyana Jalaluddin,Zalina Mohd Kasim,Ramiza Darmi
The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors and level of motivation for learning English among Aliya madrasah students in Bangladesh. The study also explored to find out the differences in students’ motivation for learning English as L2 based ... see more
Muhammad Rafiek
This research is aimed at explaining the equation of the Malay vocabulary in the animated film of Upin and Ipin with Banjarese vocabulary in South Kalimantan. In this research, the researcher used a qualitative method with comparative linguistic research ... see more
Heekyung Choi
This study examines how English has penetrated the Korean language by analyzing Anglicisms in weekly news magazine articles, with special reference to translation as a mode of language contact. For this purpose, it conducts a diachronic quantitative analy... see more
Bahtiyar Makaroglu
From the point of word formation, the phenomenon of lexical blending is a common productive process, entailing the notion of combination of lexemes in so many languages. In the vast majority of literature on blends, they preserve a linear formation of seg... see more
Muhammad Azizul Hoque,Md Maksud Ali,Fariza Puteh-Behak,Hazleena Baharun
Although lexical borrowing from the English language into Bangla has been reported in the literature, not many studies have investigated the nature and the extent to which this borrowing has taken place in relation to Bangla short stories. This study exam... see more
Suna Kunghair,Chaleomkiet Yenphech
The aims of this study were 1) To identify the general description of the frequency of use of DMs (adding something) in the Thesis’ Abstracts of Ph.D. writing, and 2) To investigate the relationship between the numbers of DMs (add... see more
Desti Nur Aini,Kisyani Laksono,Agus Ridwan
To comprehend a text, one needs to understand the relationship of various elements in it. The skill that helps connect the non-textual components to the textual ones is making inferences. This research aims to reveal different types of inferences made by ... see more
Natasha Poroçani,Albana Deda
In this paper we have reviewed and analyzed literature textbooks at the pre-university level, respectively in the high school. In this research we have examined the way these texts are analyzed (the pedagogical apparatus as it is otherwise called). Such w... see more
Gürkan Dagbasi
Since 2010, other Arabic Language Education Departments have been founded to train Arabic language teachers at both state and foundation universities. As of 2020-2021, a total of eight universities are actively training Arabic language teachers. Although ... see more
Sahril Nur,Safnil Arsyad,Muhammad Zaim,Syahrul Ramadhan
The use of appropriate rhetorical moves (RMs) and meta-discourse markers (MMs) improve the argumentative and persuasive force of academic texts, such as essays, thesis, seminar papers, and articles. However, authors from a different language background an... see more
Selina Alonya Kulo,Paul Odundo,Agnes Kibui
Reading has always been a challenging task especially for struggling learners of English as a second language (ESL). Readers' theatre has been used as a class instruction approach to enable learners to become innovative and active participants in the read... see more
Rrahman Paçarizi
Gender issues in Languages are very sensitive and interesting, especially in the societies making effort to empower the presence and the role of women in respective society. Kosovar society is one of the examples of such efforts and debates initiated by w... see more
Güliz Turgut Dost
This qualitative single-case study examined the impact of a course informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) on teacher candidates’ knowledge about genre and language. The study was conducted with nineteen teacher candidates and lasted one semeste... see more
Idriz Metani,Sidita (Hoxhiq) Dano
Lexical meaning, as an important and essential aspect of the word, has long attracted the attention of scholars, who, in trying to know its nature, have sometimes mystified it by seeing it as an inexplicable thing and sometimes simplified it, equating it ... see more
Khusnul Khotimah,Kisyani Laksono,Suhartono Suhartono,Udjang Pairin,Darni Darni
Language may represent everything related to COVID-19 and, at the same time, being a tool to recognize and prevent the virus. This current research applied the ecolinguistic theory and a qualitative descriptive approach, aiming at researching new terms or... see more
Sevil Hasirci Aksoy
Reading skill is important to improve children’s higher order thinking skills. But PISA reading results show that children in Turkey are not sufficient for this skill. That’s why, this study aimed to investigate the cognitive levels of reading outcomes in... see more
Majid Abdulatif Al-Basri
This paper has been written to fall within the orbit of the moraic framework of the syllable, particularly the syllable weight, of Basrah Arabic. Universal as its nature is, mora, when studied and then applied, has, metaphorically speaking, the power of c... see more
Garbiñe Bereziartua,Beñat Muguruza
Many languages make a T/V distinction when addressing an interlocutor, and Basque also has two main levels of formality: zuka (formal) and hika (informal). The peculiarity of the Basque informal form of address hika is that its verbal morphology varies de... see more
Nur Sürüç Sen
When it comes to paying attention to the suprasegmental features of their speech, most learners of English seem to be unaware that such phenomena as stress, pitch, duration, and pausing can be of great importance regarding the mutual intelligibility. Sinc... see more
Naeem Afzal,Ismat Jabeen,Ansa Hameed,Adnan Sheikh
Persuasion in media discourses produces certain meanings and mobilizes public attitudes in a set direction. Logical appeals, for instance, are created to gather public support for a particular viewpoint, which propagates a specific cause. This paper criti... see more
Bahri Gani Koskoviku,Mensur Nebih Vokrri
The subject at hand of this paper is intransitive prepositions, which E. Klima (1965) defined as prepositions that do not select syntactic objects. This word group comprises those linguistic units which traditional grammar used to consider as bicategorica... see more
