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International Journal of Linguistics
Articles from Vol. 4, No. 2, June
A Comparative Analysis of Interactive Metadiscourse Features in Discussion Section of Research Articles Written in English and Persian
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1. Introduction For several centuries, written language has been seen as being fundamental. This is due to the significance of writing in all aspects of our lives, its roles in social professional and academic contexts, and its decisive role in...
A Comparative Study of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Business and Political Texts
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1. Introduction Grammatical metaphor as defined by Halliday (1985) for the first time (and refined and burnished in his successive works of 1994 and 2004; along with the valuable and constructive works of his colleagues) is a substitution of one...
A Model for the Evaluation of Translations: With an Emphasis on the Stylistic Features
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1. Introduction According to Enkvist (1973:11), the style is "as common as it is elusive. Most of us speak about it even lovingly, though few of us are willing to say precisely what it means." Many attempts have been made to define it, ranging from...
Anaphoric Expressions of EFL Speakers in Cameroon
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1. Introduction The linguistic map of Cameroon, in terms of her official languages, has been largely influenced by its political history. The division of the country into two dominant linguistic zones (French & English) is a consequence of this...
An Event Semantic Structure Analysis of Shona Causative Constructions
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1. Introduction This paper accounts for the semantics of causative constructions in Shona. Shona is a Bantu language coded Zone S.10 in Guthrie's (1948, 1967-71) classification, native to the Shona people of Zimbabwe, southern Zambia and parts of...
An Investigation of Evidentiality in the Arabic Language
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1. Introduction All languages have certain linguistic tools in order to specify the sources of information obtained, which is mentioned in utterances, sentences, interactions or even texts, whether these texts are spoken or written. In fact, these...
An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Broken Plurals in Muscat Arabic
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1. Introduction Like other dialects of Arabic, Muscat Arabic (henceforth, MA) expresses 'plural' meaning more often by imposing an internal change on the singular form rather than attaching a fixed plural affix. This phenomenon is known as the broken...
Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Bahasa Indonesia Clauses
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1. Introduction Systemic Functional Linguistics or SFL concerns language as a system of meaning. This argumentation is in line with Halliday in Bloor and Bloor (2004, p. 2). "For SFL, a language is 'a system of meanings'. That is to say that when...
Attribution Theory and Personality Traits among EFL Learners
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1. Introduction Motivation in language learning is defined as "the combination of effort plus desire to achieve the goal of learning the language plus favorable attitudes toward learning the language" (Gardner, 1985, p. 10). Related to this notion,...
Critical Literacy in ELT in Pakistan: Contradictory or Complementary
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1. Introduction Education is a multilayered term. Education involves all the activities aimed at the well being of the individuals. Education brings literacy and literacy is the power to discriminate things with the power of decoding symbols and...
Development of Phonological Awareness and Letter Knowledge in Bosnian Preschool Children
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1. Introduction Phonological awareness is the awareness of basic units of sound and is measured in terms of the ability to compare and manipulate the units of speech within words and syllables (Shah, 2002). It is the ability to carry out mental...
Different Textual Enhancement Formats and the Intake of English Past Simple Tense
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1. Introduction SLA has been challenged for decades by the controversy over either direct or indirect instruction of language forms. As Ellis, (1997) argued, the question has not been whether to teach grammar or not but how to teach it from among...
Does It Pay off? the Effect of Social and Cultural Capital on Learners' Language Learning Strategies
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1. Introduction Last few decades, beginning from 70s, have witnessed a gradual and significant shift in education, resulting in less emphasis on teacher and teaching and more stress on learner and learning. The former teacher centered approaches...
Examining the Relationship between Translation Students' Locus of Control and Their Translation Achievement
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1. Introduction Dornyei argues that Individual Differences are the peculiarities which vary from one individual to another (2005). Locus of Control which was presented by Rotter in 1966 is a psychological factor that causes differences in the performance...
Face-Threatening Speech Acts and Face-Invading Speech Acts: An Interpretation of Politeness Phenomena
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1. Face-Threatening Acts, Face-Invading Acts, Unintentional Meanings In their foundational works on politeness, P. Brown and S. Levinson (1978, 1987) assume that all competent adults belonging to a society are rational agents who have a positive...
Guessing Word Meaning from Context Has Its Limit: Why?
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1. Introduction One important objective of studies into language learning strategies is often to determine effective ways of learning a new language (O'Malley & Chamot, 1990). The field of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) is no exception...
Hausa-English Code-Switching in Kanywood Films
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1. Introduction Kanywood is the name of the Hausa film industry based in Kano in northern Nigeria. Due to the cosmopolitan nature of Kano and the fact that most of the production is placed there, in 1999 a journalist working with a Hausa newspaper...
Investigating the Effect of Farsi Font Type and Font Size on the Speed of Text Reading by Gaidence School Students
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1. Introduction Nowadays the topics of improving language teaching, enriching reading skills and special attention to reading comprehension are followed seriously in world educational systems from the beginning of the educational year. The aspect...
Investigating the Effect of Farsi Font Type and Letter Space on the Rate of Morpheme Recognition by Gaidence School Students
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1. Introduction One of the problems of students educational improvement is the problem of reading. Nowadays the topics of improving language teaching, enriching reading skills and special attention to reading comprehension are followed seriously...
