{"title":"The Dagbamba Damba Repertoire","authors":"Rashid Rashid, M. Abubakari","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v6n1p11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v6n1p11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116725561","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":"English for Occupational Purposes through Second Life: Promoting Interaction, And Professional Training","authors":"María José Naranjo","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v6n4p3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v6n4p3","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, technology plays a fundamental role in our lives and consequently in the field of education, as well. If the appearance of the Web 2.0 contributed to transform learners into more active users of their acquisition process, there are tools such as virtual worlds which enhance interaction and help to develop computer-mediated communication in queasy real environments. In this context, our aim is to present a study carried out with English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) students attending an online course run through the management platform Moodle and where final communicative tasks are developed in the virtual world (VW) of Second Life (SL). The suitability to use virtual environments for language learning and professional training is measured by the completion of a survey analysis with course participants.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133446167","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":"Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and Their Contribution to Turning the Teaching of Arabic Reading Comprehension into a Meaningful Process.","authors":"Rima Abu Jaber Baransi, Rawya Jarjoura Burbara","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V6N2P16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V6N2P16","url":null,"abstract":"This study discusses the incorporation of thinking strategies of high order in teaching in general and in the teaching of theoretical texts in particular. The main goal of the paper is to discuss the difficulties of teaching theoretical texts to students, but also present teachers with a tool kit when facing these difficulties. The present study lays the foundations for the teaching of a theoretical text, and suggests an efficient teaching method that will allow students to fully and thoroughly understand a text.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116199159","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":"Direct Speech Act in Communication between Saudi Arabian Family Members","authors":"Sawsan Alfaleh","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v6n1p12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v6n1p12","url":null,"abstract":"This research article aims to explore the direct speech act as used in Arabic language and in particular in the Saudi Arabian family context where Najdi dialect is used. The article analyses spoken conversations as data gained, and then transcribed, from Saudi family interactions in a series uploaded on YouTube. The analysis focuses on three areas: direct request speech act, the cultural impact of used forms and strategies, and the notion of face threatening in everyday Saudi family interactions. The study sheds light on one exemplary speech act, 'request'. The analysis focuses on three areas: direct request speech act, the cultural influence and the notion of face threatening. Results show tendency of Saudi family members to the use some Islamic forms in request (making and response/ decline or acceptance). Results also show that the use of religious forms such as Masha Allah and Insha’Allah could increase the pragmatic rejection of request by interactant(s) or have some mitigating role. Article is structures as follows: an introduction followed by theoretical literature related to the topic of study, and then a methodology precedes the analysis, findings and discussion. The article ends with a conclusion.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122150491","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":"Effects of Electronic-Book Reading on Adult English Learners’ Higher-Order Thinking and Self-Efficacy","authors":"M. Chiang","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v6n4p13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v6n4p13","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic reading has become an integral part of our daily life. Nowadays, we read more from our digital devices than print-based materials. However, most reading assignments inside the university classrooms remain print-based. Therefore, integrating electronic reading with the existing literacy instruction meets the changing needs of our adult English learners. The possibility that the younger generation growing up in a digital environment may lack the ability and confidence to read deeply concerns many educators. This mixed-method study aims to explore the effects of Kindlemediated reading on university students’ higher-order thinking and reading self-efficacy. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 45 first-year students taking their year-long required reading course. The analyses of the post-reading questions raised by the participants indicate that the Kindle group raised a higher number of higherorder thinking questions than did the hard-copy group. However, no significant difference was identified in reading self-efficacy between the two groups.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131116648","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":"Revisioning the Past through Translation","authors":"David Josemaría Gligorovski","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v7n2p5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v7n2p5","url":null,"abstract":"The emphasis of this paper is placed on the role language plays in the construction of reality. In this context, history and collective memory are conceived as two social constructs of language. The central argument is that a rearticulation of the past and a reconfiguration of the present can be carried out through translation. In this sense, translation is understood as a signification process, as a way of interaction between language and reality, as an act of searching for the voices that have been silenced in the official interpretations of history. To exemplify this, Perla, a testimony novel composed of rewritings of the official history, is analyzed from the perspective of critical historiography. The ultimate aim is to achieve a broadening and redefinition of our understanding of societal development and history through the lens of translation.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125327083","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":"Language Maintenance among Minority Languages with Special Reference to Leya Language of Chief Mukuni, Southern Province","authors":"Kavwaya Sunwell","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V6N2P10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V6N2P10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114182570","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":"Les langues turcques et quelques questions de l’histoire des Tchouvaches","authors":"Dr. Anton K. SALMIN","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v7n2p12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v7n2p12","url":null,"abstract":"The language also contains history. For analysis, it must be compared with related languages and languages of neighbouring tribes and peoples. The language can split into several descendant languages over time. This is due to violation of the unity of the society in which it operates. When differences begin to complicate mutual understanding between the members of society, then different but related languages appear. Change is an obligatory feature of the language, if only because a static system could not provide communication of the society in the changing world. Linguists (A.V. Dybo et al.) established the washing rate of 5 words from the Swadesh list over 1,000 years on a number of language groups. With such rate for 20,000 years, Swadesh list should wash out completely. It turns out there are no static languages that have existed for 20,000 years. The Turkic language is a superstrate language, and not a substrate in any way for the modern Chuvash language, that is, this process occurred (and continues to take place) not in Siberia, but in the Volga region.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115867192","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":"Focused Corrective Feedback and Negotiation of Meaning: Students’ Written Language Accuracy and Their Perception","authors":"Flora Flora","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v7n2p11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v7n2p11","url":null,"abstract":"This study is designed to investigate :1) students’ written language accuracy, 2) effectiveness of teacher’s indirect corrective feedback in enhancing students’ written language accuracy, 3) effectiveness of negotiation of meaning during direct peer corrective feedback , and 4) the students’ perception after the implementation of focused corrective feedback and negotiation of meaning. In enhancing students’ written language accuracy, indirect corrective feedback in the form of codes, and peer direct corrective feedback in the form of explanation were applied to 24 students of English Education Faculty (FKIP) of the University of Lampung who took Pre-intermediate writing class. The design was descriptive quantitative. The results demonstrate that ; (1) language accruracy on grammar is considered low but not on vocabulary and spelling, 2) indirect corrective feedback works well only if the students’ have prior linguistic ability, 3) direct corrective feedback works well because peer (s) did negotiation of meaning in forms of clarification , and 4) students have various response during the corrective feedback. The finding was discussed on the basis of relevant theories.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124223853","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 Syntax and Pragmatics of Referring Expressions in Gichuka: A Challenge to the Generative Grammar’s Logical Form in Assigning Meaning to Sentences","authors":"S. M. Ndwiga","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v6n2p18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v6n2p18","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the structure and assignment of truth conditional meaning of sentences containing referring (R—) expressions in Gichuka, a Bantu language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ameru people living on the North Eastern slopes of Mount Kenya. The study finds that the assignment of truth conditional meaning to sentences with R—expressions is not a purely syntactic matter but one that involves the interplay of syntax and pragmatics. It argues that the generative grammar’s proposal that logical forms constrain all aspects of the truth conditional meaning in sentences is inadequate because it fails to account for pragmatic processes such as saturation and enrichment that derive propositional forms which bear truth conditions in sentences containing R―expressions. It makes a case for the thesis that contextual features play a significant role in assigning truth conditional meaning to sentences containing R—expressions, as expounded in the relevance theory.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116647584","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}