the idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. on one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. to this end, the present study started with t...

Shifts in the awareness towards language may lead to new attitude and a selection process of certain features among many forms sign can have community ultimately change. Drawing from usage-based views (Bybee, 2006; Hopper, 1987), studies on perception attitudes (McKenzie 2015; Dragojevic et al., 2021) ethnography communication (Hymes, 1974), this paper will investigate with matched guise partic...

there have been two custom views on the relation of metaphor and philosophy.some philosophers (esp.analytical philosophers)take metaphor dispensable,and tend to philosophical texts without metaphor,constituted on proper usage of words. others take metaphor indispensable as the foundation of philosophical concepts.this attitude usually implies reducing philosophy to mythological discourse and in...

The key in language learning and acquisition is exposure towards said language. most feasible for English learners the EFL setting reading due to practicality, continuity, suitable sources. Their success depends on their attitude, motivation, habit. This research sought determine state of learners’ habit toward English. qualitative exploratory was initiated 2020, taking place at State Islamic U...

In this study, the aim is to develop a measurement tool that can be used measure attitudes towards Turkish Sign Language (TSL). For purpose, researchers followed systematic process. The study group consists of students in special education departments three different universities' faculties spring semester 2019-2020 academic year. developed scale was applied 510 total. data obtained from were r...

A sentential theory of attitudes holds that propositions (the things that agents believe and know) are sentences of a representation language. Given such a theory, it is natural to suggest that the proposition expressed by an utterance of natural language is also a sentence of a representation language. This leads to a straightforward account of the semantics of attitude verbs. However, this ki...