International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation最新文献

{"title":"The Similarities Between the Errors in the Mother Tongue of the Autistic Children and the Target Language of the Second/Foreign Language Learners","authors":"T. A. Al-absi","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20210701.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20210701.12","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the first investigation of the errors in the mother tongue of the children with autism, and compare between these errors and the errors in the production of Arab learners of English as second/foreign language. Based on the previous literature, the current study noted that language delay and the impaired social skills in the children with autism are the most prominent reasons which resulted in their impaired skills of language. In addition to, primary reasons affected the production of the second /foreign language such as the delayed learning of the target language, and the lack of interaction with the native speakers in social settings. Overall, these similar reasons between the two groups led to similar errors in the productions of their native and target languages. Aims: The primary goal of the present study is to explore the similarities between the performance of the children with autism when they use their mother tongue, and the errors in the production of Arab learners of English as second /foreign language when they use the target language. Methods & Procedures: The sample of this study consisted of two Yemeni children with high functioning autism aged 7;6 and 8;3 years. The examiner used the expressive language task to elicit the morpho-syntactic structures from the two cases, and compared it to the previous literature of Arab learners of English as second /foreign language, to find out the similarities between the errors in their productions. Results: The findings of this study revealed the similarities between the errors which occur in the answers of the autistic children when they use their mother tongue, and the errors which occur in the production of Arab learners of English as second /foreign language due to their delayed learning of the native/target languages. These errors classified into omission, substitution, or deletion of grammatical structures explored in this study and included (adjectives, preposition, articles, subject-verb agreement and plurality). The children with autism and the learner of English as second/foreign language substituted the order of the adjectives at the sentence level, omitted and overused the articles, substituted the prepositions with others, replacing the feminine suffixes with masculine suffixes in the production of the autistic children, and omitting the 3rd person singular in the production of the ESL/EFL learners resulted in subject-verb disagreement, and impaired plurality by replacing the singular nouns with plural nouns in the learners of English as second/foreign language or the opposite in the children with autism.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114959321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Code- Switching as a Language Teaching Strategy Based on the Grammar- Translation Method for Comprehension Enhancement","authors":"Aljun Araneta Desoyo","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20210701.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20210701.11","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of code- switching as a language strategy anchored on the grammar- translation method for comprehension enhancement to the grade seven junior high school students at Tanauan School of Craftsmanship and Home Industries, Tanauan, Leyte. It lasted for four (4) weeks from February 12 to March 12, 2019 using the 60 grade 7 students enrolled during the school year 2018-2019. The 60 students comprised the four sections belonging in the heterogeneous group and were then divided into comparable groups of 15 students per section: the control group and experimental group. The control group was exposed to the English-only-policy method while the experimental group was exposed to the code- switching strategy taught by the English teachers. To find the effectiveness of the code- switching strategy, the true-experimental design was used, employing the pre-test and post-test scheme. Since the experiment aimed to investigate the effectiveness of code- switching, in comparison with the English-only-policy approach, there was a need to measure achievement through fifty (50) item pre- test and post- test. Mean ratings of the students in both groups in the achievement test were analyzed. The findings showed that the achievement of the control and experimental group was the same in the pre-test; teaching capitalization was satisfactory, teaching punctuation, grammar and sentence structure was fairly satisfactory, and teaching word usage was satisfactory. The computed t- values were all not significant. The performance of both groups in the evaluations was very satisfactory but the experimental group showed a better performance than the control group. The results of the post-test of the control group were teaching capitalization was very satisfactory; teaching punctuation was very good; teaching grammar, teaching sentence structure and teaching word usage were very satisfactory; and the combination was very satisfactory. In the experimental group: teaching capitalization, teaching punctuation and teaching grammar were outstanding; teaching sentence structure and teaching word usage were very satisfactory; and the combination was outstanding. The computed t-values in teaching word usage was not significant, teaching capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure were significant, while the combination was also significant at 0.05 level of significance. The performance of both groups in the pre-and post-tests along the five language competencies tested is found to be “significant”.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125885087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethnopoetic Analysis of the Dagbamba Song Riddles","authors":"M. A. Rashid","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20200603.