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{"title":"Learners’ Perception of EFL Teachers' Behavior and Knowledge","authors":"Soheil Mahmoudi","doi":"10.11648/J.ELLC.20190401.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.ELLC.20190401.13","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the importance that students accord to behavior and knowledge of teachers. A five-point Likert scale questionnaire with 28 items, fourteen of them, i.e., the odd ones, representing knowledge, and the other fourteen, i.e., the even ones, representing the behavior of teachers, was designed. The values of responses to each question ranged from 1 to 5. One represented the least important and five represented the most important. Copies of the questionnaire were distributed among 26 B1 (pre-intermediate level) prep school students (17 females and 9 males) who had already spent five months with six different teachers at English prep-school at Uskudar University in Istanbul, Turkey. The data were collected in the second week of the third module in the second semester in 2017-2018 academic year. The collected data were then fed to SPSS. A Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test revealed that there was not a significant difference between the importance of knowledge and behavior of teachers from the points of view of the students who attended the study. A Chi-square test also indicated that gender does not play a significant role in assigning importance to teachers’ behavior or knowledge by students. The findings of this study could be revealing to teachers.","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86864310","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":"A Descriptive and Historical Analysis of Sanga Traditional Dance of the Asantes","authors":"Ronit Akomeah, E. Asante, N. Arthur","doi":"10.11648/J.ELLC.20190401.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.ELLC.20190401.12","url":null,"abstract":"Asante traditional dances bear and portray some aspects of Asante culture; albeit, less number of these traditional dances are much performed and mostly known within Asante and other places in Ghana and overseas. The internet; being a suggestive abode of information for educational, preservation and other purposes mostly host Adowa , Kete and Fͻntͻmfrͻm amongst the vast number of Asante traditional dances. Sanga is less performed and quite uncommon as it had been orally passed down as a means of preservation. Most people have neglected Sanga and there is basically less knowledge on the dance making it currently recede. This study therefore investigates the problem to understand the embedded meanings behind Sanga dance and to also advance the need and means for the preservation of Sanga traditional dance. In using the qualitative research method, interviews and observation were the main forms of data collection instruments used for the study. Data were collected from the Head of Performing Arts and the Ammamerɛso Agofomma of the Centre for National Culture, Kumasi and the then Ɛntrɛpakuo and the head teacher of the R/C JHS, Atwima Nerebehi . Most respondents are indigenes of the Ashanti Region and had in-depth knowledge on Sanga . A sample size of 16 was selected through purposive and snowball sampling. The results of the study proved that Sanga dance forms part of Asante culture and is mostly embedded in its related cultural elements; appropriate means to accurately document such receding traditional dances are in both photography and video formats. It was recommended that the chiefs and elders of various ethnic groups in Ghana should include receding Ghanaian traditional dances to public gatherings; and bridge the gap of preserving traditional dances by using documentary videos.","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78376305","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":"A Critical Study of Arab Males and Females Interactional Styles in Formal Face- to- Face Conversations When Using English as a Second Language","authors":"Hussain Al-Ali, K. Mann","doi":"10.11648/J.ELLC.20190401.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.ELLC.20190401.11","url":null,"abstract":"It is obvious that the differences between Arab males and females interactional styles in formal face-to-face conversations when using English as a second language is interesting and uneasy task at the same time. In the light of the current research paper findings, the linguistic styles of males and females are quite different in regard with the conversation function itself, feedback of the conversation, the dominant gender in the whole conversation, some phonological variations and so on. Females prefer avoiding direct disagreement and maintaining the social rapport with other opposite gender. Females also depend on more easy ways or strategies to get the other speakers engaged in the dialogue as possible. Males, regardless of their status and educational level, seem less professional speakers and less cooperative than females seem. The process of communication among males and females; particularly, in the Arab word is complex since it is ruled by social and religious norms. But this process doesn't indicate that understanding their interactional styles in formal face-to-face conversations in a second language is not possible despite the small number of research papers conducted in such a field. However, subcultures play a basic role in distinguishing between males and females in conversation; meaning that if one gender comprehends other's subcultures, he or she will definitely be able to communicate in a much better way. The current research paper interestingly indicates that males are less fusty than females in dialogues as the last ones actually employ more strategies of politeness than males do. The researcher applied a descriptive method which is considered the most appropriate way for this current research paper; it is the method that describes the phenomena or the real situation as it is available in reality. However, more research papers are preferred to be conducted to highlight the differences between Arab males and females' interactional styles in; specially, formal face-to-face conversations in regards with prosodic characteristics just like pitch and intonation since such types of papers are rare in the Arab world.","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81147162","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 Survivance in the Literature of the First Nations in Canada","authors":"C. Premat","doi":"10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.06","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the way the writers of the First Nations in Canada deal with the issue of survivance which implies a collective resilience. It is based upon a comparison between the first novel of Naomi Fontaine, Kuessipan (2011) and the poetry of Rita Mestokosho collected in How I see Life, Grandmother, Eshi Uapataman Nukum, Comment je perçois la vie, grand-mère (2011). Both writers belong to a tradition of littérature autochtone in Québec that has become more and more visible since the 1980s. If both writers share the paradigm of decoloniality, their aesthetics remains classical with the use of a minimalist style to express the beauty of the Innu way of life.","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72878309","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 ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Al-Tayyib Salih's Season of Migration to the North: Postcolonial Study","authors":"Redwan Gabr El-Sobky","doi":"10.11648/j.ellc.20190404.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ellc.20190404.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87033716","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":"Songs of Life and Death in Walker Percy’s Lancelot (1977)","authors":"A. Ropa","doi":"10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85725864","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":"Perception of EFL Among Stalk Holders: Four Selected Government Primary Schools of Wolaita and Dawro Zone in Focus, SNNPR, South West Ethiopia","authors":"Mesfin Mekuria Dangore","doi":"10.11648/j.ellc.20190401.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ellc.20190401.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81286529","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":"‘Come Roam With Me Columbia’s Forests’: Representations of the Forest in Alexander Wilson’s The Foresters","authors":"Laurence Machet","doi":"10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79096051","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":"Use of Tense-Aspect Forms in Cordis Project Reports","authors":"Jana Kuzmina","doi":"10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22364/BJELLC.09.2019.04","url":null,"abstract":"For several recent decades the Council of Europe and various European authorities have been encouraging various European universities and other institutions to unite research activities resulting in the creation of partnerships with a conventialised genre network of calls for projects, guidelines for proposals and databases of project documentation. Along with Latvia acting in political, economic and social arenas of the European Union, it has also been actively involved in research consortia as coordinator and participant, therefore, setting new objectives for communicative competence development of scholars and project managers in order to reflect the discursive practices. In view of this, the present cross-sectional empirical investigation is intended to explore the written genre of Community Research and Development Informa tion Service (CORDIS) periodic (status) and closure (results in brief) pro ject reports as fundamental documents to account for research results in various eco no mi cally and socially significant spheres. The selected research metho do logy is a descriptive case study, involving genre and discourse analysis. The obtained results claim that reports have a rigid generic macro-structure. It explains the use of the selected tense-aspect forms to express the communi cative aim in both types of reports; however, periodic reports demonstrate higher variation due to the involvement of a different discourse community. The signi ficance of the study lies in the scarcity of previous research on this genre and wide application of research findings to support the discourse community of researchers.","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76947026","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":"An Investigation into Factors that Affect Students’ Writing Skills: The Case of Sodo Secondary School","authors":"Ayele Eyob Kenta","doi":"10.11648/j.ellc.20190402.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ellc.20190402.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55896,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of English Language Literature and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84971710","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}