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Volume 8 Number 6 Year 2019

15 articles in this issue 

Sènakpon Adelphe Fortuné Azon

In a disjointed narrative drunkenness that straddles oneiric language, apocalyptic vaticinations, and alcoholic delirium, the narrative of the young itinerant preacher in John Edgar Wideman’s Cattle Killing unfurls. The narrative purports to be clear in l... see more

Pags. 1 - 8  

- Nuzwaty,Muhammad Ali Pawiro,Liesna Andriany,- Risnawaty

This study is a case study that covers the presentation formats for language choice on the speech community of Acehnese based upon family domains in bilingual Indonesian speech behavior. The sources of variance are between Aceh and Indonesian languages in... see more

Pags. 9 - 15  

Siddig Ahmed Ali Mohammed

This study is concerned with translating humorous expressions from English into the Arabic Language with reference to Loss, Gain, and Compensation. The idea of the research developed from an observation by the researcher that when the target audience watc... see more

Pags. 16 - 22  

Abd Ali Nayif Hasan

A consonant cluster (henceforth CC) is a combination of two or more consonants without a vowel between them. There can be initial, medial and final CCs. Additionally, there are initial CCs with medial or final ones, and medial CCs with final ones. To the ... see more

Pags. 23 - 33  

Sajjad Mahboobi

The primary focus of this article is concept of Jewish heroism in Bernard Malamud’s most celebrated novel, The Fixer (1966). In light of a truth-oriented historicist approach, my underlying argument is that Malamud’s protagonists are Jewish heroes who bef... see more

Pags. 34 - 42  

Paul Thompson,Sarah Nasser Alzeer

Word lists have been recognized as a valuable pedagogical resource that can be used by language teachers and learners, materials developers and syllabus designers to identify vocabulary that needs attention. The increase in the accessibility of electronic... see more

Pags. 43 - 53  

Gaston Bacquet

Inspired by years of research into the areas of motivation and learner autonomy, this empirical study aimed at investigating ways of developing both of these dimensions in a Myanmar classroom; most current research output show results of what has been don... see more

Pags. 54 - 66  

Upul Priyantha Gamage,Patrick Sadi Makangila

‘Humour’ in the stories has been investigated in many ways while the prominence of the studies has been captured by the pragmatic analyses. The emergence of humour through language is an interesting conversational implicature that has attracted the academ... see more

Pags. 67 - 75  

Ainul Azmin Md Zamin,Mahmoud Elfeky,Rafidah Kamarudin,Faizah Abd Majid

Phrasal verbs (PVs) are one of the most notoriously puzzling aspects of English language instruction. Despite their difficulty and idiosyncrasies, they are of high relevance for ESL/EFL learners because mastery of PVs is often equated with language profic... see more

Pags. 76 - 85  

Greg Omeje,Chibuzo Onunkwo

A literary work fascinates scholars and critics in different ways which may be based on literary experience or interest. In whichever perspective, literature engages the mind with multiplicity of interpretations. Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and Ak... see more

Pags. 86 - 91  

Kesavan Vadakalur Elumalai,Niladri Sekhar Das,Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani,Anas Maktabi

Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is an indispensable method of text processing. The main aim is to assign part-of-speech to words after considering their actual contextual syntactic-cum-semantic roles in a piece of text where they occur (Siemund & Claridge 19... see more

Pags. 92 - 102  

Ibrahim Abdalla Ahmed Abker

This study attempts to investigate into the problems of correct words stress placement in English. Words that can be both nouns and verbs in a group of Saudi university students, in Almandag, at Albaha University. The researcher used the Descriptive Stati... see more

Pags. 103 - 113  

Huashan Wu

Student reticence in the English classroom is a pervasive phenomenon in the EFL context, yet limited empirical research on reticence among Chinese university students can be found in the previous literature. This study investigated the students’ perceptio... see more

Pags. 114 - 125  

Shatha Alkhalaf

No one can deny the role that short stories have played in the life of humans since time immemorial. They do not only keep family members close, but also strengthen the bond of those who share the same interest and happen to exchange them with each other.... see more

Pags. 126 - 131  

Khaled Abkar Alkodimi

Majority of world opinion today is critical of Israel’s role in the current standoff with Palestine fueled by the illegitimate occupation of the West Bank, depriving millions of Palestinians of their homeland. Yet, almost all non-Islamic countries maintai... see more

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