Abstract This study tried to examine the relationship between language strategies/sources and ideologies, and how ideologies are constructed and expressed through language strategies in different English newspapers with different political contexts. The focus of the study was on the style of representation of Syrian civil war in Tehran-Times and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers. The data from these n...

this study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to evaluate english language teachers’ lesson plan- ning self-concept. to this end, 30 english teachers were asked to prepare a sample lesson plan and 15 of them were invited to participate in a semi-structured interview. a tentative questionnaire including six fac- tors namely: classroom management, lesson planning conformity, planning eff...

This paper presents an implemented hybrid approach to grammar and style checking, combining an industrial patternbased grammar and style checker with bidirectional, large-scale HPSG grammars for German and English. Under this approach, deep processing is applied selectively based on the error hypotheses of a shallow system. We have conducted a comparative evaluation of the two components, suppo...

Background: A religious belief and spirituality training of women can have a significant impact on various dimensions of individual and family healt...

* Corresponding author: Helen Meng ([email protected]) Abstract This paper presents a system named MusicSpeak, which strives to capitalize on musical rhythm for prosodic training in second language acquisition. The system targets for Chinese (L1) speakers learning English (L2). Their speech rhythms are considered to be syllable-timed and stress-timed respectively. Hence, language transfer c...

Humanizing language learning materials helps language teachers to design activities that are linked to learn- ers’ lives and experiences. This can result in higher motivation and engagement in the process of foreign language learning. Self-determination theory-based instruction enhances learners’ engagement and motiva- tion through supporting the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competen...

We are developing stylistic grammars to provide the basis for a French and English stylistic parser. Our stylistic grammar is a branching stratificational model, built upon a foundation dealing with lexical, syntactic, and semantic stylistic realizations. Its central level uses a vocabulary of constituent stylistic elements common to both English and French, while the top level correlates styli...