Abstract Previous studies have found that but and so occur frequently in native non-native English speakers’ speech they are easy to acquire by speakers. The current study compared ideational pragmatic functions of speakers English. Data for the were gathered using individual sociolinguistic interviews with five ten L1 Chinese results suggest even though acquired as well speakers, underused the...

The e-rater system 1 is an operational automated essay scoring system, developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS). The average agreement between human readers, and between independent human readers and e-rater is approximately 92%. There is much interest in the larger writing community in examining the system’s performance on nonnative speaker essays. This paper focuses on results of a stud...

BACKGROUND There is little information available on the factors influencing people's selection of wild plants for consumption. Studies suggest a suitable method of understanding the selection of edible plants is to assess people's perceptions of these resources. The use and knowledge of wild resources is disappearing, as is the opportunity to use them. This study analyzes people's perceptions o...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea an Indian identity and Native American Dream in Sherman Alexie’s short story “One Good Man.” In story, Alexie introduces constructed by White Americans attempts through his characters redefine that concept deconstructing all different stereotypes created society. order do this, he also calls “Native Dream” express social inequality hopeless exi...

The relative difficulty with which spoken corpora can be compiled by the researcher compared with written discourses, coupled with the time needed to fully transcribe spoken data, to say nothing of the additional expenses involved, inevitably has made large spoken corpora a far rarer entity than written corpora. And yet, if we are to further unravel the intricacies of spoken discourse, we need ...

Social Media has infiltrated all manner of users, and none more than the current digital native who is studying at university. This has led to the rise in questions of how best to use these computermediated communications in academic settings. Recent research shows that Twitter is very popular amongst students, though little work exists on the impact of Tweeting, and how it can be measured. Thi...

This paper provides an analysis of discourse markers in English(es) spoken by Zanzibaris, using data from sociolinguistic interviews. The focus is on you know and I think. In English as a lingua franca (ELF), both have been shown to be used differently than ‘native’ speakers, especially marking subjectivity or speaker-centeredness. show similarities with ELF communication, that the express high...