The present paper focused on the sociocultural explanations of rhetorical differences between English and Persian and was based on the contrastive genre analysis of Applied Linguistics research article abstracts in these two languages. The evolutionary nature of research article abstracts was also investigated from 1985 to 2005, in three stages, with a time interval of 10 years. Seventy eight r...

the diwan school is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. however, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as english...

To read an article with unexplained acronyms is time-consuming and aggravating.1 To read an article with non-English acronyms explained in the English language is equally frustrating and befuddling. Three articles2–4 in a recent issue of The American Journal of Cardiology (November 1, 1999) are such examples. The article on drug conversion of atrial fibrillation2 did not bother to explain the a...

Following Swales’s (1981) works on genre analysis, studies on different sections of research articles in different languages and fields abound. This paper compares Applied Linguistics  research article abstracts published in Oxford University and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in English using Swales’s (1981-1990) move structure model and Halliday’s (1994) description of transitivity process...

Publishing medical papers in English is important as English remains the predominant language for most medical papers (both electronic and traditional journal publications). In addition, journals with the highest impact factors are published in English and a publication in English thus enhances the visibility of authors and their institutions, and is important for promotion in some academic cen...

With the development of China’s reform and opening, it is quite necessary for Chinese college students to improve their English competence, hence calling for reform in current college English teaching and strengthening practical English teaching. After analyzing the problems in China’s English teaching, this article puts forward some solutions.

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / November 2015, pp 1 17 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000723, Published online: 28 October 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728915000723 How to cite this article: MARTA ORTEGA-LLEBARIA, MARITZA NEMOGÁ and NORA PRESSON Long-term experience with a tonal language shapes the perception of intonation in English...

This article addresses the issue of the English-only movement in the United States public schools, specifically the Structured English Immersion (SEI) methodology. It discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education by reviewing theoretical and empirical research about the implementation of SEI. The article articulates that SEI is an appropriate alternative to other bilingual instructi...

This article discusses the impact of the advent of primary English on the development of College English in China. The advent of English in primary schools as a teaching subject has brought about a downward shift of focus of the English education system in China. Basic English education will be accomplished in primary and secondary schools. The part of basic English education conventionally ass...