{"title":"Conceptual Mapping Importance in EFL learning of Arabic Speaking University Students","authors":"Seham Elashhab","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V6N2P14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V6N2P14","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to investigate the construct of concept maps as well as the relationship between conceptual maps and foreign language (FL) Arabic speaking learners. It also aims at connecting the previous research to the classroom implementation and FL students’ benefits when using this tool to improve their language learning. The researcher demonstrates some examples of conceptual maps from first year students at Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, this paper presents an overview of the main trends of thought that have led to the interest in concept mapping as an instructional and learning tool to facilitate the development of Arabic speaking learners’ reading, critical thinking, understanding, and remembering the new language words, ideas and facts.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"136 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":"124269189","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":"Students’ Perceptions towards M-Learning Activities within the Algerian Context","authors":"Imane Tiahi","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v7n2p4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v7n2p4","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to explore students’ engagement and interaction with m-learning activities in EFL(English as a foreign language) within the Algerian context at Teaching Training Institute. Three mobile applications were used to achieve the aim, these are: Padlet, Kahoot, and Sli.do. This research project isa qualitative case study that engages 10 undergraduate students (18-20 years) who took part in eight sessions (two sessions held in each week). The findings were collected through reflective journals. The findings have fundamental implications for EFL teachers and institutional leaders who aim to provide an opportunity for students to engage with the English context. The results were thematically analysed. It was evident that students provided positive attitudes towards m-learning activities. It is not only motivating but also engaging in learning processes; the m-learning apps were well received and thus research can be taken further to examine their possible impact within the Algerian context .","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":"121604669","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":"Gender Portrayal in Ekegusii Proverbs","authors":"Zipporah K Otiso","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v6n2p11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v6n2p11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the depiction of men and women in proverbs in Ekegusii, a Bantu language spoken in the western part of Kenya. The analyzed proverbs show the perceptions held by the society about males and females. There are proverbs that show what is considered to be the appropriate character for males and the value of males. Conversely, there are proverbs that show the character/ nature of females and the value of females. In addition, there are proverbs that make reference to males and females when giving advice and warnings. Besides this symmetrical representation, there are proverbs that make reference to both genders (in the same proverb) with the aim of underscoring gender differences, as there are those proverbs that make reference to both genders (in the same proverb) but with the aim of downplaying the gender differences. While it may generally appear that women are represented negatively in some proverbs, the women can use the negativity in those proverbs to their advantage. That is, the proverbs which would have been a tool of silencing and subjugating the women can instead serve as a form of emancipation for them.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"49 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":"117033192","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":"How to Assess the MA Saudi Students in Journalistic Translation?","authors":"Adel Salem Bahameed","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V7N4P12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V7N4P12","url":null,"abstract":"Journalistic texts are important for translators to know how to handle because journalism, press, and media are essential fields where translators can work after graduation. This paper intends to illuminate the way for translation trainers concerning how the assessment process is supposed to be. It draws the attention to the usefulness of implementing Hurtado's approach of assessment on 18 male and female MA translation trainees at the Faculty of Languages and Translation at King Khalid University in KSA. This approach was applied to the correction of the final examination which includes diverse journalistic texts to be translated in both directions between Arabic and English. This is an empirical study and the findings are that linguistic competence of the translators was an essential factor and Hurtado's approach is found to be invalid for assessing the journalistic translations.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"64 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":"134424117","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":"On the Triune God in Letters","authors":"MilicaLukić","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V7N4P11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V7N4P11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"40 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":"123276644","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":"Causative Constructions in Vietnamese: From a typological Perspective","authors":"Nguyễn Hồng Cổn","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v7n2p6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v7n2p6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"2016 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":"121573197","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":"Some Aspects of Technology in Teaching English to English Language Learners","authors":"Owen G. Mordaunt, Matthew McGuire","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V6N1P2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V6N1P2","url":null,"abstract":"The New Literacy Studies, sometimes called NLS, refers to a body of work that started in the 1980s and applies to how technology and literacy impact our lives, identities and social affiliations. NLS developed from linguistics, history, anthropology, rhetoric and composition studies, cultural psychology, education, and other fields of study. In this paper, specific reference is made to technology use in a 1300-level English class for Language Learners in the Intensive Language Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The paper also makes a few comments about the importance of technology in teaching English in contexts other than USA classroom.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"5 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":"127717243","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":"L1 thinking-for-Speaking Habits are Difficult to Change in L2: Evidence from the Semantic Domain of Motion","authors":"Imed Louhichi","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V6N1P6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V6N1P6","url":null,"abstract":"Research into how motion events are expressed in different languages lent support to predictions (a) and (b) (e.g., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2004;Cifuentez-Férez&Gentner, 2006;Slobin, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Kopecka, &Majid, 2014;Feist, 2015; Özçalişkan, 2015). However, research into the validity of prediction (c) has so far delivered mixed results. As such, while some limit L1 influence to beginner and intermediate levels (e.g., Cadierno& Ruiz, 2004; Cadierno, 2010; Song et al., 2016), others have extended this influence to advanced levels as well (e.g., Stam, 2010; Alonso, 2011; Larrañaga, Treffers-Dallers, Tidball, & Ortega, 2011).","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":"131345048","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 Dynamics between Unified Basque & Dialects in the Northern Basque Country: A Survey Based on Perceptual Dialectology – Second part","authors":"Jean-Baptiste Coyos","doi":"10.30845/ijll.v7n1p13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/ijll.v7n1p13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"5 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133037972","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 Speaking Rate and Sonority on Voicing Duration in Russian Obstruents","authors":"Vladimir Kulikov","doi":"10.30845/IJLL.V6N1P5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30845/IJLL.V6N1P5","url":null,"abstract":"Research has found that temporal cues to obstruent voicing in aspirating languages, e.g. VOT or closure voicing, are affected by context, e.g. speaking rate or phonetic environment. However, little is known about effects of phonetic context on acoustical properties of word-medial obstruents in true voice languages. The present study investigates changes in duration of glottal pulses in Russian word-medial obstruents. The data come from 14 Russian speakers, who pronounced phrases with 2165 voiced and voiceless obstruents before segments with low and high sonority in the slow and fast speaking rate conditions. The findings provide empirical evidence that duration of glottal pulsing in voiced obstruents increases in response to sonority of adjacent segment and at slow speaking rate. The findings reveal that the maximum increase (57 ms) was found in prevocalic position at slow rate, suggesting sonority and speaking rate may feed one another to enhance glottal pulsing in voiced obstruents.","PeriodicalId":409958,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language & Linguistics","volume":"20 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":"130671289","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}