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20200603.11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the song riddle (Tuya duɣibu) among the Dagbamba in the Northern Region of Ghana. Data for this study were taken from recordings of interviews as well as native speaker intuition and analyzed within the theoretical framework of Jacobson’s Ethnopoetic Theory. The paper shows that the Dagbamba song riddle has the antecedent and a response as its parts. I show in the paper that the Dagbamba song riddles have alliteration and pilling as a repetitive pattern. Again, the paper shows that the dominant ratio of the number of elements (elements pattern) employed in the Dagbamba song riddle performance of both the antecedents and the responses is 2:2. It is also shown in the paper that there is no syllabic equivalence in the Dagbamba song riddle, but short and open syllables are most prominently employed in both the song riddle antecedents and responses. Also shown in this paper is the opening formula. The song riddle is peculiar because, apart from it being sang as a song, it is also accompanied with gestures and dance during its enactment. As a relationship, the Dagbamba song riddle cautions the Dagbamba society against divorce didactically. The paper serves as a way of documenting the knowledge of literature and augmenting the existing knowledge of literature among the Dagbamba since modernity is seen as a threat to Dagbamba folklore.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"496 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125958932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Comparative Study on Vocabulary Learning Strategies by Chinese English Majors and Non-English Majors","authors":"Tian Tian","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.17","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to explore English vocabulary learning beliefs and strategies employed by English majors and non-English majors. A questionnaire was administered to 210 students (105 English majors and 105 non-English majors) from two universities to explore English vocabulary learning beliefs and strategies employed by English majors and non-English majors in China. The questionnaire is adapted from Gu and Hu [1]. Statistical descriptions and independent samples t-test are undertaken to process the data collected. The analyses of the data reveal both Chinese English and non-English majors are interested in learning vocabulary. They report adopting a number of learning strategies in their vocabulary learning processes. They appear to use metacognitive strategies more often when they learn vocabulary, especially self-initiation. At cognitive level, they are both inclined to adopt dictionary use, guessing, note-taking and activation strategies very often, while encoding and rehearsal are less used. English majors’ strategy use frequencies seem all higher than non-English majors, except note-taking strategies. English majors show significant differences from non-English majors in some vocabulary learning strategies like: self-initiation, dictionary use and contextual guessing. The study suggests that teachers should encourage students to hold a positive belief on vocabulary learning and to employ both metacognitive and cognitive strategies in learning vocabulary. Students should pay as much attention to cognitive strategies as to metacognitive strategies.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131207163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study of English Translation of Six Chapters of A Floating Life from the Perspective of Skopos Theory","authors":"Ningyi Li","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.16","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese classical literature is the essence of Chinese traditional culture. With the revitalization of China, various western countries in the world have paid great attention to Chinese history, culture and literature. Many excellent Chinese classical works were translated into English. Shen Fu’s (沈複) Fu Sheng Liu Ji («浮生六記») is a representative work of Chinese classical literature and Lin Yutang’s (林語堂) version Six Chapters of A Floating Life is well-received in the English world. This paper attempts to study the application of the Skopos theory with the basic analysis on the translation strategies which is not including domestication and foreignization, but also translation techniques, such as amplification, deletion and annotation from the perspective of theoretical structure. Besides the basis of different translation strategies and techniques using in Lin’s translated version Six Chapters of A Floating Life, the author also try to analyze and illustrate from the perspective of Skopos theory, translators should have the concern of taking the target readers’ demands into consideration firstly before translating texts, for the target readers have their own cultural backgrounds, expectations to translated texts and requirements of cross-cultural communication.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129668841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Survey on the Demotivation in English Learning Among Chinese Rural Middle School Students","authors":"Gengchun Li","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.14","url":null,"abstract":"Demotivation, as an emerging field of study, has received increasing attention in recent years. It has been found by many Chinese researchers that various demotivators, both external and internal, could lead to students’ decrease of motivation in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). A less researched area, however, is the demotivators in the EFL learning of Chinese rural middle school students, who account for a large proportion of the student population in middle schools in China. In the present research study, a total of 99 students in a rural middle school in Yancheng, China were randomly selected as respondents, among whom a questionnaire survey was conducted on their EFL learning motivation and demotivation. It is found by a factor analysis that the biggest factor contributing to the demotivation of these students in English learning is the lack of interest in learning, among other internal and external factors, such as decline in self-confidence, poor learning abilities, lack of learning strategies, difficulty of textbook articles, and rare use of multi-media in English classes. No significant differences were found between male and female students in their English learning demotivation. This study not only duplicates the results of previous studies, but also puts forward constructive suggestions to eliminate the phenomenon of demotivation in English learning in rural middle schools in China.