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Refugee Policies and Narratives in the Globalised Era International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Dolores Herrero
One of the effects of globalisation has been population mobility as a result of famine, climate warming and war conflicts, among other things. This flow of refugees, however, is often seen as a menace to the rule of law and human rights concomitant with the Western lifestyle. Refugees are no longer regarded as human beings and victims, but rather as danger, even as potential terrorists, which has led
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Intercultural Teaching in the EFL Classroom International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Paweł Sobkowiak
The qualitative research reported in this article investigated whether and to what extent students’ intercultural competence is developed in the English language classroom at the secondary education level in Poland. In interviews teachers demonstrated their positive attitudes toward intercultural teaching and decent knowledge of the issue. However, the teachers’ narratives uncovered that they assigned
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Aoristic Drift and Narrative Perfect in Early Modern English International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Vladimir Bondar
In the current study, data from A Corpus of English Dialogues (1560-1760) are used to consider contexts with the have-perfect and temporal adverbs of the definite past time such as yesterday, last night, ago. Data analysis is conducted within the framework of a usage-based approach, which gives evidence to the hypothesis that in Early Modern English the have-perfect in spoken register was gradually
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Are EFL Writers Motivated or Demotivated by Model Texts and Task Repetition? Evidence from Young Collaborative Writers International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola,Izaskun Villarreal
Studies on multi-stage writing tasks with adults and children have shown that model texts and task repetition aid language acquisition, especially when learners work in collaboration. However, these studies have not included measures of task motivation, which is vital in young learners (YLs) and could help develop a more comprehensive understanding of task effectiveness. The present study analyses
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Myth, Form and Intertextuality in Edwin Muir International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Gabriel Insausti
Edwin Muir has often embarrassed critics as a rara avis. He was overlooked by anthologists before 1950 and, although subsequent anthologies never failed to include him, he was still hard to place for many readers. Labelled as a “traditionalist” or a “craftsman”, his later work proves however that Muir was much more. Understanding his use of myth, form and intertextuality enables us to rethink the significance
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Measuring Productive Derivational Knowledge of the Most Frequent Words International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Alireza Barouni Ebrahimi
Derivational knowledge is associated with writing and speaking skills. These skills are essential for EFL students who express themselves in oral presentations or written assignments. Therefore, diagnostic measurement of productive derivational knowledge is of vital importance, especially in regard to the most frequent 1,000 word families that cover 81% and 85% of written and spoken text. This study
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Afroperipheral indigeneity in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Vicent Cucarella-Ramón
Black Canadian writer Wayde Compton’s short story collection The Outer Harbour (2015) is located in the Afroperiphery of British Columbia which stands as a ‘contact zone’ that enables the alliances between Black and Indigenous peoples and also establishes a fecund ground of possibilities to emphasize the way in which cross-ethnic coalitions and representations reconsider imperial encounters previously
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Selected Determinants of Pronunciation Anxiety International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz,Jang Ho Lee
Empirical research shows that language anxiety has a detrimental effect on foreign language learning and its use. Several studies suggest that anxiety related to mastering and using foreign languages is skill-specific. This study examined pronunciation anxiety and attempted to determine its significant correlates. The included factors ranged from learning experiences with native-speaking teachers,
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Resisting Borders: Transnational Cartographies in US Latinx Studies International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Macarena García-Avello
This article examines the evolution of the borderlands as an organizing trope by focusing on how the transcendence beyond cultural nationalist perspectives traces the shift from Chicano/a to Latinx discourses. In order to address this issue, I will analyse two twenty-first-century Latinx texts that delve into the intricate ways in which transnational forces collide with economic, cultural and political
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Accommodating the Syllabus to Visually Impaired Students in the English Language Classroom International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Ana-Isabel Martínez-Hernández,Begoña Bellés-Fortuño
The inclusion of students with disabilities in the education system results in content or assessment accommodations to suit the students’ special needs and to ensure they have acquired the objectives listed in the curriculum. In this paper, we aim at proposing different ways to accommodate a university English language test to a partially blind student who used text-to-speech tools (TTS) in order to
