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Download full textNúñez, Jayrome Lleva – Online Submission, 2021
Learning a new language is one of the privileges that a person can get when moving from one place to another and staying there for a longer time. In this paper, I will discuss my journey that resulted to gradual decline of my L1 (First language), Polillohing Tagalog, which is a variety of the Tagalog language, in the Philippines. The result of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Language Skill Attrition
Alrefaee, Yasser; Al-Ghamdi, Naimah; Almansoob, Najeeb – Online Submission, 2019
The present paper attempts to study the realization of refusal responses to invitations and requests among Yemen EFL learners in equal, higher and lower social status. It also aims to find out the pragmatic failure resulted from negative pragmatic transfer. In order to do so, refusals of 40 Yemeni EFL (20 high and 20 low proficient) learners were…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Paradowski, Michal B. – Online Submission, 2008
English today is one of the most hybrid and rapidly changing languages in the world. New users of the language are not just passively absorbing, but actively shaping it, breeding a variety of regional Englishes, as well as pidgins and English-lexified creoles. Also, as in an increasing number of countries English is becoming an element of core…
Descriptors: English, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Variation
Zhou, Yalun; Wei, Michael – Online Submission, 2007
Despite individual differences, all bilinguals share the ability to act in their native language, in their second language, and to switch back and forth between the two languages they know (Van Hell, 1998). Chinese is the largest Asian American ethnic group in the United States. Their use of code-switching is an increasingly important issue in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Acquisition, Case Studies, Chinese Americans
Mills, Jon – Online Submission, 2000
It has been understood for decades that language and thought are closely related. If one accepts that the thoughts that we construct are based upon the language that we speak and the words that we use, then it follows that the language that we speak influences the way that we think. It is necessary that we possess the words to describe objects,…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Role, Concept Formation, Linguistic Theory
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2006
In their study in 1990, Clark and Isaacs identified five properties and seven defining features that distinguished between English ostensible and genuine invitations. To see if Persian ostensible and genuine invitations could be distinguished by the same features and properties, the present study was carried out. 45 field workers observed and…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Undergraduate Students, Data Analysis, Friendship
