Literacy is not only defines as the ability of reading and write but also it to think critically cultivate information. This study aims analyze literacy experiences L1 L2 English speakers. interviewed two language speakers, J a native speaker, K non-native speaker. The result showed that despite differences in learning L2, some similarities are discovered. interview, both required cognitive ski...

this paper aims at investigating the acquisition of italian complex predicates by native speakers of persian. complex predication is not as pervasive a phenomenon in italian as it is in persian. yet italian native speakers use complex predicates productively; spontaneous data show that persian learners of italian seem to be perfectly aware of italian complex predicates and use this familiar fea...

abstract the role of efl lecturers’ first language (l1) in the efl courses has been an ongoing debate. a monolingual approach to efl suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (fl) classroom improves learning of the target language. accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of iranian lecturers and efl learners towards using l1 as...

This study investigates the practices of native, native-like and non-native speakers English in academic writing. The researchers developed validated a survey with Likert items. items were created using researchers’ personal experience, literature an open-ended three administered to 31 researchers. resulting was through cognitive interviewing piloting 30 respondents. conducted 190 participants ...

Ezhil(எழல) is a Tamil language based interpreted procedural programming language. Tamil keywords and grammar are chosen to make the native Tamil speaker write programs in the Ezhil(எழல) system. Ezhil(எழல) allows easy representation of computer program closer to the Tamil language logical constructs equivalent to the conditional, branch and loop statements in modern English based programming lan...

This research discusses Mandarin syntactic errors of Indonesian learners, performed at the elementary stage. It aims to categorize and identify them. The researchers follow Corder’s steps in error analysis. paper considers four categories errors: omission, addition, replacement, disorder. Finally, seek explain why students commit such errors. results data analysis show that most are classified ...

How Javanese (L1) learners of English (L2) produce durational features of vowels has received increasing interest in the study of second language acquisition because the vowel systems are very disparate. The present production experiment attempts to shed light on the interference by Javanese (L1) on English vowel production (L2). The results are discussed with respect to differences in the vowe...

The article is devoted to the problem of formation linguistic and cultural competence during foreign language classes in middle school. influence intercultural interference will be significantly offset by inclusion linguoculturological aspects content teaching language, which could serve as a system unifying values that allow us understand boundaries our own identity native speaker’s language. ...

The present study investigated the perception and production of English /w/ and /v/ by native speakers of Sinhala, German, and Dutch, with the aim of examining how their native language phonetic processing affected the acquisition of these phonemes. Subjects performed a battery of tests that assessed their identification accuracy for natural recordings, their degree of spoken accent, their rela...

the invisible hands of peer reviewers play a determining role in the eventual fate of submissions to international english-medium journals. this study builds on the assumption that non-native researchers and prospective academic authors may find the whole strive for publication, and more specifically, the tough review process, less threatening if they are aware of journal reviewers’ expectation...