This paper explores interdisciplinary collaboration in English language teaching from a new perspective by analysing the reflections of three subject teachers. Their thoughts provide valuable insights for English language teachers when they pursue collaboration with subject teachers. The three subject teachers worked closely with the researcher on a web-based essay writing teaching project whic...

The purpose of this research is to present the application of grammatical metaphor (nominalization) and some other formal English features in such written texts as formal reports or research papers that can lead to the formation of computer-assisted assessment. The study begins by presenting the definition of a formal report as a written text and categorizing them as more complex than the oral ...

Sounds like h-nmm, hh-aaaah, hn-hn, unkay, nyeah, ummum, uuh and um-hm-uhhm, occur in American English conversation but have thus far escaped systematic study. This article reports a study of both the forms and functions of these items, together with related tokens such as um and uh-huh, in a corpus of American English conversations. These sounds appear not to be lexical, in that they are produ...

This paper reports findings derived from a qualitative research study focused on seven English teachers at a hyperdiverse high school as they learned to analyze their classroom talk for moments of conflict. Using methods derived from interactional ethnography and systemic functional linguistics, the author analyzes the ways that one teacher uses a “heroic White teacher” text, LouAnne Johnson’s ...

This study examines the frequency and functions of code switching in informal conversations among Jordanian pilots, who have created their own jargon. It also explores most frequent English expressions that pilots switch to Arabic discourse. The eight aged between thirty fifty-five were tape-recorded three separate natural settings. data used for purpose finding out what pragmatic communicative...

This study investigates impolite natural Ghanaian conversations using a pragmatic approach. It is aimed at describing the types of impoliteness strategies, how they are linguistically represented and identifying responses toward strategies. research employed qualitative collection. The data were ten which portray distinct society in terms norms, relationship, status power. sources documented tr...