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116713448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Generation of Anxiety and the Recovery of Self-awareness-interpreting The Sea, the Sea Based on Rollo’s Existentialist Psychology","authors":"Z. Xia, Li Jing","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.13","url":null,"abstract":"Rollo’s existentialist psychology not only finds the reason for human anxiety but also comes up with a solution to the anxiety. Based on Rollo’s existentialist psychology, this thesis applies the close reading to interpret Murdoch’s novel The Sea, the Sea, and then analyze the reason why Charles, the protagonist in the novel, returns to the current and real life from the disordered life at the seaside. His boring childhood has led to his desire for material life, his individual competitiveness and the dominant values of being loved, accepted, and approved, which is presented by his later life when he was working in the theater. With the retirement of Charles from the theater, the lonely life at the seaside destroys his values and consequently causes the loss of his sense of himself, which leads to his disordered life. But Charles’s experience of death and the death of other people have brought back his self-awareness. By interpreting this novel, this paper attempts to explain that the psychological reason for Charles’ chaotic life is his anxiety and the reason for anxiety is the destruction of dominant values. And the recovery of self-consciousness is the key to overcoming anxiety, making him break away from the past and return to his current life. By analyzing the psychological course of the protagonist Charles, this paper tries to strengthen readers’ attention to anxiety, and help them understand anxiety, so as to lead readers find ways to overcome anxiety.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121645511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical Discourse Analysis of Vladimir Putin's Speech Related to Arm Race with the United States in 2018","authors":"R. H. Puspita, Muhammad Dziqie Aulia Al Farauqy, S. Sunarti","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20190504.12","url":null,"abstract":"The weapons war between Russia and America has been going on for a long time. The two countries are racing to make sophisticated weapons. This was always mentioned by Russian President in his speech, even when the main topic of the contents of the speech he delivered was far from gun battles. The purposes of this study are the researcher wants to find out the style of language Putin used in giving speeches and Putin's reasons for discussing America's unilateral resignation from the agreement on stopping the arms race, as well as what motivated Putin to announce Russia's missile superiority. The method used in this study was Teun Van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis method. From the research it was found that the way Putin made a speech he always greeted his listeners with the word \"colleague\" to build good relations with his listeners, and Putin's motivation to offend the American action was to announce that if a gun war occurs it is not Russia who started it but Russia will retaliate on the grounds defend themselves and it is considered a strategy in protecting the security of Russian people.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129053632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the Effect of Wiki-Based Corrective Feedback on Accuracy of L2 Learners’ Written Production","authors":"Shamsurahman Adel, Nik Aloesnisa Nik Mohd Alwi","doi":"10.11648/J.IJALT.20190503.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJALT.20190503.13","url":null,"abstract":"Providing feedback to and correcting errors of learners’ language performance is important in both first (L1) and second language (L2) teaching and learning process. A number of studies have examined the effectiveness of different types of corrective-feedback (CF) on L2 learners’ writing and results showed positive effects [1-3]. However, little has examined the effects of CF on L2 writing via wiki [4-5]. Therefore, the current study aims to provide further insights into the effects of implicit CF on L2 learners’ writing through wiki. Nineteen (n=19) undergraduate L2 learners doing English at University Malaysia Pahang were enrolled in the study. During the pretest session, the learners were required to write an essay on Communication Skills at Workplace for approximately one hour. Next, implicit CF was provided to the essays, and a week later during the posttest session, the learners revised their essays based on the feedback given. Results indicated that wiki-based implicit CF helped L2 learners to improve the accuracy of their written productions as evident in total number of error per T-unit (E/T-unit) and total number of error per clauses (E/C). The findings of the study would have great impact and would help the L2 professors and students teaching and learning the L2.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127492251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Overseas Communication of English Translation of The Book of Rites from the Perspective of Translation-communication Model","authors":"Yue Wu, Junping Liu","doi":"10.11648/j.ijalt.20190503.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijalt.20190503.12","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese culture has gone through many stages of overseas communication before the contemporary call for its going-out. The Book of Rites, as an indispensable part of Chinese culture, has also experienced ups and downs in the circulation. A comprehensive diachronic collation of the communication history of The Book of Rites is helpful for acquiring effective lessons and inspirations from the ups or efficient communication, on which there has not enough systematic research. Therefore, this thesis wants to initiate the specialized research of The Book of Rites on its communication by answering the following questions from the translation-communication angle: What is the historical process of English translation of The Book of Rites? What were communication realities of English versions of The Book of Rites in different historical periods? The answers are: the overseas communication of English versions of The Book of Rites has gone through 3 stages from initial introduction stage from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, to the gold development of brief translation in the 20th century, and to the cold reception of reprinting of excerption and retranslation in the 21st century. The change from the efficient communication to cold reception urges us to reverse the trend, which has got some resolution possibilities from Lasswell’s communication model that the overseas translators and sinologists should join hands with Chinese native scholars to trans-feel the original idea for overseas readers, and take overseas platforms to achieve the maximum conductance or equivalence to realize efficient communication.","PeriodicalId":106963,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131721109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}