This study aims to implement grammatical competence strategies (inductive, inductive, and interactive) in developing students' writing grammar their attitudes towards English as a foreign language. To achieve the purpose of study, researchers applied tools target sample second intermediate grade female students at Maysaloon Girls School two groups, Experimental control were used this study. The...

In the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), as in any other type interlanguage, phraseology contributes significantly to successful academic writing (Biber and Barbieri 2007). For particular learner varieties, such Romanian English, few studies have examined formulaic sequences (Hyland 2008), mainly focusing on lexico-grammatical patterns (Chitez 2012, 2014). The proposed paper investi...

In the literature, some researchers (e.g. Gross, Fischer and Miller 1989, Charles, Reed and Derryberry 1994) treat antonym pairs as either canonical (for example old/young, cold/hot and happy/sad) or non-canonical (aged/youthful, cool/hot, happy/miserable), while others assume or argue for a continuum between the two categories (e.g. Herrmann, Chaffin, Conti, Peters and Robbins 1979, Murphy 200...

To test conflicting hypotheses regarding amnesic H.M.'s language abilities, this study examined H.M.'s sentence production on the Language Competence Test (Wiig & Secord, 1988). The task for H.M. and 8 education-, age-, and IQ-matched controls was to describe pictures using a single grammatical sentence containing prespecified target words. The results indicated selective deficits in H.M.'s pic...

Several videogames allow players to form their own narratives by making the player choose certain options with different dialogues and thus representations. This can be problematic when exploring representation of gender from perspective player’s experiences. I argue that one way overcome this is use corpus linguistic methods. In paper, videogame series The Witcher (CD Projekt Red, 2007, CD 201...

Mental representations have continuous as well as discrete, combinatorial properties. For example, while predominantly discrete, phonological representations also vary continuously; this is reflected by gradient effects in instrumental studies of speech production. Can an integrated theoretical framework address both aspects of structure? The framework we introduce here, Gradient Symbol Process...