ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2020-0011

Kaja Mandić, Izabela Dankić

{"title":"Collocations of high frequency words in nursing research articles and The Academic Collocation List: Similarities and differences","authors":"Kaja Mandić, Izabela Dankić","doi":"10.2478/exell-2020-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The main objective of this corpus-based study is to research the most frequent two-word collocations in the corpus of nursing scientific articles and compare this newly assembled list of nursing collocations with the Academic Collocation List (ACL). The nursing scientific articles corpus (NSAC) used in this study comprises 1,119,441 words from 262 articles of 10 high-quality journals from the Medical Library Association list which nursing students can freely access. The focus is on noun-noun and noun-adjective collocations. The selected articles were converted into txt files using the ABBYY Fine Reader. WordSmith Tools 7.0 and TermeX were used for noun and collocation extraction. The newly assembled Nursing Collocation List (NCL) and the ACL were compared using Microsoft Excel 2016. A total of 488 collocations were identified in the NSAC and the NCL contains 234 (47.9%) noun + noun and 254 (52.1%) adjective + noun collocation combinations. The most frequent two-word collocation is health care and it appeared 618 times in the NSAC. The ACL (2,469) and the NCL (488) share 123 two-word collocations. Although there are some correspondences between collocations in the two corpora, key nursing collocations with notably higher frequencies are identified in the NSAC (365). Despite the fact that the ACL is the most extensive collocation list across different academic fields and it certainly plays an important role in teaching English as a foreign language, this study suggests that it does not provide key nursing collocations for improvement of nursing collocation competence.","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86097140","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}

引用次数: 1

Corpus based study of verbs explain and clarify as an example of assistance in pedagogical settings 以语料库为基础的动词解释和澄清的研究，作为辅助教学设置的一个例子

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2021-0003

Maja Séguin

引用次数: 0

Rhetorical questions as aggressive, friendly or sarcastic/ironical questions with imposed answers 反问句是指带有强加答案的具有攻击性、友好性或讽刺性的问题

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2020-0014

Džemal Špago

{"title":"Rhetorical questions as aggressive, friendly or sarcastic/ironical questions with imposed answers","authors":"Džemal Špago","doi":"10.2478/exell-2020-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rhetorical questions (RQs), as a cross-breed of questions and statements, represent an effective tool in putting forward the Speaker’s ideas, as well as influencing the ideas and opinions of other people. Because of their communicative effectiveness and multifunctionality, they are frequently used in different contexts and for different purposes, and, as such, they represent an interesting topic for further research. The aim of this paper is threefold: (i) to explore the nature of the implied answer to RQs, (ii) to offer a classification of RQs based on the Speaker’s communication style, and (iii) to examine whether (or to what extent) the Speaker-Addressee relationship (peer-to-peer, superior-to-inferior, inferior-to-superior) influences the selection and frequency of use of different types of RQs. Using Stalnaker’s (2002) model of Common Ground and Caponigro and Sprouse’s (2007) concepts of Speaker’s and Addressee’s Beliefs, the author redefines the nature of the answers implied by RQs, claiming that they are imposed on the Addressee rather than mutually recognized as obvious. Based on the model of communication styles as defined by Yuan et al. (2018), RQs are classified into aggressive, friendly and sarcastic/ironical questions with imposed answers. The analysis of the corpus, which consisted of 275 RQs taken from ten American movie scripts, showed that friendly RQs are more common than the other two types, and that, in instances where one of the interlocutors is in a superior position, superior-to-inferior RQs are by far more common than vice versa. The finding that RQs asked by inferiors make up less than a third of RQs occurring between interlocutors with different social standing is in line with the view that answers to RQs are imposed on Addressees.","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80171029","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}

引用次数: 2

Emergency online learning during the first Covid-19 period: students’ perspectives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Poland and Turkey 2019冠状病毒病疫情期间的紧急在线学习:来自波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那、北马其顿、波兰和土耳其学生的观点

