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Vocabulary Learning Strategies and their Relation to Vocabulary Size in Saudi Female Undergraduate EFL Learners
Get PDFIt is generally agreed in the field of Foreign Language Learning (FLL) that Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLSs) are a subcategory of the more general Language Learning Strategies (LLSs). Research into LLSs began based on the belief that language aptitude was not the only determinant factor of language achievement, and that the learners’ own learning effort and the way they approach language learning also played a major role. The purpose of this study is to investigate VLS use of Saudi female undergraduate EFL learners in each stage of the Vocabulary Learning Process (VLP) and its relation to their vocabulary size. The study population consisted of female students enrolled in the final year of the undergraduate English language program in an English department in a Saudi university. Forty-one students participated in this study, and two data collection instruments were used. The first instrument was a frequency of use questionnaire designed based on the learning processoriented taxonomy of VLSs. The second was a Vocabulary Size Test. The analyses show that the participants used 17 strategies with a high frequency in all the stages of the VLP except for Stages Four and Six. The analyses also show that the most frequently used strategies were mainly cognitive strategies (nine strategies) and metacognitive strategies (five strategies). In terms of the relationship between the use of VLSs and vocabulary size, two strategies were found to be positively correlated with the participants’ vocabulary size. Interestingly, other strategies that are known to be effective in vocabulary learning were found to have a negative correlation with the participants’ vocabulary size
Depersonalization: Deconstructing Eliot’s Notion in The Waste Land
Get PDFThrough a re-reading and a reassessment of Thomas Stearns Eliot’s (1888–1965) masterpiece The Waste Land (1922), the present paper aims at recycling the poem with new polysemy. By using specific methods of the psychoanalytic approach, this study demonstrates that many details about the text and its context are marginalized if read through the objective protocols of Eliot/the New Critics. Thus, the present paper is devoted to re-reading the text subjectively to deconstruct Eliot's “impersonal theory” in catering efficiently for the author’s presence. The conclusion will prove that the text is highly charged with personal tones, and consequently deviates from his theory of “Depersonalization,” thereby proving an authorial presence
Translation Strategies of Taboo Words in Interlingual Film Subtitling
Get PDFInterlingual subtitling was singled out for this research, as it is the common mode used to translate English films intended for an Arabic audience in most Arab T.V channels. However, this form of audiovisual translation is often prone to many constraints, and subtitling taboos is a case in point. The research aims to raise awareness about the special use of some strategies and showcase the ensuing changes, omissions and errors in the target language. This article looks into the translation strategies of taboo words, be them lexemes and/or expressions about death, sex, cursing, religion or calling names. Methodology-wise, 214 EnglishArabic pairs of taboo words were collected from five popular Arab T.V channels and 23 American and British films were assessed. The data was coded according to Gottlieb’s subtitling strategies (1992) and both quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted. The quantitative results showed four specific recurrent strategies during the subtitling process to cope with rendering taboo words. The qualitative analysis, however, revealed other lexico-semantic devices such as euphemism, disphemism and general words; translation techniques namely literal translation, partial rendering and inaccurate equivalence, along with other subtitling technical schemes. The research contributes to fill some gaps in the field of film subtitling from English into Arabic and insists on the importance of applying the adequate strategies when conveying taboos in the target languag
The Relationship between Metacognitive Awareness and L2 Listening Comprehension Performance in Junior High School Students
Get PDFThis study delved into the relationship between metacognitive awareness and second language (L2) listening comprehension performance in junior high school students. Moreover, the relationships between subcomponents of metacognitive awareness (i.e., planning, problem solving, monitoring and evaluation) and L2 listening comprehension were scrutinized. To this end, 106 junior high school students from six intact classes were selected. After selecting the participants, their level of proficiency was checked through Oxford Placement Test. Next, they were requested to answer a listening comprehension test. One week later, the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) was administered to the participants. The results revealed a significantly positive relationship between L2 listening comprehension and metacognitive awareness (r = 0.316, p < .01). The results also showed the highest correlation coefficient between problem solving and listening comprehension (r = 0.374, p < .01). The results imply that EFL teachers should consider not only cognitive variables, but also metacognitive variables in EFL listening comprehension
An Application of Grosjean’s (2001) Bilingual’s Language Modes on English Language Teaching as Medium of Instruction in Ghanaian Primary Schools
Get PDFBialystok (2015) argues that the bilingual’s cognitive benefit is related to the continuous supervision and the need for conflict resolution that happens when dual languages are co-activated. One framework that clearly projects the experience of the bilingual, in terms of swapping languages is the bilingual’s language modes (BLMs) by Grosjean (2001). In this review paper, we have highlighted the policy of medium of instruction for teaching English in primary schools in Ghana. Again, we have briefly described the tenants of the BLMs, and demonstrated how these modes can be applied on the Ghanaian bilingual primary schools. On the basis of the BLMs, we argue that the most suitable medium of instruction for teaching and learning of English as a second language at the primary level (primary 1 - 6) of a diverse Ghanaian multilingual society should be English language, and the mother tongue of the community within which the school is situated. This argument is in conformism with Anyidoho (2009), and Owusu et al. (2015). Consequently, this paper would enable the key stakeholders of Ghanaian primary schools, to reexamine the policy of instruction for teaching English in Ghanaian primary schools, by placing prominence on the first language of the various speech communities in Ghana
