The article focuses on the factors that cause linear and vertical sentence extension of multiple complex-compound sentences used in English fictional literature. Considering the sentence structure as a combination of 2 Units – paratactic and hypotactic the authors define the structural peculiarities of paratactic and hypotactic units including the number of clauses and its bonds. The extension ...

framed in a cognitive approach to task-supported l2 vocabulary learning, the present study used a pedagogical approach to investigate the relative effectiveness of tasks with different involvement loads on the vocabulary knowledge of iranian efl learners. the goal was to investigate the way that the construct of involvement load is related to the input hypothesis (krashen, 1985) and the output ...

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies over the last five years, it has been argued that immersive 3D virtual worlds provide opportunities for language learners to engage in authentic language use and collaborative communicative tasks [4]. While in Japan a task-based (TBLT) approach is starting to win favour among government policy makers [18], where its functional and situated approach to lea...

When established communication systems cannot be used, people rapidly create novel systems to modify the mental state of another agent according to their intentions. However, there are dramatic inter-individual differences in the implementation of this human competence for communicative innovation. Here we characterize psychological sources of inter-individual variability in the ability to buil...

BACKGROUND communicative functions used by language therapists and patients. AIM to analyze the communicative functions used by language therapists and patients of the autistic spectrum. METHOD the communicative functions expressed by six therapists in interaction with six patients each were analyzed, constituting 36 profiles of communicative functions expressed by the dyad therapist-patien...

This study aimed to evaluate the textbook “Skills for Success- Reading and Writing” based on criteria of a good by Cunningsworth (1984). book is taught level 1 at King Khalid University. A qualitative method with content analysis was used collecting analyzing data. (1984)’s involve eight categories, language content, selection grading items, presentation practice new skills communicative abilit...

Despite their considerable communicative abilities, young children often have difficulty interpreting complex linguistic structures in context. Two examples of this phenomenon are negation and pragmatic implicature, both of which pose sometimes surprising difficulties for preschoolers. Both of these structures require children to resist a more salient alternative interpretation; since executive...

Much of the research exploring the features of speech that distinguish intelligibility ratings has focused on monologic speech production. This study considers whether the use of specific interactive features in task-based interaction influences interlocutors' ratings of intelligibility. Five dyads completed an information gap task and rated their partners' intelligibility following task comple...

In the present paper we will give an overview of a number of studies where the purpose has been to examine deafened adults ́ phonological representation of sounds and possible functional consequences of an imperfect phonological representation. Deafened adults ́ performance on cognitive tasks that require phonological processing has been compared with that of normal hearing individuals. The resul...