32 articles in this issue
Ahmed Al Khateeb
This study examines the involvement of blogging as a novel practice within a graduation project course for undergraduate students. The course involves writing a sound research proposal followed by accomplishing research in one of three main areas of study... see more
Iftikhar Yousaf,Muhammad Nubli Bin Abdul Wahab,Nor Ashikin Binti Abdul Aziz,Muhammad Iqbal
Positive associations have been found between reading and emotions. Various techniques, including traditional as well as modern, have been used to measure emotions in the previous studies. However, emotional measurement of the readers of a literary piece ... see more
Fatin Najwa Amelia binti Marsani,Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh,Paramaswari Jaganathan,Ahmad Sofwan Nathan Abdullah,Premalatha Karupiah
Malaysia is typified by three major ethnic groups namely Malay, Chinese and Indian. The evolution of national unity in Malaysia, which is based on acceptance and tolerance towards different cultures has been allowed to flourish in tandem with the re... see more
Nusaiba Adel Almahameed
This paper sheds light on the point of intersection and the moment of cross-fertilization between prose and poetry in Virginia Woolf’s experimental sketch, – “Blue & Green”. It provides an in-depth analysis of Woolf’s poetic technique in her short story i... see more
Abbas Moradan,Maryam Vafaei
Reading passages contain many new words. Looking up every word in the dictionary and finding the exact meaning can be a difficult job for learners and may hinder the process of reading. Providing glosses can help learners deal with this issue. The objecti... see more
Hanan Ismail Kutubkhanah Alsaied
The popularity of learning management systems (LMSs) in ELT has been enhanced due to extensive availability of technological infrastructure for educational institutions. Previous studies reveal the fact that adoption of new technologies is always supporte... see more
Ray Leung
Capitalizing on the lack of gambling-related research among discourse analysts and the recent liberalization of C-A-S-I-N-O operations in Singapore, the present article reports on the discursive representation of gamblers in Singapore newspaper texts by m... see more
Chowdhury Mohammad Ali,Rebeka Sultana
Validity is considered to be of paramount importance in language testing, and therefore, remains the central concept to all designs and research activities in the field of testing and assessment. Arguably, all researches in language testing are in some se... see more
Abdulfattah Omar
This article is concerned with analysing the concepts of determinism and gender in John Galsworthy’s The Man of Property and Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace Walk from a naturalistic point of view. Determinism is one of the important characteristics of literary na... see more
Samaneh Tarighat
The present study is intended to determine how extensive exposure to target language mass media can affect foreign language learning and the poverty of the stimulus problem in the foreign language context. For this purpose, an EFL learner was studied for ... see more
Song Chen
The paper examines the linguistic landscape in an indoor public place, Robot Open Space in Zhongguancun Dream Laboratory, which is a building housing a handful of innovative entrepreneurial enterprises. The subject of analysis in this present paper is the... see more
Magda Madkour
This case study research was based on a generic exploration of the translation problems that graduate students face in literary translation. Literary translation is fundamental to translation programs at higher education due to the upsurge that has occurr... see more
Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh,Abdullah Jaradat,Husam Al-momani,Baker Bani-Khair
Learning idioms which is considered a very essential part of learning and using language (Sridhar and Karunakaran, 2013) has recently attracted a great attention of English learning researchers particularly the assessment of how well Asian language learne... see more
Elham Abedi,Farinaz Shirani Bidabadi,Hadi Salehi
This research aimed to investigate kinds of offences that motivate the characters in the movie "Revolutionary Road" to deliver their apology and to describe the way the characters express their apologies. The study used Trosborg's apology strategies and H... see more
Rauan Dossymbekova,Tolkyn Kalibekuly,Farida Orazakynkyzy,Dina Andabayeva,Nurkassym Ashimbay
This paper is devoted to the comparative-semantic analysis of numerological phraseological units (PU) in the unrelated languages, namely, Kazakh and English. The identification of the similarities and differences of fixed collocations of multiple language... see more
Zanirah Wahab,Radzuwan Ab Rashid
Globalisation has brought numerous changes in all aspects of life especially in the economic sector. For the past few decades, the importance of economic growth and achievement has become the “obsession” of people around the world. Malaysia is no exceptio... see more
Olga Vladimirovna Baykova,Olga Nikolayevna Obukhova,Yilia Valeryevna Berezina,Vladimir Alexandrovich Banin,Andrey Viktorovich Kazakov