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Unintentional Reverse Transfer from L2 (English) to L1 (Spanish) in Tertiary Levels International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Gloria Luque Agulló
This study attempts to reveal whether there is unintentional reverse transfer L2→L1 (English-Spanish) in the oral L1 production of university learners in formal contexts. The languages used by learners influence each other, and this transfer may occur from the first to the second language (direct transfer), or from the second to the first (reverse transfer), the focus of this work. Thus, an exploratory
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Use of Communicative Strategies in L2 Learning International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-30 José María Valverde Zambrana
Our objective is to describe the importance of the learning strategies, especially those of communicative type, in the learning of the second language. We made a comparative study of the use of L2 learning strategies by Spanish students at university and by students from international mobilities coming from the Erasmus+ programme and from The Republic of South Korea. In our study we also found that
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Analysis of Class-as-Race and Gender Ideology in the US Young Adult Sports Novel Racing Savannah (2013) International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Rocío Riestra-Camacho
Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally’s Racing Savannah (2013), this paper acknowledges how this novel is a revitalization and a challenge
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Verbal Evidence of Task-related Strategies in EFL International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Raúl Azpilicueta-Martínez
The benefits of task-based interaction in Second Language Learning (SLL) have been made increasingly evident in the literature. However, unlike adult studies, only recently has interaction research on EFL children grown in popularity. Most children-based research has focused primarily on Negotiation of Meaning, while other age-related aspects, including a more comprehensive analysis of how adults and
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Shakespeare and Mercy at the Vatican, 2016 International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Marta Cerezo Moreno
This article explores a central chapter in the history of the Catholic reception of Shakespeare’s work during the contemporary age: the Catholic readings in 2016 of Shakespeare’s dramatic presentation of mercy in the context of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the Holy Year of Mercy. This study directs its focus first to Catholic public manifestations on mercy −such
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Theresa May’s Representation of Reality in her Brexit Speeches International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Rosana Dolón Herrero
This study analyses Theresa May’s three seminal Brexit speeches. These describe the kind of desirable post-Brexit EU-UK relationship that she envisioned, and together constitute a corpus of 18,532 words. The speeches can be considered as landmarks on a timeline that was initially meant to lead to the delivery of Brexit. It is hypothesized that there may be meaningful differences between the speeches
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Standardization Process in its Final Stages International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Merja Kytö,Terry Walker
This study concerns the development of the determiners mine/my and thine/thy in the Early Modern English period. The -n forms had essentially been ousted before words starting with consonants over the Middle English period, and over the subsequent centuries, these forms also fell into disuse before words starting with initial vowels and h. While the rise of the n-less variants has been the object of
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Register Variation in Word-formation Processes International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Paula Rodríguez-Puente
This paper traces the development of two roughly synonymous nominalizing suffixes during the Early Modern English period, the Romance -ity and the native -ness. The aim is to assess whether these suffixes were favored in particular registers or followed similar paths of development, and to ascertain whether the ongoing processes of standardization and vernacularization may have affected their diachronic
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Early Modern Medicine in Manuscript and Print International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Jukka Tyrkkö
The standardisation process of English spelling largely came to its conclusion during the Early Modern period. While the progress of standardisation has been studied in both printed and manuscript texts, few studies have looked at these processes side by side, especially focusing on the same genre of writing and by using corpora that are sufficiently large for quantitative comparison. Using two Early
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On Early and Late Modern English Non-native Suffix -oon International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Laura Wright
This paper is about identifying a nuance of social meaning which, I demonstrate, was conveyed in the Early and Late Modern period by the suffix -oon. The history of non-native suffix -oon is presented by means of assembling non-native suffix -oon vocabulary in date order and sorting according to etymology. It turns out that standard non- native -oon words (which are few) tended to stabilise early and
