Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.003
Ha Thi Mai Thanh
This study investigates the linguistic features of 50 American English food advertising slogans. An analysis of the words in these slogans will highlight the distinctive features of the term use and its impact on the customers. The result of the study will contribute more data on the language of advertising slogans and clarifies the linguistic characteristics of American English to help advertisers have more information to create exciting advertising slogans and achieve optimal performance.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.004
T. T. Loan
With the development of modern technology and high education, the mobile phone is not only an essential piece of equipment to use in life but also becomes an ideal tool for students to improve their knowledge, so it cannot be denied that students can use mobile phones to improve their English effectively. Therefore, mobile-assisted language learning is considered a new multidisciplinary field of educational technology. We hope that the results of this study could serve as the basis for other researchers to do research on the effects of mobile phones when improving English in an academic environment and provide people who have an interest in this topic with the relationship between students and the necessity of using mobile phones to support learning in classes, especially in English. This study could be helpful for teachers to pay more attention to developing a new way to bring knowledge to their students instead of focusing mainly on the old method like books, boards or fundamental theories.
{"title":"A Survey on the uses of Mobile Phones in Facilitating English Learning for Students at Transport and Communications University in Ho Chi Minh City","authors":"T. T. Loan","doi":"10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.004","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of modern technology and high education, the mobile phone is not only an essential piece of equipment to use in life but also becomes an ideal tool for students to improve their knowledge, so it cannot be denied that students can use mobile phones to improve their English effectively. Therefore, mobile-assisted language learning is considered a new multidisciplinary field of educational technology. We hope that the results of this study could serve as the basis for other researchers to do research on the effects of mobile phones when improving English in an academic environment and provide people who have an interest in this topic with the relationship between students and the necessity of using mobile phones to support learning in classes, especially in English. This study could be helpful for teachers to pay more attention to developing a new way to bring knowledge to their students instead of focusing mainly on the old method like books, boards or fundamental theories.","PeriodicalId":142956,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128994394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-18DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.002
S. Ozaki
English has become an international language, with a large number of governments promoting its study for national prosperity and economic development. However, there have been only a few empirical studies concerning the impact of English proficiency on the economic development of countries. These studies utilize economic development indicators such as GDP, GDP per capita, as well as GDI. They also adopt various English proficiency indicators: average TOEFL scores, average EF Standard English Test scores, and a comparison of the Outer Circle and the Expanding Circle. They focus on the influence of English proficiency on economic development and foreign trade, but not on prosperity, which consists of some elements other than these. Furthermore, results in this field significantly change depending on the types of indicators. Therefore, further research is necessary with various indicators to draw a more complete picture. This study adopts the Legatum Prosperity Index as a prosperity measurement and compares the Expanding Circle and the Outer Circle with a t-test. The result shows that the former is superior to the later. The study further investigates the situation in Asia and Africa, since these regions have a significant number of Outer-Circle countries. The research outcome indicates that there is no significant statistical difference between the two circles. These results suggest that having a large number of people who have high English proficiency does not always lead nations to prosperity.
{"title":"Impact of English Proficiency on National Prosperity: Comparative Study on the Outer Circle and the Expanding Circle","authors":"S. Ozaki","doi":"10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.002","url":null,"abstract":"English has become an international language, with a large number of governments promoting its study for national prosperity and economic development. However, there have been only a few empirical studies concerning the impact of English proficiency on the economic development of countries. These studies utilize economic development indicators such as GDP, GDP per capita, as well as GDI. They also adopt various English proficiency indicators: average TOEFL scores, average EF Standard English Test scores, and a comparison of the Outer Circle and the Expanding Circle. They focus on the influence of English proficiency on economic development and foreign trade, but not on prosperity, which consists of some elements other than these. Furthermore, results in this field significantly change depending on the types of indicators. Therefore, further research is necessary with various indicators to draw a more complete picture. This study adopts the Legatum Prosperity Index as a prosperity measurement and compares the Expanding Circle and the Outer Circle with a t-test. The result shows that the former is superior to the later. The study further investigates the situation in Asia and Africa, since these regions have a significant number of Outer-Circle countries. The research outcome indicates that there is no significant statistical difference between the two circles. These results suggest that having a large number of people who have high English proficiency does not always lead nations to prosperity.","PeriodicalId":142956,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127562161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.001
Genevive C. Osuji, Shirley Yul-Ifode
Dyslexia is a disorder that impacts a child negatively and, as such, should not be overlooked when it manifests in a child. As a reading and writing disorder, it always gives concern to parents whenever a child who has attained speaking and writing ages is not able to read or write as he/she ought to. Therefore, the main focus of this work is to evaluate the language disordered children with dyslexia with the view to ascertain the teachers’ levels of awareness of this disorder in Port Harcourt city. This work adopted the descriptive survey protocol, and data was got from ’THE CHILD” Special School, Kaduna street, D-line Port Harcourt. It is worthy of note from the data obtained in this investigation, that the teachers were obviously ignorant of what dyslexia means, and so it can be concluded that their levels of awareness of this disorder is very low. The low awareness of this condition makes it so difficult for both the teacher and the affected child to cope well with each other. This is more prominent when the child is enrolled in a mainstream school, because teachers in such schools lack competence in the various special ways to handle the children with the disorder.