Currently, the process of globalization, intense intercultural contacts, changes in social structure, and internationalization of higher education influence inter-ethnic relations, ethnic identity, as well as language changes. These processes can be obser... see more
Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh,Baker Bani-Khair,Bassil Mashaqba,Anas Huneety
This study is the first to analyse WhatsApp’s semantic notifications particularly those of Jordanians. It also seeks to analyse the differences in these notifications’ language use by gender and endeavors to reveal some latent socio-cultural values affect... see more
Fatemeh Mirzapour
Differences in the way that males and females use language have been of interest in the study of discourse. This study is an attempt to examine whether men and women differ with respect to the use of hedges and first person pronouns in research articles o... see more
Svetlana Mitrofanovna Prokopieva,Vladimir Dmitrijevic Monastyrev
The analysis of language semantics of the polysemantic verbs kel and kommen of the modern Yakut and German languages brings us to the domain of concepts. Interest in typological studies of languages, in particular, in comparative studies of concept struct... see more
Radzuwan Ab Rashid,Kamariah Yunus,Zanirah Wahab
This paper aims to shed light on the functional organisation of language in the reports published in Malaysian newspapers. Adopting Halliday’s (1970; 1990; 1994) systemic functional grammar as its analytical lens, two text extracts, one from New Strait Ti... see more
Mohd Asyraf Zulkffli,Radzuwan Ab Rashid
This paper aims to provide insights into the delivery of Islamic sermons in regards to homosexuality. The spoken discourse which constitutes data for this study were generated from the sermons delivered by two Malaysian preachers. These sermons were retri... see more
Kamariah Yunus,Su’ad Awab,Radzuwan Ab Rashid
Specialised discourses manifest the organising thoughts of the discourse community that speaks the language. They are formed by a series of interrelated linguistic properties that are joined in sentences by small but very important lexico-grammatica... see more
Kamariah Yunus,Wahidah Wahid,SNM Syed Omar,Radzuwan Ab Rashid
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in English Language Learning and Teaching (ELLT) has become prevalent in this recent decade. This study aims to investigate the level of computer technophobia among 106 adult undergraduates i... see more
Adlina Ismail,Normah Yusof,Kamariah Yunus
These days, there are more English books for children published by local publishers in Malaysia. It is a positive development because the books will be more accessible to the children. However, the books have never been studied and evaluated in depth yet.... see more
Nor Hafizah Abdullah,Nor Azlili Hassan,Iza Sharina Sallehuddin,Faradillah Iqmar Omar
The purpose of this study is to examine the usage of social media among foundation students and to show how the usage of social media in a campus environment can produce outcomes for the students. Two variables were used; usage and outcomes. Relationships... see more
Safawati Basirah Zaid,Mohamad Hassan Zakaria,Radzuwan Ab Rashid,Nur Salina Ismail
Negotiation is an integral part of our daily lives. It occurs everywhere and requires skillful interactions. The purpose of this study is to examine the negotiation process among ESL learners and identify any problem that may arise in the process. The par... see more
Azmi N.J.,Radzuwan Ab Rashid,Mairas Abd. Rahman,Safawati Basirah, Z.
One of the latest Disney princess movies is Frozen which was released in 2013. Female characters in Frozen differ from the female characters in previous Disney movies, such as The Little Mermaid and Tangled. In comparison, female characters in Frozen are ... see more
Sharipah Nur Mursalina Syed Azmy,Nor Hafizah Abdullah,Suffian hadi Ayub
The Malaysia Education Development Plan (2013 – 2025) (pre-school to post-secondary education) was launched by the Ministry of Education on October 2011. This plan aimed at transforming the national education system holistically and was based upon the int... see more
Siti Zanariah Yusoff,Nazilah Mohamad,Mohd Faradi Ghazali,Nor Hafizah Abdullah,Sharipah Nur Mursalina Syed Azmy
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of social media as an information seeking tool of halal food products among Muslim. This is a conceptual paper which employed a comprehensive review to investigate strategy used by Muslim family in informat... see more
Mairas Abd Rahman,Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi,Zanirah binti Wahab,Ahmad Taufik Hidayah bin Abdullah,Nor Jijidiana binti Azmi
Teaching can be challenging task especially when the students are categorized as reluctant readers, low self-motivated and lack of critical thinking skills. Therefore, this study focuses on a successful problem-based learning approach on university course... see more
Hishamuddin Salim,Nadia Nabila Saad
The protagonists play important roles in any novel. In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, they were presented in the most vivid of ways so as to make the characters alive and memorable. One of the strategies used by the author to make the protagoni... see more