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Lin, Xi; Su, Shu; McElwain, Alyssa – Journal of International Students, 2019
This study explores academic stressors and achievement goal orientations of college students, and the relationship between these variables using academic stressors as predictors. As the number of English as a Second Language (ESL) international students has increased rapidly in the US, students' status (American or ESL international) was also…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Stress Variables, College Students
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Garayeva, Almira K.; Akhmetzyanov, Ildar G.; Khismatullina, Lutsia G. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The importance of the topic of this study is determined by several factors: increased interest of linguists to the problem of interaction between language and culture; the need to study the onomastic units as body language. The purpose of this article is to identify the types of motivational nick names of famous American and English public…
Descriptors: Naming, Public Officials, Language Research, Cultural Influences
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Gebreen, Hayder A. K. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The issue of identity is one of the main issues that encounters man in each culture. Identity is a set of behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns which are unique to every individual that define him as a member of a certain group. Identity is shaped by race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, language, physical features, childhood experiences, sexual…
Descriptors: Novels, Self Concept, Developmental Stages, Authors
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Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
This paper examines the usage frequency of phonetically reduced modals (i.e. "gonna," "wanna," "gotta") in Present-day English. It is assumed that in distinct sociolinguistic and discourse contexts, the use of reduced modals is dynamic. To collect the data, there are five corpora used in this study, "Corpus of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Word Frequency
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Green, David – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
Given that research in language and literacy studies proffers multilingual and translingual literacy studies as central to contemporary English studies, English studies can benefit from increased attention to hip-hop language practices. While some linguists have argued for closer analysis of hip-hop nation language (HHNL) because of its relevance…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Popular Culture, English, North American English
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Çorakçi, Neslihan; Demirezen, Mehmet – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
Diphthongs are double vowel sounds made by combining two vowels in the same syllable. During their articulation in the oral cavity, the first vowel sound glides onto the next vowel from one position of the mouth to another within the same syllable. That's why they are heard as single-vowel phonemes by listeners. Because of a gliding movement in…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, North American English, Vowels, Syllables
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Basabrin, Abrar – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This paper investigates the myth of children's monolingual brain by conducting a case study of a two-year-old Saudi-American girl, who is in the two-word stage of vocalization, by focusing on a certain speech act, viz., "greeting" and demonstrating how it is heavily code-switched into Arabic/English language(s) with regard to the context…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Arabs, North Americans
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Monroy, Jorge A.; Cheung, Rebecca Y. M.; Cheung, Cecilia S. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2019
Despite ample research on the role of parental autonomy support in adolescents' adjustment, the affective processes underlying parental autonomy support remain relatively unclear. As an initial step to fill this gap, the current research examined whether the association between parental autonomy support and adolescents' school adjustment was in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Student Adjustment, Parent Child Relationship
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Basol, Hasan Çaglar; Kartal, Galip – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Discourse markers (DMs) are significant for fluent speech. Furthermore, they are essential elements of language for conversation organisation, reciprocal relation of interlocutors, productive speaking and comprehension. Although they have critical functions for pragmatic development, they are neglected in language teaching either because of the…
Descriptors: Films, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kafes, Hüseyin – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2018
This corpus-based exploratory study investigates the rhetorical organization of research article (RA) introductions in the field of social sciences, using an adapted version of Swales' (1990) framework of move analysis. A corpus of 75 research article introductions in English by American academic writers and in English and Turkish by Turkish…
Descriptors: Turkish, Research Reports, Contrastive Linguistics, Teaching Methods
Sneller, Betsy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The traditional Philadelphia allophonic /ae/ system (henceforth: PHL shown in (1) below) is characterized by a set of complicated conditioning factors and a dramatic acoustic distinction between the two allophones. In recent years, some Philadelphians have begun to exhibit a new allophonic system (NAS, shown in (2) below). Like PHL, NAS is…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Variation, Pronunciation, Acoustics
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Seferta, Joseph – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2016
There was a brief period in the long history of the suffering church in Iraq when it received a tremendous support that it could only dream about. That was between 1932 and 1969 when it was enriched by the presence of American Jesuits who gave the church much of the educational, moral and pastoral backing that it needed. In this article we shall…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Education, Churches, Moral Values
Burns, Roslyn Cherie – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation explores dialect diversification in the long-distance New World Plautdietsch speech community. Plautdietsch dialects are traditionally classified as belonging to one of two types: either Chortitza or Molotschna. The traditional dialect classification has recently come under scrutiny because speakers rarely use features exclusive…
Descriptors: German, Religious Cultural Groups, Dialects, Language Variation
Fouad, Khadija Engelbrecht – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A qualitative investigation into American Muslim undergraduates' views on evolution revealed three main positions on evolution: theistic evolution, a belief in special creation of all species, and a belief in special creation of humans with evolution for all non-human species. One can conceive of the manner in which respondents chose their…
Descriptors: North Americans, Muslims, Islam, Undergraduate Students
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Yazawa, Kakeru; Whang, James; Kondo, Mariko; Escudero, Paola – Second Language Research, 2020
This study examines relative weighting of two acoustic cues, vowel duration and spectra, in the perception of high front vowels by Japanese learners of English. Studies found that Japanese speakers rely heavily on duration to distinguish /i?/ and [character omitted] in American English (AmE) as influenced by phonemic length in Japanese /ii/ and…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Vowels
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