The attitude one has towards language learning determines the success or failure of learning the language. To this effect, this study aimed to explore EFL learners’ attitudes towards communicative language learning and the relationship between learners’ attitudes and English language achievement. To address these objectives, the study adopted a survey research design. Two hundred seventeen grad...

The attitude one has towards language learning determines the success or failure of learning the language. To this effect, this study aimed to explore EFL learners’ attitudes towards communicative language learning and the relationship between learners’ attitudes and English language achievement. To address these objectives, the study adopted a survey research design. Two hundred seventeen grad...

Lexical-semantic impairments are common consequences of acquired neurological damage. However, little is known about the benefits of existing treatment methods for this type of language impairment. Objective To evaluate current research into lexical-semantic interventions for adults with dementia, TBI or stroke. Methods The PubMed, PsycInfo and SCOPUS databases were searched for studies rel...

28 We examined developmental programming studies that reported sex-specific effects 29 published between 2012 and 2014, and examined whether the authors reported a 30 statistical approach to explicitly test whether the effect of treatment differed between the 31 sexes, e.g., a sex by treatment interaction term. Less than half of the studies that reported 32 sex-specific effects described explic...

The planning of large infrastructure projects such as inner-city subway tracks is a highly collaborative process in which numerous experts from different domains are involved. While performing the planning task, widely differing scales have to be taken into consideration, ranging from the kilometer scale for the general routing of the track down to the centimeter scale for the detailed design o...

According to European standards, the promotion of learning more than one foreign language implies a comprehensive reform policies with new objectives, approaches activities and accessible digital teaching/learning platforms. Throughout history, has experienced changes in its evolution from traditional into attractive, creative effective communicative approach-method. Relying on idea that learne...

PURPOSE To verify whether the use of a shorter filmed sample influences the results of pragmatic assessment in children with language impairment. METHODS Data was obtained from videotaped samples and protocols for pragmatic analysis of 30 children between 3 and 6 years old. Each 15-minute sample (total moment) was analyzed and divided into three moments with five minutes each (initial, medial...

This article examines the problem of using effective methods teaching grammatical aspect a second foreign language. It highlights importance skills and abilities for successful formation language communicative competence. is revealed that methodology grammar should be based on rational combination comparative communicative-cognitive approaches. The authors lay emphasis necessity relying first l...

This study examines the visual aesthetic function of English signs in line with ethnographic approaches as a means of achieving various symbolic and communicative implications in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Jordan. Having coded the data in 6 urban streets of the major Jordanian cities, the social semiotic analysis centers on the visual layout of signs based on the typographical features of...