L1 Transfer in Recognition and Production of A/telic Sentences
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1. Introduction A major task for the first language (L1) acquirer is to arrive at a linguistic system which accounts for the input, allowing the child to build linguistic representations and to understand and produce a certain language (White, 2003)....
Measuring Pragmatic Language in Children with Developmental Dysphasia: Comparing Results of Arabic Versions of TOPL-2 and CELF-4 (PP and ORS Subtests)
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1. Introduction Of all child development milestones, language development is the most amazing. A child begins to cry, coo, gurgle, and babble in two stages--marginal and canonical--then begins to use words in the form of idiomorphs and forms utterances...
Quichua of Imbabura: A Brief Phonetic Sketch of Fricatives
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1. Background 1.1 The Language of the Incas By 1537, the Inca Empire covered the areas currently occupied by Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, central and north of Chile, and northeast of Argentina. This region was called Tahuantinsuyo and was divided...
Reexamining the Role of Implicit and Explicit Focus on Form: Iranian EFL Context
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1. Introduction The history of L2 teaching and learning has alternated between two single-minded approaches. Those that focused on analyzing the language, i.e., language usage (focus on formS) and those that focused on using the language, i.e.,...
Role of Motivation and Attitude in Introduction and Learning of English as a Foreign Language in Libyan High Schools
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1. Introduction English language has grown to be among the most spoken languages in the world. According to Bernaus (2005), many countries in the world which have their own languages have adopted English as their second language. Most of the government...
Strength Asymmetry and Positional Licensing: An Optimality Theoretic Account of Assamese Regressive Voicing Assimilation
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1. Strength Relations, Positional Oddities and Assimilation Strength is treated in literature either as a form of perceptual salience or intrinsic property embedded in a particular segment, as evident in the works of Steriades' (1997) 'Licensing...
Structural Shifts in Translation of Children's Literature
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1. Introduction As far as history has reported children's literature was conspicuously didactic and educational before the 19th century.(Carpenter & Prichard, 1984; Sarland, 2004) It conveyed religious doctrines with an attempt to incorporate...
Teaching Reading Strategies to Students Who Study Foreign Languages
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1. Introduction This article describes a program that can be used for EFL classes to teach reading strategies. The objectives of the program are that the students should be able to understand the text structure of a particular genre, find the main...
Testing the Usability of an Arabic Version of TOPL-2 in Measuring Pragmatic Language Impairment in Children and Adolescents with Developmental Dysphasia
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1. Introduction The development of abnormal language skills in children is an uncontrollable phenomenon, but it can be reduced and clinically treated if addressed from the outset of its identification. A basic need for achieving this goal is an...
The Effect of Consciousness-Raising Tasks on Iranian Elementary EFL Learners' Syntax Acquisition
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1. Introduction Along the history of second language teaching, the role of grammar has been an issue of controversy. According to Richards (2002, cited in Mukminatien, 2008), it has even been the most controversial. Thornburry (1999) asserts that...
The Effect of Metacognitive Strategy Instruction on the Listening Performance of EFL Students
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1. Introduction Long ago, listening comprehension used to be considered as a passive activity and did not merit researchers' attention (Jung, 2003; Thompson & Rubin, 1996; Vandergrift, 2004). It had been assumed that a learner's ability to comprehend...
The Impact of HIV/AIDS Message in Selected Kenyan Primary School Texts: A Linguistic Perspective
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1. Introduction According to NASCOP (2001), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become an extremely serious problem in many countries around the world. It is causing a myriad devastating health, social, economic and development problems...
The Impact of Instructing Self-Questioning in Reading Literary Texts
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1. Introduction Despite the emergence of a 'critical thinking' approach, literature classes usually have been shown to be deprived of the advantages of the principles of this approach. Recent studies [such as Jaffar, 2004 and Hwang and Embi, 2007]...
The Impact of Narrative Storyline Complexity on EFL Learners' Oral Performance
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1. Introduction In recent years, a number of researchers, syllabus designers, and educational innovators have called for a move in language teaching towards task-based approaches (Prabhu, 1987; Nunan, 1989; Long and Crooks, 1992; Crooks and Gass,...
Utilization of Hedging Devices by American and Iranian Researchers in the Field of Civil Engineering
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1. Introduction One of the issues which gained great interest in academic writing for analysis is cultural identity since "cultural differences undoubtedly dictate variations in writers' organization of texts. Such differences can be observed in...
Vocabulary Discovery Strategy Used by Saudi EFL Students in an Intensive English Language Learning Context
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1. Introduction For many years, methodologists, linguists, and language teachers have considered vocabulary incidental to the main purpose of language teaching; namely, the acquisition of grammatical knowledge. However, they have since realised...
Vowel Deletion in Arabic Dialects of Yemen (ADY): A Linguistic Perspective
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1. Introduction In the last few decades there has been a growing interest among linguists in studying Arabic dialects. In fact, the intricacies in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) make the study of it as well as the dialects derived from it more difficult,...
Weblog-Based Collaborative Learning: Iranian EFL Learners' Writing Skill and Motivation
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1. Introduction The development of technology in recent years has offered new solutions to the limitations of the traditional methods. The weblog-based collaborative learning facilitates interaction and communication, enhances discussion and helps...