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Shaping the Other in the Standardization of English International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Javier Ruano-García
This paper explores the other side of standardization by looking at one of the early modern regional varieties of English that remained outside the “consensus dialect” (Wright, 2000: 6). Drawing on Agha’s (2003) framework of enregisterment, I examine a selection of literary representations of the ‘northern’ dialect that are now included in The Salamanca Corpus (García-Bermejo Giner et al., 2011–),
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Supralocalisation Processes in Early Modern English Urban Vernaculars International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Moragh Gordon,Tino Oudesluijs,Anita Auer
This article contributes to existing studies that are concerned with standardisation and supralocalisation processes in the development of written English during the Early Modern English period. By focussing on and comparing civic records and letter data from important regional urban centres, notably Bristol, Coventry and York, from the period 1500–1700, this study provides new insight into the gradual
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Closeness and distance through the agentive authorial voice International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Francisca Suau-Jiménez
Credibility is a function associated with promotional genres and persuasion, and a powerful marketing concept (Eisend, 2006; Ming, 2006) which provides trustworthiness about the quality of products or services offered by hotels (Suau-Jiménez, 2012a, 2019). It is partly attained through the hotel’s self-mentioning in websites. When this self-mentioning is agentive with action verbs, the main instantiation
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(Im)perfect celebrations by intergenerational hostesses International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Francisco José Cortés Vieco
Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf nourished a peculiar stream of parallel foreignness and kinship with each other as coetaneous writers. This article explores the likenesses and dialogues between Mansfield’s story “The Garden Party” and Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway to detect and depict how bourgeois women, like Laura Sheridan and Clarissa Dalloway, albeit from two different generations, are indoctrinated
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Further remarks on the deflexion and grammaticalization of the Old English past participle with habban International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Javier Martin Arista
This article deals with the transitive construction involving habban and the past participle in Old English, and focuses on the loss of the adjectival segment of the participial inflection. The analysis is based on data retrieved from the York–Toronto–Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose. Inflectional morphology and constituent order, including the relative and the absolute position of the past
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What did Joseph Wright mean by meaning International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Manfred Markus
EDD Online, the online version of Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary, was completed by a project team at the University of Innsbruck in 2019. The sophisticated search-engine of the new interface 3.0 reveals the multi-faceted role of semantics in dialect words. Its complexity is due to both the fuzziness of lexical forms and the ambiguity of their meanings. This paper, beyond the theory-biased
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Developing multimodal communicative competence in emerging academic and professional genres International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Noelia Ruiz-Madrid, Julia Valeiras-Jurado
In this paper, we propose a pedagogical approach for teaching and learning multimodal literacy, specifically, the application of multimodal discourse analysis for genre awareness. The mastery of specific oral genres is seen as desirable to help students become competent professionals. This is the case of Product Pitches (PPs) in the business field and Research Pitches (RPs) in the academic field. The
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Collaborative teaching and learning of interactive multimodal spoken academic genres for doctoral students International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez, Mercedes Querol-Julián
The last teaching-learning stage in the education system is the doctoral programmes, which turn graduatestudents into researchers. This evolution involves writing a dissertation, but also being able to discuss research.However, training on spoken genres has not received much attention, and the interest has been mainly onmonologic prepared speeches. This paper focuses on a genre of interactive speech
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Ambivalent texts, the borderline, and the sense of nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Michael Templeton
Taking Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” as emblematic of a text historically enjoyed by both children and adults, this article seeks to place the text in the area of what Kristeva defines as the borderline of language and subjectivity in order to theorize a site by which ambivalent texts emerge as such. The fact that children’s literature remains largely trapped in the literary didactic split in which these
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‘Oh, there are so many things I want to write’ International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Carmen García Navarro
