The purpose of the study is to find out features phrases in interlanguage Chinese students studying Russian language. By analyzing a number works related term "interlanguage", comparing concept publications various specialists, article "interlanguage" clarified, which has been updated recent years and foreign linguistics, similarities differences their understandings are found. Highlighting stu...

evidence occupies a paramount position in any logical endeavor and research article is consensually considered a predominant site of such an endeavor. one interesting area of rhetoric which addresses the source and reliability of evidence is quality metadiscourse. in this qualitative study, quality metadiscourse strategies (i.e., evidentials, hedges, boosters and disclaimers) are examined to in...

This study contributes to the growing field of research on interlanguage pragmatic development with a study on the development of argumentative discourse ability by second language learners of German. I will be focusing on facework, that is, the use of verbal strategies that allow the speaker to have his or her social identities, particular personal qualities, and attributes validate...

A certain group of English verbs, the ergatives, is consistently mis-passivized in Chinese-speakers' interlanguage. Comparison of the ergative construction in Chinese and English shows that they share similar properties. However, this does not seem to facilitate learning of the target English construction. Furthermore, the passive ergatives are not attributable to exemplification in either the ...

This paper explores the concept of pragmatic meta-analytic studies in eLearning. Much educational technology literature focuses on developers and teachers describing and reflecting on their experiences. Few connections are made between these experiential ‘stories’. The data set is fragmented and offers few generalisable lessons. The field needs guidelines about what can be learnt from such sing...

The present study is an attempt to explore the effect of one of the pragmatic elements of discourse (namely the conceptualizable agent) on overpassivization of English unaccusative verbs. Through employing the questionnaire originally used by Ju, (2000), 206 Iranian intermediate and advanced English majors were asked to choose the more grammatical form (active or passive) in target sentences wi...

Typically, visually-grounded language learning systems only accept feature data about objects in the environment that are explicitly mentioned, whether through annotation labels or direct reference through natural language. We show that when objects are described ambiguously using natural language, a system can use a combination of the pragmatic principles of Contrast and Conventionality, and m...

Three-dimensional learning (3DL) is an approach to science instruction that was developed for K-12 education and can provide guidance improving undergraduate physics laboratories. In this paper, we describe efforts comprehensively integrate 3DL into a sequence of introductory life sciences (IPLS) laboratory courses. This paper tailored faculty interested in advancing their course's goals by sim...

This study examined how motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and  length  of  residence  in  the  target language area affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills. The study attempted to account for differential pragmatic development among 50  graduate-level  Korean  students  in  relation  to  individual  factors  mentioned  above.  The  data were...

In the last decade, many studies on politeness in Arabic have been published various platforms, but until now results not systematically compiled and used as a module or teaching material. addition, pragmatics materials, especially regarding principles strategies, currently do refer much to of latest research, even though these can be basis context applying, testing, developing theoretical fram...