Abstract English Profile (EP) is an ongoing empirical exploration of learner initiated by Cambridge University Press and English, among others. EP aims to create a set empirically-based descriptions language competencies for English. ‘Reference Level Descriptors’ already exist as part the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) but are intuitively derived not designed one specific language. ...

Recent studies from countries with grammatical gender languages (e.g., French) found both children and adults to more frequently think of female jobholders and to consider women's success in male dominated occupations more likely when the jobs were described in pair forms (i.e., by explicit reference to male and female jobholders, e.g., inventeuses et inventeurs; French feminine and masculine p...

for The Logical Structure of an Algorithmic Theory of Tonal Music David Meredith St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford Thesis submitted for degree of D.Phil. in Trinity term 1996 A study of the metatheoretical problems suffered by theories that aim to characterize musical styles leads to certain conclusions as to the logical structure that should be possessed by a style theory and the method...

This study aimed at investigating the effects of grammatical error correction on EFL learners’ accuracy. Twenty-two male and female senior students were chosen randomly to respond to a questionnaire investigating their beliefs about immediate grammatical error correction.  Actually, the study was conducted in order to answer this question: what is the effect of grammatical error feedback on stu...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

This final project studied the analysis of cohesion found on students’ descriptive test writing in SMP N 01 Tayu. The design research was qualitative research. objectives study were (1) To find out type competence by eight grade Tayu producing text, (2) show dominant at their text Tayu, (3) to describe text. object 1 instruments data from students discussions prior chapters are be summarized ac...