This study seeks to analyse the occurrence of contrastive relational markers in a corpus recipes called Corpus Women’s Instructive Texts English, 19th century sub-corpus (COWITE19). Opposition relations, also referred as adversative or contrastive, are usually identified with such “but”, “although”, and “however”. From semantic point view, classification these relations can be established into ...

Preface he Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) was an online graduate program I created in 2002 at Norwich University and directed until 2009. The current name of the program is the Online Master of Science in Information Security & Assurance 3. The original program was taught over 18 months in six 11-week seminars that required students to study assigned readings, participate in ...

Second language writing instruction has been greatly influenced by the growing importance of technology and the recent shift of paradigm from a cognitive to a social orientation in second language acquisition (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006). Therefore, the applications of computer assisted language learning and activity theory have been suggested as a promising framework for writing studies. The prese...

Development of noun phrase structure and use is analyzed as an important facet of syntactic acquisition from middle childhood to adolescence. Noun phrases occurring in narrative and expository texts produced in both speech and writing by 96 native speakers of English and Hebrew were identified and examined by a set of specially devised criteria including length in words, syntactic depth, abstra...