this paper highlights the folk perception of impoliteness among ghanaians in view of watts’ (2003) notion of first order impoliteness. the study showed that impoliteness is not just an opposite of politeness, but the manifestation of non-cooperation, disapproval, and mutual antipathy through certain communicative behaviours that signal disrespect. these communicative behaviours include ‘interru...

While there are a wide variety of studies about communicative action theory of Habermas, there is the need for building of indicators and variables for quantitative methods of assessing this concept in a particular case study. Especially as the development of communicative action theory has created new perspectives in urban planning, it is necessary to assess and promote this concept in cities ...

Debate pedagogy may hold great potential for improving second language (L2) writing skills. This study investigates this by examining the effects of a debate intervention on quality argumentative essays Dutch secondary school students. The consisted number speaking and activities, including case-writing note-taking. study, which employed pretest–posttest–delayed-posttest design with control gro...

The article focuses on linguistic hedging which helps avoid sounding arrogant or too certain of what you state in a research article. relevance the theme is based fact that nowadays increasing number Russian-speaking authors make attempts to publish their articles international journals. Writing papers English language should follow some rules adopted communicative culture. One such using as me...

The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated education model debate-argumentative writing and specifically suggest the teaching learning method in model. For this, I proposed a circulative debating argumentative including processes topic formation, outline creation, debating, writing, feedback, online term paper evaluation. One main characteristics that two activities circulate repetit...

This study examined whether the linguistic distance between first (L1) and second (L2) language is a significant determinant of L2 writing skills 292 adult immigrants from 39 different source countries, who were beginner learners Spanish L2. Gender, age, length residence in Spain, education level as proxy for literacy L1, enrolment courses, overall communicative competence also considered. Usin...

This research attempts to show the effect of Grammar Translation Method (GTM) on non-English students at scholarship program. Open response questionnaire become main instrument collect data which involving 29 from Arabic and Islamic Education 4th semester. The are analyzed using textual analysis give brief description students’ response. concludes that GTM is beneficial for basic English knowle...

COVID-19 pandemic forced the entire world community to reconsider its educational learning strategies. Modern Information and Communication Technologies have provided mastery of writing skills by philology students during distance learning. Writing are acquired in texts different genres: primary, written without resource literature, secondary, based on primary sources. Interactive activities In...