Frequencies and discourse functions of grammatical subject types were investigated in a corpus of forty results and discussion sections selected from four disciplines (Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering). The results and discussion sections were selected from research articles that were published in 2008-2012 issues of prestigious high journals of ...

Assessment  of  grammatical  knowledge  is  a  rather  neglected  area  of  research  in  the  field with  many  open  questions  (Purpura,  2004).  The  present  research  incorporates  recent proposals  about  the  nature  of  grammatical  development  to  create  a  framework  consisting of dimensions of complexity, range and strength, and studies which dimension(s) can best predict the stat...

Abstract This study investigates native German speakers’ and bilingual Turkish/German sensitivity to constraints on verbal agreement with pseudo-partitive subjects such as eine Packung Tabletten (“a pack of pills”). Although number the first noun phrase (headed by a container noun) is considered be norm, second (containee) also possible. We combined scalar acceptability ratings stochastic const...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

Diction with the accuracy and appropriateness of word choices related to meaning, grammatical, social, standard words. The purpose this research is be able see types errors in use diction its factors discussion discourse third sixth grade santri end Islamic Boarding School Darul Ulum Medal Sugio Lamongan. This uses descriptive qualitative type method. data study are form using discussion. techn...

This study aims to describe the word choices contained in Rhoma Irama songs with environmental themes that are seen based on meaning of these songs. The methods used this include stages data collection, analysis and presentation results. At stage it is obtained through literature techniques, listening, taking notes. research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. source was from 7 environment...

The abstract needs to be revised in terms of grammatical errors like in the fifth line: “Cases were children who were children malnutrition...” where it must be added the word “with” or improve the writing to avoid the repetition of the word “children”. In response to this comment which was made according to the grammatical errors in the old manuscript on page 2 second sentence of the manuscrip...

In formulating grammatical descriptions, there is a natural and understandable tendency to focus solely on synchronic structural elements, based on the quite reasonable assumptions that structure is crucial to grammar and that coherent descriptions are possible only for one stage of a language at a time. Thus diachrony becomes irrelevant and extraneous to the goal of typology, under that view. ...