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Exploring the Role of Cultural Teaching in EFL College Programs: An Introspective Study 文化教学在大学英语教学中的作用:一项内省研究

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-18 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.18

H. Aldosari, Ismail Alrefai

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Vowel Hiatus Resolution Processes as Delimiters of Prosodic Domains in Kisa 吉萨语韵律域分隔符的元音间断解析过程

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-10 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.17

E. Ondondo

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Language Management in a Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the City of Maroua: Default Language Policy and Historical Factors 马鲁阿市基督复临安息日会教会的语言管理:默认语言政策和历史因素

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-08-04 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.16

Francois Baimada Gigla

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Continuation Task: A Critical Review and Directions for Future Research 续篇任务:批判性回顾与未来研究方向

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-07-28 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.15

Wenxi Zhou

{"title":"Continuation Task: A Critical Review and Directions for Future Research","authors":"Wenxi Zhou","doi":"10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.15","url":null,"abstract":"Continuation task has witnessed a tremendous growth of research since it was firstly advanced by Wang, as an effective approach to L2 learning. The basic idea of continuation task is that learners should first read a given text with the end removed, then they should finish the continual writing in a logical and coherent way with imagination on the basis of the given text. In the process of continuation, learners need to not only fully understand the given text, but create new content, imitate and use the words and structures that appeared in the given text, thus producing interactive alignment effects, and improving the efficiency of learning foreign language. Researches on continuation tasks cover key issues regarding to the effectiveness on L2 learning and task-related or learner-related factors in continuation task that influence L2 learning. Since the number of researchers investigating the application of continuation task to L2 teaching and learning continues to grow, it is necessary to assess the current state of the researches in this area and establish future directions of investigation. This review aims to provide an overview of recent researches on continuation task and offer some suggestions for future researches.","PeriodicalId":352308,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Linguistics","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122273801","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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Mechanics of Sociolinguistic Variation and Pragma-stylistic Inclination in the Qur'anic Discourse 《古兰经》话语中的社会语言变异机制和语用文体倾向

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-07-04 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.14

Sami Al-Heeh, G. Ahmad

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Developing Iraqi EFL School Students' Performance in Creative Writing Skills Through Focus Strategy 运用焦点策略培养伊拉克英语学校学生的创意写作能力

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.12

Sabeeha Hamza Dehham

{"title":"Developing Iraqi EFL School Students' Performance in Creative Writing Skills Through Focus Strategy","authors":"Sabeeha Hamza Dehham","doi":"10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.12","url":null,"abstract":"Research on how gender affects language have been long documented by several studies in the world. In many of these works, mostly done in variationist sociolinguistics, it has been claimed that women and men are different in their speech from one another. The paper investigates gender variation in Wolof-French codeswitching. More specifically it examines how male and female codeswitching are different in terms of frequency, types and other linguistic forms. The conversations of twelve Wolof-French bilingual students and office workers are analysed in this study. Results from this study show that women codeswitch more frequently than men. The study also indicates that intra-sentential codeswitching is the mostly used type in men’s and women’s speech. It has also been shown that the French discourse marker “quoi” is far more used in men speech and constitutes then a linguistic feature that differentiates men and women language. However, even if both genders prefer intra-sentential types of codeswitching, women tend to use it more 61,44% of their speech against 56,66% for men. Men, on the other hand, produce more inter-sentential codeswitching instances than women 13,02% against 12,53%.","PeriodicalId":352308,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Linguistics","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134438550","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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Language Variation: A Case Study of Gender Differences in Wolof-French Codeswitching 语言变异:以沃尔夫-法语语码转换的性别差异为例