Dilshodbek Rustamov,Shokhida Shakhabitdinova,Sobirjon Solijonovc,Abdulaziz Mattiyev,Shakhobiddin Begaliyev,Shakhram Fayziev
Gender differences are manifested not only in the physiological characteristics of a person, but also in the speech communication. This article presents the research data obtained at the phonetic and lexical levels of the language. The purpose of this wor... see more
Mohammed Ilyas,Naeem Afzal
Diasporic literature surfaced in the post-colonial era and contributed much to the literary and educational ethos with genres and sub-genres like expatriate writings, immigrant writings, multiculturalism, hybrid writings, and others. This study analyses J... see more
Dildora Khashimova,Nasiba Niyazova,Umida Nasirova,Dildora Israilova,Nodir Khikmatov,Shakhram Fayziev
In this scientific article we take a look about education and that, one of the important components in the education of future specialists is language training. So, the main goal of teaching languages at a university is the formation and improvement of sk... see more
Mohammad Awad AlAfnan
Diglossia is a language situation that does not always take place between two dialects of the same language; speaking two different languages in two different encounters is also considered diglossia. This study examines the use of language among Arabic-sp... see more
Nor Hanani Binti Ismail,Madya Dr. Mardzelah Binti Makhsin,Madya Dr. Mohamad Khadafi Bin Hj. Rofie,Salmah Omar
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) is the ability to apply knowledge, skills and values in reasoning and reflection. Islam associates knowledge with the process of thinking. Terms such as tafakkur and ta‘aqul (thinking) are used to describe the thought p... see more
Amira Abdullah Alshehri
This study investigates two models of L2 vocabulary acquisition at an advanced L2 level. Proponents of the L1 lemma mediation model postulate that advanced L2 learners map L2 words to L1 meaning, whereas proponents of the revised hierarchical model argue ... see more
Mehvish Riaz
A list of 350 words that deviate in pronunciation from the standard English pronunciation of these words has been suggested in the present study. Wordlist based on an observation made over a period of ten years has been suggested along with the transcript... see more
Irina Panferova,Yuliya Kim
Based on the study of the structural and semantic links between economic terms as a system-structural formation in reflection with the maximum objectivity of the level of human knowledge in the field of economics this article considers the structural-sema... see more
Abdulfattah Omar,Sarah Saleem Alluqmani
Although there is a wealth of literature on improving the reading skills of EFL learners at Saudi universities, very little work has been done on struggling readers in lifelong and continuous learning programs. To address the issue, this study seeks to ex... see more
Juritah Misman,Muhammad Taufik Md Sharipp,S. Salahudin Suyurno,Nik Narimah Nik Abdullah,Chairozila Mohd. Shamsudin
With the current situation of Covid19 outbreaks and the execution of lockdowns and social restrictions and distancing, people are turning to the use of smart technologies to communicate and perform daily activities. In fact, current education scenario dur... see more
Abdulfattah Omar
Numerous studies have addressed the issue of the authorship of Morsi Gameel Aziz’s lyrics. These studies have traditionally been based on chronological criteria for determining the real authors of disputed lyrics. To date, there is no agreement on the rea... see more
Bakhtiyor Mengliev,Shohida Shahabitdinova,Shahlo Khamroeva,Shakhnoza Gulyamova,Adiba Botirova
This article is dedicated to the issue of morphological analysis and synthesis of word forms in a linguistic analyzer, which is a significant feature of corpus linguistics. The article discourses in detail the morphological analysis, the creation of artif... see more
Mohammad Rukanuddin,Kh Atikur Rahman,Prodhan Mahbub Ibna Seraj,Kazi Dawood Hafiz
Ensuring the practice of providing feedback to learners’ work in different strata of education is a challenging one. The number of researches in this issue identifying the factors that hinder feedback culture in education is still not adequate. Hence, the... see more
Hamood Mohammed Alrumhi
This study seeks to uncover the theoretical bases for the production of the classical Arabic phonetic terms and their elements in the means of generating terms for both lexical semantics and conceptual semantics. The research problem is concerned with exa... see more
Mohd Sham Kamis,Muhammad Nazir Alias,Maimun Aqsha Lubis,Damien Mikeng,Syahrul Ghani Zainal Abidin,Md.Jais Ismail,Rorlinda Yusof
This study is related to learning styles and technology; for example, the use of telegram in the laptop among Malaysian Gifted Learners (MGL) at Pusat GENIUS@Pintar Negara, UKM. This study aims to investigate the three research questions. The first resear... see more
Cem Gürbüz,Nese Cabaroglu
In this study, we investigated preparatory class students’ perceptions of oral presentations and their functions in EFL learning and teaching in connection with language ability, speech anxiety and language learning motivation. Our participants were 29 ad... see more
Fatih Can,Nursat Biçer
This study aims at determining the relationship between preservice teachers’ reading habits and critical reading skills as well as assessing whether preservice teachers’ reading habits and critical reading skills vary with their gender, age, education yea... see more
Fatma Gülengül Birinci,Arif Sariçoban
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of using visual materials in teaching vocabulary to deaf students of EFL. For this purpose, 80 deaf students from a state special education vocational high school in Turkey took part in the study. ... see more
Nataliia Kravchenko,Olena Zhykharieva,Yuliia Kononets
Raed Al-Ramahi,Radzuwan Ab Rashid,Omar Al-Smadi,Hanita Ismail
This article seeks to identify the main discursive strategies employed by Langston Hughes in constructing entities, people’s images and entire social reality in his poetic discourse. More specifically, this article examines how the discursive strategies c... see more