Teacher talk is an indispensible part of language teaching in an EFL context which is importance and usefulness mainly consists in its management with respect to the context in which it is employed. The current study explores language teacher…
The relationship between the obsessed one and the object of obsession is not based on caring. It is based on power, a show of brutishness, a game of ego. The possession needs to be absolute, to the point of excluding everyone else, and the obsessed…
The world of Tom Sawyer--Mark Twain's remembered and reinvented world of childhood--seems to be piquant and pleasant mainly because it is seen in a bright world set off by the shadowy terrors of danger, death and conformity. Young Tom--and indirectly…
Mark Twain, through his modern "Yankee," reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he apparently wants to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in…
Alan Paton, in Cry, the Beloved Country, heightens sensitivities throughout the world to the unrelenting, legalized racial discrimination in South Africa. Not onlydoes he dramatically portray the exploitation of native black people in a country where…
As an academic genre, an abstract is an obligatory step that researchers across disciplines and languages should write to join their discourse community. Therefore, genre analysts have broadly employed move analysis in identifying the rhetorical…
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has become an expanding discipline within universities worldwide. Abundant research has been devoted to the study of EAP in various academic settings, and yet no studies have been conducted to investigate the…
This presentation reports the results of a small pilot study that tests the second language acquisition (SLA) of features associated with a functional category: the accusative clitic in accusative clitic doubling constructions, as in (1). The second…
This presentation accounts for the syntax of the prenominal determiner-like free morpheme cel in Romanian, which introduces definite DPs. Importantly, the prototypical definite article in Romanian is a suffix that attaches to prenominal adjectives…
The purpose of this study is to analyze the pedagogical role of homework and its impact on Saudi student academic performance achievement. In order to demonstrate the pedagogical importance and its relevance to learning I intend to show, using a…