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2021-0002

Lina Miloshevska, Elżbieta Gajek, Nihada Delibegović Džanić, Çiler Hatipoğlu

引用次数: 4

Differences in EFL learners’ burnout levels and receptive language skills with regard to the mindfulness-based instruction 正念教学法中外语学习者倦怠水平与接受性语言技能的差异

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2021-0004

H. Moghadam, A. Ghanizadeh, B. Ghonsooly

引用次数: 4

Hedging functions of extraposed that-clauses in English and declarative subject da-clauses in Croatian academic writing 英语外置that-从句和克罗地亚语学术写作中陈述性主语da-从句的限制语功能

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2021-0001

Mirna Varga

引用次数: 0

English goes digital: Framing pre-service teachers’ perceptions of a learning management system in their EFL studies 英语走向数字化:构建职前教师在英语学习中对学习管理系统的看法

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2020-0013

Oleksandr (Alexander) Kapranov

引用次数: 6

Computer assisted language learning in English language classrooms in Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那英语教室的计算机辅助语言学习

ExELL Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2020-0012

Nihada Delibegović Džanić, Amila Hasanspahić

{"title":"Computer assisted language learning in English language classrooms in Bosnia and Herzegovina","authors":"Nihada Delibegović Džanić, Amila Hasanspahić","doi":"10.2478/exell-2020-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper examines the application of computer assisted language learning (CALL) in English language classes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research was designed as an empirical examination of the attitudes of teachers and students on the successful application of computer assisted language learning in English language classrooms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lack of motivation is one the problems that most teachers are faced with. There are many causes of poor motivation, but one of them is certainly the unattractiveness and dullness of traditional methods, teaching materials and resources. However, many authors with educational experience point out that the use of information technology can positively influence students’ motivation and encourage them to work actively. While adults, as digital immigrants, might not use modern information technology excessively, children and teens are true digital natives, who have grown up with the latest technologies and use them with great pleasure in all aspects of their lives adapting them to their needs (Prensky, 2001). The results obtained in this research are an indicator of the current attitude of teachers and students towards these issues, but they also highlight some important necessary reforms in the field of teacher education.","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88113174","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}

引用次数: 3

The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek 英语、俄语、塔吉克语和乌兹别克语中白色一词的多义性

ExELL Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2020-0009

Daler Zayniev

{"title":"The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek","authors":"Daler Zayniev","doi":"10.2478/exell-2020-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Colour is one of the central categories of both a conceptual and a linguistic world of image, correlated with an axiological and an esthetic assessment, a semiotic and value world of image of a given national culture, which allows us to talk about colour preferences, ethnic colour mentality, colour gaps and colour universals, that is, about the colour world of image. In addition, colours have senses specific to particular fields, from physics over printing to senses used in everyday life. In the present article, I carry out an analysis of the colour term white in English, and its counterparts in Russian, Tajik and Uzbek from the lexicological and lexicographical point of view, starting with a semasiological perspective, following Steinvall’s (2002: 56) methodology. The conceptual space of the colour term white in lexicographic work tends to be kept compact rather than articulated in great detail, just like in the case of other types of colours, i.e. in an attempt to minimize polysemy, its senses are typically lumped, rather than split. The main aims were to investigate the differences in the representation of adjectives denoting white colour across languages and to compare monolingual and bilingual dictionaries with respect how they structure their meanings, as well as collocations and idiomatic expressions (often based on metaphors and metonymies). A number of field-like clusters of concepts related to the colour terms for white were established. Based on these findings, I proceed to make some suggestions for the improvement of the approach to colour terms for white and other colours in general use and pedagogical dictionaries.","PeriodicalId":37072,"journal":{"name":"ExELL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78241753","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}

引用次数: 0

Figuration, constructions and English phrasal verbs: The instances of come up 定形、结构和英语动词短语:come up的实例

ExELL Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/exell-2020-0008

Efthymia M. Tsaroucha

引用次数: 0

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