Constructing Local Aesthetic in Art and Culture Education: A Case Study of the Design of Curriculum 2013 in Indonesia
Get PDFThe aim of the study is to show the development of curriculum in Indonesia and the
focus on curriculum 2013, especially for constructing local aesthetic in art and
culture education. This year is the beginning of curriculum planning of 2013 (still
using until now) as the result development of School Based Curriculum, as well as
the foundation of thought for the aesthetic and art education. Aesthetic Education
has not been discussed for couple of times. Education brings about the
government policy though it neglects its essence. Hence, it was the time for
thinking ontology to recover the core value of art in the teaching learning activity,
which is in concordance with the fact that children are not the adult yet, through
humanism approach. Referring to the context of problem above, art education in
the curriculum has been contaminated by political and economic motive, such as,
politic of maintaining culture as the art education as the instrument of culture
commodity, utilizing creative industry based on the skill orderliness, National
Examination which leads to the instant learning and which tends to leave the
humanism value and the perception of art education which was conducted as the
course to train the prevalent artist. This program is in accordance with the
positivism which insists on the character education on lesson plan so that it leads to
the separation of the humanism value. In general, the material of the curriculum
burdens children as the students. This dissertation is the proposal as well as for
reverting : (1) the essence of art education as the aesthetic art in the learning
process of Art Education and Cultural (AEC), (2) reverting the role of the art teacher
as the actor who decides on what outcome to be produced not as the part of the
outcome of production; referring to Marxism (3) converting the aesthetic of local
wisdom that was embedded in the learning of process AEC, (4) reverting the diction
of aesthetic as the dimension of the naturalistic humanism which is rich of the
character education, Ethic education and the personality education to gain the
identity as Indonesian
Yixing Dialect: Phonetics and Phonology
Get PDFAs a sub-dialect of Wu dialect, Yixing dialect shares a lot of similarities with other Wu
dialects, but also has its own unique sound system and other phonological rules. This
paper aims at giving the complete sound system of Yixing dialect and unfolding the
phonological rules being responsible for the tone sandhi in Yixing dialect. The paper
will be mainly divided into three parts: in the first part, we will focus on analyzing the
phonetic features of consonants and vowels in Yixing dialect with the use of Praat，
and the diagram of initials and the relative position diagram of monophthongs in
Yixing dialect and Mandarin will be derived. In the second part, we will firstly look at
the tone patterns in Yixing dialect and then the tone sandhi facts in it. With the help
of Praat, we can see clearly how the tones are changed when a word is combined
with the other. In the third part, we will focus on the distribution of labiodental
fricatives [f] and [v] and also the phonological rules accounting for the distribution
will be given
Some Important Features of Two Computer-assisted Translation Tools: Wordfast and SDL Trados Studio
Get PDFIn this paper, I will attempt to examine the features and functions of two tools in an analytical and comparative way. My focus will be on comparing and commenting on various features of their translation memory tools, such as matching functions, operational functions, alignment, etc. Through my experience with Wordfast and SDL Trados Studio, I found it very easy to use and to become familiar with SDL Trados. There are benefits and drawbacks to working with the TMs of both tools. In contrast to SDL Studio TM, Wordfast TM is very complicated to handle. In conjunction with my language pair, I found translating an HTML file with Wordfast complicated and time-consuming
The Role of Rural Educational Leadership in Influencing Societal Behaviour: A Case Study of Goromonzi District: Educational Leaders’ Perceptive
Get PDFThis study establishes the role of rural educational leadership in influencing societal behaviour, focusing Goromonzi District. It was positioned alongside the behavioural theories and the African unhu/ubuntu philosophy, informed by a qualitative case study. It made use of interviews, focus group discussions and observations in the generation of data from a purposive sample of three rural secondary schools. The rural context has its own set of unique community identifiers, making rural schools remarkably different from those found in the urban centres. The rural community is experiencing an influx of urban migration and as a result, the disturbance of an ideal rural setting is posing a challenge to the educational leadership in impacting the societal behaviour in the way it ought to be. Moreover, the educational leadership in the rural community is often characterised by lack of understanding of the rural communities’ traditional beliefs and practices, giving rise to contradictions with what the educational leadership intends to promote and encourage at times. Consequently, a cultural shift and contextual adaptation of distinctive attitudes and behaviours that enhance positive behaviour transformation becomes imperative. Above it all, studying rural behavioural trends as a response to educational leadership was paradoxical journey. The study thus, concludes that while literature points out that leadership has a direct influence of the behaviour of its community, this cannot go far unless the educational leadership deliberately aligns its own behaviour with the dictates of unhu/ubuntu philosophy which has a place in the African rural context
The Causes and Effects of the Religious Conversion on the Native Identity in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958)
Get PDFThis paper aims to investigate illustrations of the religious conversion in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). It attempts to explore the factors affecting the religious change as well as the impact of conversion on the native identity and relations. The paper takes the qualitative approach of data analysis as its purpose is to analyze a written text. It uses the descriptive discourse analysis (DDA) method led by the intercultural communication theory (ICT). The results show three types of conversion (gradual, sudden, socialized) depicted in the novel. The results also reveal that the contact with the new religion's advocators, among other reasons, is the most influential factor that causes change. The results confirm the effect of the religious conversion on the native identity and relations as well. The paper also reinforces the validity of applying the ICT on fictive data and contributes something new to the field