{"title":"Evaluation of Language Disordered Children with Dyslexia and Teachers’ Awareness in Port Harcourt City","authors":"Genevive C. Osuji, Shirley Yul-Ifode","doi":"10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2023.v05i01.001","url":null,"abstract":"Dyslexia is a disorder that impacts a child negatively and, as such, should not be overlooked when it manifests in a child. As a reading and writing disorder, it always gives concern to parents whenever a child who has attained speaking and writing ages is not able to read or write as he/she ought to. Therefore, the main focus of this work is to evaluate the language disordered children with dyslexia with the view to ascertain the teachers’ levels of awareness of this disorder in Port Harcourt city. This work adopted the descriptive survey protocol, and data was got from ’THE CHILD” Special School, Kaduna street, D-line Port Harcourt. It is worthy of note from the data obtained in this investigation, that the teachers were obviously ignorant of what dyslexia means, and so it can be concluded that their levels of awareness of this disorder is very low. The low awareness of this condition makes it so difficult for both the teacher and the affected child to cope well with each other. This is more prominent when the child is enrolled in a mainstream school, because teachers in such schools lack competence in the various special ways to handle the children with the disorder.","PeriodicalId":142956,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115644433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.003
Thai Thi Xuan Ha, Nguyen Kim Vu Bao
This study aims to investigate the lexical features of American English and Vietnamese food advertisements. In particular, the study focuses on analyzing and describing the lexical features of American English and Vietnamese food advertisements. Moreover, the article gives an analysis of the language of advertising from the linguistic point of view and lexical features of food advertising in 100 slogans in American English and Vietnamese. The advertising slogans chosen for the analysis on a random basis were divided into many different groups with a focus on word classification and lexical elements. The result of the study will contribute to enhancing the understanding of the advertising language aspect, helping advertisers in Vietnam create a highly effective advertisement that has positive effects on advertising viewers.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.002
L. Xia
The study aims to investigate the pragmatic information in Chinese-English dictionaries. A general survey was made to examine the status quo of the pragmatic information in the existing Chinese-English dictionaries. It was found that all large- and medium-sized dictionaries under investigation provided some pragmatic information. However, these dictionaries only provided the pragmatic information about the Chinese headword but not the English equivalent. The author argues that since the target users of these dictionaries are Chinese EFL learners, they should state clearly the pragmatic differences between the headword in the source language and the equivalent in the target language. Moreover, the cultural notes provided should be focused on the English equivalents instead.
{"title":"Treatment of Pragmatic Information in the Chinese-English Dictionary","authors":"L. Xia","doi":"10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.002","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to investigate the pragmatic information in Chinese-English dictionaries. A general survey was made to examine the status quo of the pragmatic information in the existing Chinese-English dictionaries. It was found that all large- and medium-sized dictionaries under investigation provided some pragmatic information. However, these dictionaries only provided the pragmatic information about the Chinese headword but not the English equivalent. The author argues that since the target users of these dictionaries are Chinese EFL learners, they should state clearly the pragmatic differences between the headword in the source language and the equivalent in the target language. Moreover, the cultural notes provided should be focused on the English equivalents instead.","PeriodicalId":142956,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125659772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.001
Diep Thi N. Nguyen, V. Tran, T. Phan, L. Phượng
This paper discusses the factors having influences on learning listening skill in a case study non-English majored student at Saigon Techology University (STU), Vietnam. Five main factors, including 18 elements, were identified: texts, listeners, speakers, tasks, and environment. The data were collected through questionnaire, including multiple choice questions and open questions, from 319 students. The results show that the texts and the listeners are 2 factors having close relation and influence each other with different rankings of different features; interesting, “physical and psychological states” is not the important element in this case. Based on statistical results, from a view of readability, the paper deeply analyzes these features to find the solutions in designing course syllabus, selecting materials, proposing teaching methods and improving the listening learning environment to meet the learning outcome; especially, achieving the outcome standard “B1”, shown the scale by the international TOEIC test, being trained at the school.