This paper explores the narrative process identified in the Whitehorn Letters, written by Doris Lessing from 1944 to 1949, as historical documents that form a single, coherent whole. Their significance is assessed by means of an epistemological reflection that sheds light on the path by which the young Lessing established her identity as an author (Bieder, 1993). In the letter-writing process, Lessing
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Syntactic ambiguity of (complex) nominal groups in technical English International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-30 Mirjana Borucinsky, Jana Kegalj
Complex nominal groups are common in technical English (i.e. English for Specific Purposes, ESP) as they allow lexical items to be tightly packed into a clause. This leads to increased lexical density and syntactic ambiguity. In this paper we analyze (complex) nominal groups in technical English, assuming that it is not only the context and extralinguistic knowledge (i.e. shared technical background
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“Being then nothing”: Physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Jorge Sacido Romero
This article explores the prominence of the body in Janice Galloway’s short fiction. Drawing mainly on Kristeva’s notions of the semiotic and the abject, the argument initially establishes the central place of physicality in Galloway’s poetics. Her creative project is inspired by a desire to transmit in writing the experience of being alive, of how being is intrinsically fragile, inexorably bound to
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Transhumanism, transmedia and the Serial podcast: Redefining storytelling in times of enhancement International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Sonia Baelo-Allué
The digital age has facilitated the creation of fluid, open stories that are subject to change as they unfold across different media platforms, each contributing to the story as a whole. Transmedia storytelling is also linked to transhumanism, a philosophy based on the idea that human limitations can be overcome through reason, science and technology to finally free us from the limitations of our bodies
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Heiddegerian enframing, nihilism & affectlessness in J.G. Ballard’s Crash: International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Carlos Sánchez Fernández
J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash (1973) allows a reading in the terms of Heidegger’s concept of Ge-stell or enframing, according to which in modernity everything, humans included, is seen as a mere means to often questionable ends. Prompted by violent sexual fantasies and an unleashed death drive, its main characters, a wild bunch of symphorophiliac drivers, live a life of existential nihilism, treating
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Jemima’s wrongs: Reading the female body in Mary Wollstonecraft’s prostitute biography International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Miriam Borham-Puyal
espanolLa biografia de la prostituta, un genero muy popular en el siglo XVIII, presentaba la vida de las cortesanas para un publico avido de las tales historias. Estas sacaban partido del cuerpo de la prostituta, al exponer su atractivo y degradacion, y al dirigir su censura bien hacia la mujer caida, bien hacia la sociedad que cruelmente la condenaba. Al mismo tiempo, revelaban las complejas realidades
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“They don’t have a name for what he is”: The strategic de-characterization of Hannibal Lecter International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Enrique Cámara-Arenas
This essay challenges the myth of Hannibal Lecter, in Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, as an enigmatic and unclassifiable character. Lecter’s enigma is generated through a largely unexplored process of de-characterization, i.e. by recurrently presenting him through the speech of other characters who describe him as unknowable. After considering Lecter’s case against the background of well-known literary
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Revisiting the Dickensian echo of the HBO TV series The Wire: International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Pablo Ruano San Segundo
This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire. Charles Dickens is probably the literary author to whom the series has most frequently been likened. This correspondence is scrutinized here, as it seems to have been built upon impressionistic references, rather than on methodical intertextual analyses of both the series and the Victorian author. The
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Making a little go a long way: A corpus-based analysis of a high-frequency word and some pedagogical implications for young Spanish learners International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Belén Labrador de la Cruz
This study explores the different uses of the word little, its equivalents in Spanish and its teaching to young Spanish learners. First, it aims at analyzing the lexico-grammatical behavior of little in a corpus of children’s short stories, where its prevailing use, preceding countable nouns, has been found to be much more frequent than in other domains and registers. A contrastive study follows, which
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Using subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing as an innovative pedagogical tool in the language class: International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Noa Talaván
The present article describes a didactic proposal based on the use of an audiovisual translation and accessibility mode as a pedagogical tool: subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). When students create SDH for a pre-selected clip within a well-structured task, they are enhancing integrated skills, especially in the form of written production (of the subtitles), listening comprehension (of
