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Figurative Language in Commencement Speeches: Speakers in the Entertainment and Business Industries 毕业典礼演讲中的比喻语言:娱乐和商业行业的演讲者

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1019

Ya-ling Chang, Michael Tanangkingsing

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Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of Translated Japanese Immigration Law 日语移民法翻译的词汇语法分析

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1021

Kasumi Arciaga

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Teachers' Perspectives on Translanguaging as a Pedagogical Resource in Senior High School English Classes 教师视角下的高中英语翻译教学资源

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1022

K. L. Macawile, S. Plata

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Repeated Exposure to Vocabulary Websites and Academic Vocabulary Retention by University Students in Japan 日本大学生反复接触词汇网站与学术词汇记忆

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1005

Josephine Mirador, Timothy H. Ellsworth

{"title":"Repeated Exposure to Vocabulary Websites and Academic Vocabulary Retention by University Students in Japan","authors":"Josephine Mirador, Timothy H. Ellsworth","doi":"10.59588/2961-3094.1005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1005","url":null,"abstract":"More recent advances in technology-based language learning saw an increase in the number of specific websites to help students acquire target vocabulary. Although most of the websites are fun and get students “hooked into the learning process,” the question that needs addressing is whether or not the use of websites actually results in increased and long-term vocabulary improvement for learners. This paper reports on our findings from four phases of an investigation that attempted to determine whether two vocabulary websites worked to increase our students’ academic vocabulary. The procedure and findings will be presented alongside each of the four phases this research evolved into. The presentation will discuss the results of a four-phase investigation on the efficacy of vocabulary websites in improving post-practice vocabulary test scores of students in a foreign studies university in Japan. The investigation mainly adopted statistical tools to determine whether the performance of students in consecutive post-practice tests actually improved. The findings revealed moderate gains in scores only in the initial phases for the groups. This research is relevant in that it adds to the body of literature investigating the efficacy of language learning websites in the acquisition and provides empirical data that support the use of websites in class. However, the results also challenge those of previous studies because the gains found were not fully sustained in most of the cases examined.","PeriodicalId":131541,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English and Applied Linguistics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123431364","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}

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A Qualitative Analysis of Meetings in a New Zealand and an Australian Work Environment Using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking Framework 运用戴尔·海姆斯的讲话民族志框架对新西兰和澳大利亚工作环境中的会议进行定性分析

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1003

Mildred A. Rojo -Laurilla

{"title":"A Qualitative Analysis of Meetings in a New Zealand and an Australian Work Environment Using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking Framework","authors":"Mildred A. Rojo -Laurilla","doi":"10.59588/2961-3094.1003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1003","url":null,"abstract":"Using Dell Hymes’ ethnography of speaking, this study explored the characteristics of meetings in one New Zealand medical corporate team environment and the characteristics of meetings in an Australian team environment within a not-for-profit sector. Utilizing the S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G Framework, similarities and differences were articulated through qualitative methods, and the analysis yielded four themes, including (a) degree of formality affecting the length of meetings, (b) adherence to roles and purpose of the meetings, (c) agenda, minutes versus “notes,” and (d) modes of interaction and communication. The study demonstrates the applicability of the Dell Hymes framework in the analysis of more current and industry-specific speech communities. Albeit limited in its scope as only meetings were analyzed, it opens more opportunities for further research, such as investigating other facets of the same speech communities or other areas of the medical and not-for-profit sectors. The study may have implications for using English for specific purposes, business communication, in the understanding of competencies of workers expected to join these types of communities, language learning, and applied linguistics in general.","PeriodicalId":131541,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English and Applied Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123880669","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}

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Lexical and Grammatical Features of Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) on Academic Partnerships 学术合作协议备忘录(MOA)的词汇和语法特征

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1004

M. Madrunio

{"title":"Lexical and Grammatical Features of Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) on Academic Partnerships","authors":"M. Madrunio","doi":"10.59588/2961-3094.1004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1004","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decades, internationalization has become a byword in many educational institutions. Higher education institutions are aware that a means by which they can offer good quality education is by engaging in partnerships with international institutions. International linkages established by academic institutions have a wider reach such that teaching and learning, research, community, and extension programs may have an international flavor. In forging partnerships, institutions would sign an agreement called the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), which stipulates provisions expected from the parties involved. Employing the framework of Johnson and Coulthard (2010) on the linguistic features of legal documents, the study examined 20 local and international MOAs on academic partnerships. Findings revealed that seven out of the 11 linguistic features abound in the local MOAs. These are binomial expressions; generic/cognitive structuring; legal archaisms; modality; negators; sentence length and complexity; and specialized, distinctive, and technical legal lexis. For international MOAs, only four out of the 11 linguistic features were found to be notable. These are generic/cognitive structuring, modality, negators, and sentence length and complexity. These features were found to occur at least 50 times or more in the contracts, which may cause ambiguity to the readers. Finally, with the dearth of studies using agreements as corpus, it is recommended that other types of agreement be examined, such as non-disclosure agreement, cooperative agreement, confidentiality agreement, intellectual property assignment agreement, among others. Other linguistic features may also be investigated, such as lexical repetition, formulaic expressions, French words and Latinisms, syntactic discontinuities, performative verbs, and euphemisms.","PeriodicalId":131541,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English and Applied Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126100910","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}