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.11

Hafissatou Kane

{"title":"Language Variation: A Case Study of Gender Differences in Wolof-French Codeswitching","authors":"Hafissatou Kane","doi":"10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20200804.11","url":null,"abstract":"Research on how gender affects language have been long documented by several studies in the world. In many of these works, mostly done in variationist sociolinguistics, it has been claimed that women and men are different in their speech from one another. The paper investigates gender variation in Wolof-French codeswitching. More specifically it examines how male and female codeswitching are different in terms of frequency, types and other linguistic forms. The conversations of twelve Wolof-French bilingual students and office workers are analysed in this study. Results from this study show that women codeswitch more frequently than men. The study also indicates that intra-sentential codeswitching is the mostly used type in men’s and women’s speech. It has also been shown that the French discourse marker “quoi” is far more used in men speech and constitutes then a linguistic feature that differentiates men and women language. However, even if both genders prefer intra-sentential types of codeswitching, women tend to use it more 61,44% of their speech against 56,66% for men. Men, on the other hand, produce more inter-sentential codeswitching instances than women 13,02% against 12,53%.","PeriodicalId":352308,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Linguistics","volume":"222 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133719891","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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Language Policies Under Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di Regimes: A Comparative Perspective 朱元璋与朱棣时期的语言政策比较

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-16 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200803.13

Chao Rui

{"title":"Language Policies Under Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di Regimes: A Comparative Perspective","authors":"Chao Rui","doi":"10.11648/j.ijll.20200803.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20200803.13","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempts to examine the differences of the language policies formulation and implementation during the two significant early periods of Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It uses a historical comparative perspective to understand the processes involved in language change. In order to deal with the relationship between Mongolian and Chinese and to develop a system to regulate language use for Chinese, the early Ming government enacted a series of language policies. There were both similarities as well as differences in the policies made by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the two paramount rulers of the Ming dynasty. Whereas the policies during Zhu Yuanzhang time manifested in repression of Mongolian through implementing acculturation measures such as intermarriage between Mongol and Chinese, Zhu Di paid more attention to language harmony characteristic of liberalism toward Mongolian language. Zhu Yuanzhang standardized written language based on the authoritative Nanjing speech. He set up an education system to propagate both a national lingua franca and a vernacular with latter playing important role in promoting the technological advancement. Zhu Di’s regime was also remembered for its efforts in promulgating foreign language education policies, thus on the one hand to establish a rapport with neighboring countries in East Asia, southeast Asia and the inner Western Asia, and on the other hand, to promote the international spread of Chinese language in these regions.","PeriodicalId":352308,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Linguistics","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132342966","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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The Multimodal Representational Characteristics of Mandarin Children’s Disagreement —— A Case Study Based on Diachronic Videos 普通话儿童分歧的多模态表征特征——以历时视频为例

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-06-16 DOI: 10.11648/j.ijll.20200803.14

Rongbin Wang, Rui Zhang

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Research Hotspots and Frontiers of Language Studies in China in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative —— Bibliometrics Analysis Based on CiteSpace “一带一路”背景下中国语言研究的研究热点与前沿——基于CiteSpace的文献计量学分析

International Journal of Language and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-05-13 DOI: 10.11648/J.IJLL.20200803.12

C. Xi

{"title":"Research Hotspots and Frontiers of Language Studies in China in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative —— Bibliometrics Analysis Based on CiteSpace","authors":"C. Xi","doi":"10.11648/J.IJLL.20200803.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.IJLL.20200803.12","url":null,"abstract":"The Belt and Road Initiative was proposed in 2013, which develops economic partnerships with countries along the route actively, and builds a community of shared future, interests and responsibility, borrowing the historical symbol of the ancient Silk Road. Language plays an important role in serving the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Therefore, by means of bibliometrics analysis, the research tool, CiteSpace, was used to analyze the annual output, authors, keywords, institutes, and hotspots of 1430 papers related to the field of language studies in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative by CNKI database from 2014 to 2018. This paper adopts research methods of co-word analysis and co-word cluster analysis, and more specially, uses research yield analysis, cooperation diagrams analysis and strategic diagram analysis methods. The aim of this research is to sort out the relevant research comprehensively and systematically, outline the overall situation and development trend of these researches, summarize and analyze the hotspots and frontiers. The research shows that the overall trend of language studies in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative has rapid and linear growth. In recent years, the focus of research has been on personnel training, translation strategy, education reform, foreign language talents and so on.","PeriodicalId":352308,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Linguistics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126366775","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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