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Collective peer scaffolding, self-revision, and writing progress of novice EFL learners : International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-30 Alireza Memari Hanjani
This classroom-based study examined the effect of collective peer scaffolding activity on narrative and descriptive self-revised drafts and new paragraphs developed by 32 EFL university students in a paragraph writing course in Iran. Each genre was discussed and practiced every other week and was followed by a collective peer scaffolding session. For each genre, learners were required to develop a
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“Great to see ur staff are doing their job properly” International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Patricia Palomino-Manjón
The emergence of new technologies has changed the way people communicate. Social media have allowed businesses to connect with customers and to market their products more efficiently. However, these platforms also allow customers to share information and opinions with the company and fellow customers, diverting from previous online service encounters which only allowed the interaction between the service
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From the perspective of: Functional Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics Research Articles International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Alireza Jalilifar, Seyed Mohammad Ghoreishi
The current study explored two levels of lexical bundles, core (i.e. general) and peripheral (i.e. domain specific), in a corpus of 200 applied linguistics research articles and examined the functions they serve. Using Antconc software, in total, 2563 lexical bundles were identified including 593 core bundles and 1370 peripheral bundles. These numbers account for 30% and 70% of the full list of bundles
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Analysis of pragmatic items in an ESL online adaptive placement test International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 María Luisa Carrió-Pastor, Beatriz Martín Marchante
The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence pragmatic failure in an online adaptive placement test taken by Spanish students in their first year at university. A preceding analysis (Carrio and Martin, 2016) showed the type of personal factors that caused the exam takers pragmatic failure according to their own perception. In this paper
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Foreign language classroom anxiety among English for Specific purposes (ESP) students International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Marian Amengual-Pizarro
This study aims at exploring the degree of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) towards the learning of English that English for Specific Purposes students report experiencing. The participants in this study were 67 undergraduates at the University of the Balearic Islands enrolled in two university degree programs. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz et al., 1986) was used to collect
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Child task-supported interaction in the Spanish EFL setting. Research and challenges International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 María del Pilar García Mayo
Task-based language teaching research has expanded substantially in foreign language (FL) contexts but most research studies have been carried out with young adults in university settings, despite the fact that FL programs for children are on the increase worldwide. However, there is a clear lack of research-based evidence of what children actually do while performing tasks, which is crucial in order
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Love, Attachment, and Effacement International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Justyna Wierzchowska
This article examines seventeen children poems by Sylvia Plath written in the years 1960-63, in relation to the poetics of romantic love. Drawing on motherhood studies (Klein, 1975; O’Reilly, 2010; Rich, 1976; Winnicott, 1956, 1965, 1967), the maternal shift in psychoanalysis (see Bueskens, 2014: 3-6), and attachment theory (Bowlby, 1950, 1969, 1988), it reads love as a continuous human disposition
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Requests in tourist information office service encounters International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Patricia Salazar, Sara Orts
Traditionally, the speech act of requesting has been regarded as a face-threatening act (Brown & Levinson, 1987) due to the impositive nature on the addressee’s negative face. Yet, in specific service encounters, requests can no longer be seen as threatening (Antonopoulou, 2001). This is the case of tourist information offices, where mitigators may not be present due to the task-oriented nature of
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The construction of authorial voice in writing research articles: A corpus-based study from an APPRAISAL theory perspective International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Weiyu Zhang, Yin Ling Cheung
This study explores voice from an APPRAISAL theory perspective. It aims to investigate how published research writers deploy ATTITUDE and GRADUATION resources to review existing literature in the field. The study is based on a corpus of literature reviews (LRs) from 204 research articles (RAs) in computer networks and communications (CNC) and second language writing (SLW). Findings show that 1) writers
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Plath's Spanish poems and tropes International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-28 María Luisa Pascual Garrido
