Due to the special (procedural) nature of the language (verbal communication) ‘knowledge’, the dominant trends in applied linguistics research in the last few decades have been advocating ‘acquisition’ rather than ‘learning’ activities where the main focus in SL & FL education should be on ‘meaning’ while some ‘focus-on-form’ being justified. But the ‘form’ to be ‘focused-on’ is mostly misconce...

the meaning of an idiomatic expression cannot be transparently worked out from the meanings of its constituent words due to its figurative and unpredictable nature. consequently, the syntactic composition and the structural paradigm of an idiomatic expression are supposed to be the same in every context. however, this is not the case in the institutionalized second language varieties of english...

Çalışmada ders kitaplarındaki metinleri değerlendirmek üzere “PISA Ölçütünde Metinsellik Rubriği”nin (PÖMR) geliştirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Veriler 2019-2020 eğitim-öğretim yılında okutulan ortaokul (5-8. sınıf) Türkçe kitaplarında serbest okuma metni olarak yer alan ve PISA’nın sürekli metin özelliklerini taşıyan 20 metninin 4 bağımsız puanlayıcı tarafından puanlanmasıyla elde edilmiştir. Analit...

In this paper we review DMSumm, an automatic summary generator based on a discourse model that combines semantic, rhetorical and intentional knowledge. We assess the automatic results in the light of three basic constraints: gist preservation, communicative goal satisfaction and textuality.

Translation Studies and practices currently face some procedural challenges which are summarizable into problems of Text reception analyses, transfer text meaning, assessment translation text, realization textual equivalence. practice have also witnessed a number theories approaches aimed at solving these problems. Textlinguistics has recently been considered pragmatic touchstone for the analys...

arabic pastiches are poems by which their composers imitate the brilliant previous poems meterly, rhymely and contently. and throughout the long history of the arabic literature, they enjoyed very-various styles with the invention occasionally. so the stylistics, arising from the structuralism, can study them by its analytical methods which include the rhetorical, rhythmical, and textualitical ...