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The study investigates the linguistic basis of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels in English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing. Specifically, it examines whether CEFR levels can be distinguished with reference to syntactic
Ghulam Abbas Khushik, A. Huhta
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Sexism in Indonesia’s Tenth Grade EFL Companion Textbook
The present study investigates the kind of sexism reflected in the companion textbook used in Senior High School: the frequency of female and male occurrences, the female and male titles, the graphic depiction of females and men, the masculine pronoun ...
Ratna Afina Firstyani+2 more
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Erasmus students using English as a "lingua franca": does study abroad in a non-English-speaking country improve L2 English? [PDF]
There is a lack of research on the impact of study abroad (SA) on the development of L2 English when students study in non-anglophone countries. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by examining 39 Catalan/Spanish students who, as part of an ...
Arnó Macià, Elisabet+2 more
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A matter of complexity: Subordination in sign languages
Since natural languages exist in two different modalities - the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages - it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on ...
R. Pfau, M. Steinbach, A. Herrmann
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In the mind of the native speaker, there is an idea of the syntactic “optimum”, which allows them to use linguistic units most effectively to achieve a desired communicative effect. It contains a set of pieces of intui- tive (“naïve”) knowledge about the
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THE ANALYSIS OF CLAUSE COMPLEX IN THE STUDENTS’ CASUAL CONVERSATION
This study reported on an analysis of the transcript of the students’ conversation. It highlighted the way in which the transcript was analyzed qualitatively on the issue of clause complexity based on the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics ...
Nur Ifadloh, Zahratun Nufus
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This article shows that a sociolinguistic analysis of the letters from the Middle Kingdom temple papyri from el-Lahun can be used to identify and further examine superior/subordinate relationships. The temple officials in a subordinate position use reoccurring patterns in their choice of communicative strategies when they need to ask actions from their
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Inferentials in spoken English [PDF]
Although there is a growing body of research on inferential sentences (Declerck 1992, Delahunty 1990, 1995, 2001, Koops 2007, Pusch 2006), most of this research has been on their forms and functions in written discourse.
Calude, Andreea S., Delahunty, Gerald P.
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: From the perspective of systemic functional linguistics, this paper makes an in-depth multimodal discourse analysis of English advertising using the CNN network as a framework.
Xiaohong Ji, Xiaoming Hu, Tongtong Shao
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