Although critical attention has focused on Ariel, Sylvia Plath’s earlier poems are also worth examining since they reveal significant details concerning the writer’s evolution towards that final achievement. After getting married in June 1956, Plath and Hughes travelled to Spain and settled in Benidorm for their honeymoon. It is the poems derived from that period and Plath’s response to the alien setting
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Periodicity and intimations of a Judaic universe in David Mamet’s Faustus International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Mohammad Safaei
David Mamet’s Faustus presents a complex amalgam of various ideas, traditions and cultures. After a preliminary discussion, in this essay, on the adaptive status of Mamet’s Faustus and on the myth of Faustus throughout history, I approach the notion of periodicity and time in the play, in its religious and anthropological contexts. I further investigate the same theme in tandem with the Nietzschean
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Fragmentation and vulnerability in Anne Enright's The green road (2015): Collateral casualties of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Maria Amor Barros-del Rio
This article explores the representation of family and individuals in Anne Enright's novel The Green Road (2015) by engaging with Zygmunt Bauman's sociological category of “liquid modernity” (2000). In The Green Road, Enright uses a recurrent topic, a family gathering, to observe the multiple forms in which particular experiences seem to have suffered a process of fragmentation during the Celtic Tiger
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‘One does not take sides in these neutral latitudes': Myles na gCopaleen and The Emergency International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Germán Asensio Peral
The years of the Second World War (1939-1945), a period known as The Emergency in Ireland, were pivotal for the development of the nation. Immediately after the outburst of the war in the continent, the Fianna Fail cabinet led by Eamon de Valera declared the state of emergency and adopted a neutrality policy. To ensure this, the government imposed strict censorship control, especially on journalism
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Review of Swirski, Peter. 2015. American Political Fictions: War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics. US: Palgrave Macmillan. 214 pages. ISBN: 978-1-349-70461-3 International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Lian Xiong
American Political Fictions is one of a couple of Americanist studies by Peter Swirski in recent years. In this book, he studies five cases of American political fiction, all published or released during the last few decades, including Heller’s Picture This (1998), LaHaye and Jenkins’ Left Behind (1995), Beaton’s A Planet for the President (2004), the rap by various artists and The West Wing by co-authors
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Promotion through claiming centrality in L1 and L2 English Research Article Introductions International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Jalil Abdi, Karim Sadeghi
Marketization in all public spheres including academic discourse has led to the increased importance of promotion. One of the promotional tools usually used in Research Articles Introductions (RAIs) is claiming centrality which can be realized through different linguistic and textual resources. In this study, our aim was to explore differences between native and non-native writers in the use of strategies
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Study of accuracy and grammatical complexity in EFL writing International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Ana Cristina Lahuerta
The present study seeks to compare the writing products of EFL undergraduates using as measures accuracy and grammatical complexity. It also intends to describe the evolution of the morphological and syntactic errors as English is used by learners. A total of 100 learners of English as a foreign language participated in the study. They were divided into two groups according to their Oxford Placement
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Review of Crystal, David. 2017. Making Sense. The Glamorous Story of English Grammar. London: Profile Books. xvii + 281 pages. ISBN: 978-1-78125-602-2 International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Pablo Tagarro Melón,Nerea Suárez González
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Receptive vocabulary measures for EFL Costa Rican high school students International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Damaris Castro-García
The study offers a glimpse of the current situation of foreign language education in the Costa Rican context from the perspective of vocabulary knowledge, particularly passive vocabulary size. Students from two institutions participated: one school implements Content Based Teaching while the other follows traditional, Foreign Language Teaching instruction. This research aims to describe the receptive
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“Apparently, women don't know how to operate doors": A corpus-based analysis of women stereotypes in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun International Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2017-12-01 Carmen Gregori-Signes
This paper explores how women stereotypes are discursively evaluated in the TV sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun by paying attention to the societal, cultural and ideological values they convey. Following recent trends for the study of television series (Bednarek, 2010), the analysis is both qualitative and quantitative, adopting a Corpus - Assisted Discourse Analysis approach (Baker, 2006; Partington,