Every language involves friendly and polite as well as hostile and impolite situationsin which language users have to use the context-appropriate language. However,unlike politeness which has generated a great number of studies, few studies havebeen conducted on impoliteness especially in EFL contexts. The present study aimedto see whether language learners and teachers hold the same idea conce...

Learning attitudes and motivation are among the most important factors that affect students' second language learning outcomes. Many previous studies also revealed have a positive relationship with students’ However, non-native Chinese Language (CL) learners may require more attention. Hence, objectives of this study (1) to identify Malaysian former SJKC CL learners’ proficiency levels; (2) exa...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the long-term effect of an early prevention program on mothers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices with regard to their children's development. The prevention program focused on increasing the mothers' sensitivity to their children's needs and their awareness of the importance of their role in their children's early development. METHOD Fifty-five mothers and the...

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People in conversation tend to accommodate the way they speak. It has been assumed that this tendency to imitate each other's speech patterns serves to increase liking between partners in a conversation. Previous experiments examined the effect of perceived social attractiveness on the tendency to imitate someone else's speech and found that vocal imitation increased when perceived attractivene...

In his 1989 paper on Canadian dialects, Jack Chambers says he fears the demise of "the most distinctly Canadian sound the source of the "aboot the hoose comments [or Canadian Raising] from Canadian English." Chambers is referring to the fact that Canadians seem to have replaced the Raising Rule with a Fronting Rule, so that the segments he is referring to (i.e. /awl) now tend to be pronounced n...