{"title":"The Factors Having Influence on Learning Listening Skill in TOEIC- A View from Readability in A Case Study","authors":"Diep Thi N. Nguyen, V. Tran, T. Phan, L. Phượng","doi":"10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i05.001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the factors having influences on learning listening skill in a case study non-English majored student at Saigon Techology University (STU), Vietnam. Five main factors, including 18 elements, were identified: texts, listeners, speakers, tasks, and environment. The data were collected through questionnaire, including multiple choice questions and open questions, from 319 students. The results show that the texts and the listeners are 2 factors having close relation and influence each other with different rankings of different features; interesting, “physical and psychological states” is not the important element in this case. Based on statistical results, from a view of readability, the paper deeply analyzes these features to find the solutions in designing course syllabus, selecting materials, proposing teaching methods and improving the listening learning environment to meet the learning outcome; especially, achieving the outcome standard “B1”, shown the scale by the international TOEIC test, being trained at the school.","PeriodicalId":142956,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128591258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-30DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i04.004
Saidu Yahaya Ojoo
In language teaching, the use of computers has been on since before the coming of the internet. Later computer assisted language learning (CALL) developed and concerned itself with the pedagogical applications of the technology. Information Communication Technology (IT) which is an offshoot of science through its internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) has gone beyond science to broaden the lexical inventories of the English language. It is against this backdrop that this paper tends to conduct a study on computer-mediated communication with a focus on the teaching and learning of the English language in Nigeria. The study aims to bring to the fore the issues and challenges associated with this new normal. The study also examines the benefits associated with the use of this technology in the teaching and learning of the English language. The study also employs Direct Participatory Observation and a questionnaire as means of gathering data for the research. Famous Mclunnham’s Technological Determinism Theory was employed as the theoretical framework of analysis. On the whole, the paper discovered among other things that the use of CMC made students confident and gives them the zeal of being online and wanting to discover and learn via the medium of computer-mediated communication. The study concludes that the use of this method of teaching and learning English in Nigeria has to be encouraged for efficiency and exactness for both in the teaching and learning of English in Nigeria. Solutions and recommendations were proffered to ameliorate the challenges associated with the use of these technological devices.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i04.003
M. Umar
Imperialism is substantially a global, historical, cultural, economic, and political phenomenon. In Africa, how European imperialism has affected people continues to be subjected to debate with varying viewpoints. However, most of the literature on imperialism places greater emphasis on its political and economic dimensions, with passing discussion on its cultural aspect. This study intends to examine the impact of cultural imperialism on the Hausa people. Over the years, from pre-colonial through the colonial and post-colonial periods, Hausa cultures have been subjected to different changes due to different factors, imperialism included. Using primary and secondary sources, this study shows that the major areas of Hausa culture mostly affected by British cultural imperialism include language, culinary habits, attire, traditional sports, lifestyles, and festivities. Given the complexity of the current scholarly debate on the topic, a compilation of multiple viewpoints would be useful. In addition, the linked concepts, such as cultural imperialism and the concept of culture will be examined in depth.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.36346/sarjall.2022.v04i04.002
Dora Essah- Ntiful, E. Kyei
Address and reference terms have attracted a lot of attention in sociolinguistic research. The present study contributes to these works by investigating the kind of address and referring expressions used by postgraduate students when they share e-mails with their lecturers and their colleagues as well as how age, gender and familiarity affect these terms. Using Brown and Ford’s (1961) study on Address in American English as a conceptual framework, a Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) questionnaire was designed and used to retrieve data from fifty-six (56) respondents who were all postgraduate students. The data revealed that postgraduate students mainly used five (5) forms of address terms in e-mails to lecturers: titles, attention getters, kinship terms, personal names and nicknames, and six (6) referring expressions (of lecturers) in e-mails to their colleagues: titles, kingship terms, personal names, nicknames, course titles and generic reference. The study concludes that, whereas age and gender greatly affect address terms and referring expressions in students-lecturers e-mails, familiarity does not present that much considerable influence on the address terms and referring expressions used in students-lecturers e-mails.
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