in the present study. The chapter has two sections, in the first of which I pro-vide a brief account of the main implications of applying a mixed-methods approach in re-search design and a brief description of the different ways of designing mixed-methods re-search in 3.2. In the second section, I discuss the use of corpus linguistics as a research method, that is, the quantitative part represented by the application of corpus linguistic tools and the choice of the reference corpus that is compatible
There were studies done on vocabulary acquisition through Internet-based instruction. Many of the studies (e.g. Al-Jarf, 2007; Kaur and Hegelheimer, 2005; Smidt and Hegelheimer, 2004) showed that students learned vocabulary more effectively when they were involved incidentally or directly in vocabulary tasks
Methodology Critical Discourse Analysis In writing this paper, the writer derives the theory from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which is an approach to the analysis of discourse which maintains that, language is a social practice and analyses how ideologies and power relations are approached in language (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997, p 258; Lin & Guo, 2016). Fowler and Kress, 1979; Van Dijk, 1993, 1983; Fairclough & Wodak, 1997; Wodak & Meyer, 2009, and Foucault, 1972, are among theorists who have
Among all modern literary criticism, spatial theories lead critics to understand the relationships among nature, individuals and society through a multi-dimensional perspective. Therefore, to conduct a spatial analysis of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, this section will first introduce an overview of Oscar Wilde and his works except for fairy tales, and previous studies on his fairy tales from different literary perspectives, such as psychoanalysis, gender analysis and ascetic analysis. Second, this section
interpersonal, textual and poetic. The systematic study of these functions and the understanding of the way the language is acquired and used in spoken and written text is known as Linguistics. Linguistics focuses mainly on the sound, syntactic and meaning level of a language under the names of Phonetics, Syntax and semantics/ Pragmatics as the core of Linguistics. Further, it is related to every field of life. Linguist started working on these fields of Linguistics and tried to implement them in the life
asserted that absolute, perfect, or full synonyms do not exist” (Divjak 2010:3). However, there are clearly examples where terms significantly overlap in semantic space, and this expansive set of near-synonyms includes the nouns ‘wage’ and ‘salary’. This study explored whether the two words are used differently in texts, despite having extremely similar dictionary definitions. According to ‘Cambridge Dictionaries Online’, both ‘wage’ and ‘salary’ involve a “fixed amount of money” paid to an employee for
Cultural Influence: Arab vs. English Communication Styles According to Joanna Jaworowska a speech act is simply " a minimal functional unit in human communication." Fundamentally, a speech act is the smallest form of communication. According to Austin's theory (1962), any given speech act has three possible meanings: the propositional meaning, the illocutionary meaning, and the perlocutionary meaning (Jaworowska). For instance, the literal meaning might be: it's cold in here. The illocutionary meaning of
Diversity is when individuals differ in race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, religion, ability, geography, and/or age. Teachers will be required to teach in diverse classrooms with a variety of cultures and diversities. It is important for teachers to first learn how learning occurs in order to effectively teach all students in a diverse classroom. According to Moore (2009), learning is defined as “relatively permanent change in an individual’s capacity for performance as a result of experience
A correlation between the corpus callosum and "developmental language disorders" Abstract: Various types of language disorders affect a considerable amount of children academically and socially worldwide. This article focuses on developmental language disorders (DLD) caused by central auditory processing disorders (CAPD). A CAPD is defined as showing "difficulties discriminating, identifying and retaining sounds after the ears have "heard" the sounds." Both language and auditory are processed
In this study the author reviews the role of code switching in teaching second/foreign language from contractive analysis point of view and discusses how it helps develop learners ' interlanguage pragmatics. To this end first contrastive analysis hypothesis and its implications in teaching foreign languages as well as he notion of L1 transfer are reviewed. Then learner 's language system and the way it changes over time is investigated. The importance of pragmatics in language use and how it can