Students motivated by a desire to study literary art in the broadest sense of the term will find an intellectual home in the Program in Comparative Literature. The Program in Comparative Literature gives students the opportunity to develop their critical faculties through the analysis of literature across cultures, and through the exploration of literary and critical theory. By crossing nationa...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

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Sometimes the students of ESP or Non-English majoring error in using tenses. The low level students' understanding tense is one factors that greatly influences errors making sentences. objective this research was to describe students’ and its causes In research, writers used a qualitative method form descriptive analysis (percentage) included observation, collecting test, analyzing, interpretin...

In this paper the authors suggest that teaching students to use freely available text-profiling software represents an innovative strategy and possible solution to needs of non-native English speakers who leave school without an adequate English vocabulary. First the research basis is described for a new text-profiler designed to help students acquire the high-frequency vocabulary they need in ...

English for Specific Purpose (ESP) instruction in vocational schools necessitates the use of materials that are tailored to students' particular requirements. However, currently available institutions lack an adequate needs analysis. In order address this issue, purpose study is determine requirements students computer and network engineering department procedure text teaching materials. Eleven...

One of the difficulties in pronouncing English for Japanese learners can be traced to unfamiliar English syllable structures (such as CCCV or CVC). It is commonly believed that native speakers of Japanese overcome this problem through the use of epenthetic vowels. This study examines to what extent these extra vowels are suppressed to approximate more closely the syllable structure of English a...