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A Tale of Language Ownership and Identity in a Multilingual Society: Revisiting Functional Nativeness 多语社会中语言所有权与身份的故事:重新审视功能本族性

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1000

Loy Lising, M. L. S. Bautista

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Understanding the Phonological Strengths of Children with Tourette Syndrome 了解图雷特综合症儿童的语音优势

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1002

Aileen C. Bautista, A. Villaverde, R. Lucas

{"title":"Understanding the Phonological Strengths of Children with Tourette Syndrome","authors":"Aileen C. Bautista, A. Villaverde, R. Lucas","doi":"10.59588/2961-3094.1002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1002","url":null,"abstract":"Tourette’s Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder manifested in the form of motor and phonic tics (Thibault et al., 2007). Albeit the accumulating evidence shows how the condition affects people with TS, there appears to be a lack of studies that attempt to determine the advantages of children with TS, especially their phonological strengths. Informed by the innateness theory and biological determinism theory, this experimental research pursues to identify the phonological strengths of individuals with TS. Specifically, the analysis seeks to identify the phonemes uttered accurately and inaccurately by the three respondents. The study utilized Children’s Nonword Repetition (CNRep) as its instrument. The respondents repeated the nonwords from CNRep, and the accuracy of the utterances was analyzed. The results showed that the children with TS have phonological strengths and weaknesses, influenced by their motor and phonic tics. The respondents also displayed a fast response rate, which is believed to be the effect of the tics in the basal ganglia region. The findings reveal that they do not differ from typically-developing children as the study also proved that they also have innate mechanisms in phonological utterances.","PeriodicalId":131541,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English and Applied Linguistics","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116698368","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}

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Speech Act Patterns in American and Filipino Online Selling Advertisements 美国和菲律宾网络销售广告中的言语行为模式

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1001

Jeramie B. Landicho

{"title":"Speech Act Patterns in American and Filipino Online Selling Advertisements","authors":"Jeramie B. Landicho","doi":"10.59588/2961-3094.1001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1001","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing the speech act patterns used by American and Filipino online sellers provide us with information on how they structure their descriptions and promotions in the field of advertising. Pragmatically, this also gives an array of information about their cultural contexts to understand the marketing strategies of those who are in the inner and outer circles in Kachru’s model. This study used a self-collected corpus of 30 American and 30 Filipino online selling advertisements on Facebook Marketplace. These advertisements were analyzed using the speech act theory. A descriptive method of analysis was also conducted to determine emojis/emoticons, recurring punctuation marks, and symbols. The findings highlighted that the common speech act patterns between the two are assertive (A), directive-assertive (DA), directive (D), assertivedirective (AD), and assertive-expressive (AE). All these patterns are evident in the American advertisements, which convey that Filipino online sellers are also exposed and follow the Western format. Expressive patterns that promote rapport and relationships are also evident in Filipino online selling advertisements. The language of advertising continues to evolve, and the emotions and the culture are given significance.","PeriodicalId":131541,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English and Applied Linguistics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127177682","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}

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Developing Filipino ESL Learners’ Reading Performance through Effort Praise: A Growth Mindset Reading Intervention 通过努力表扬培养菲律宾语学习者的阅读能力:成长型思维的阅读干预

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.59588/2961-3094.1006

K. A. Calingasan, S. Plata

{"title":"Developing Filipino ESL Learners’ Reading Performance through Effort Praise: A Growth Mindset Reading Intervention","authors":"K. A. Calingasan, S. Plata","doi":"10.59588/2961-3094.1006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59588/2961-3094.1006","url":null,"abstract":"The present study attempted to investigate whether praising the reading effort of Filipino struggling readers would lead to increased reading performance. A total of 60 seventh-grade students, initially categorized under the frustration-reading level from a public junior high school in Cotabato City, were invited to participate in this experimental research. The students completed the effort-ability and mindset surveys to group them based on their belief in the effort-ability relationship and their mindset on reading abilities. Next, they answered three reading comprehension tests with varying levels of difficulty. After getting a passing score on the first reading test, the students in both groups (inverse rule group with fixed mindset = 27, positive rule group with growth mindset = 19) were praised for their effort by their teacher. The analysis from the independent samples t-test revealed that struggling readers with a growth mindset in the positive rule group significantly performed better in the reading tests than those with a fixed mindset in the inverse rule group after receiving effort praise from their teacher. In addition, results from the Pearson product-moment correlation showed a significant positive relationship between the mindset and the reading performance of the ESL struggling readers. It implies that when students have a growth mindset, they will most likely have an increased reading performance. Conversely, students with a fixed mindset will most likely have an impaired reading performance.","PeriodicalId":131541,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English and Applied Linguistics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134584170","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}

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