Using British Literature to Teach Empathy to the Chinese University Students Majoring in English Language

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

how to teach the suprasegmentals of english to farsi-speakers learning english as a foreign language

the major objective of the present writer is to survey some of the problems that iranian learners of english encounter as to the use of english stress patterns and intonation. it seems rather obvious that the main source of difficulty in the use of english stress and intonation is the interference comingfrom the learners' mother tongue, i.e. persian. the present writer also tries to offer ...

Measuring Attitudinal Disposition of Undergraduate Students to English Language Learning: The Nigerian University Experience

The purpose of this study was to investigate the undergraduate students’ attitudinal disposition towards English language learning owing to their scholastic disposition to English language in the course of their studying in a Nigerian university. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The sample consisted of an intact class of 332 Part 3 undergraduate students who registere...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...