this study examined the effect of explicit instruction of hedging on english forspecific academic purposes (esap) reading comprehension performance ofenglish language learning (ell) university students. a reading comprehensiontest was developed and validated as the pretest and the posttest. the test, includingitems for assessing the comprehension of the students in their area of specialization,...

Abstract The paper explores the use of lexeme shit in corpus Dave Chappelle’s stand-up specials released between 2000 and 2019. It consists two parts: theoretical analytical. first one presents pragmatic considerations connected with routines, touches upon slang semantics, depicts links stage persona hip hop community. Lastly, it reader past present-day status at issue. In analytical section af...

This study examined how motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and  length  of  residence  in  the  target language area affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills. The study attempted to account for differential pragmatic development among 50  graduate-level  Korean  students  in  relation  to  individual  factors  mentioned  above.  The  data were...