Pub Date : 2022-07-20DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.8
O. Gul
This research paper deals with the influence of acquiring a new language on the learner’s lifestyle. Keeping in view the Pakistani folks, this paper explores how the acquisition of a new language, particularly the English language, influences the people in shaping their future by making them communicative with people across the world. While talking about the acquisition of a new language in general, the paper explores the influence of learning the English language on the people of Pakistan in the context of their academic and financial careers, improvement of communication skills, enhancement of understanding, and endless opportunities to shape the future inside and outside the country.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.7
Yayu Shi, Qiliang Cui, Mei Yang
The language services industry merits investigation, given its increasingly significant role and rapid development in China and even around the world. This paper gives a brief look at the global picture and a close look at the status quo in China. While in the global market, language services tend to be diversified and technology will be the common denominator to success, in China, despite the rapid growth in recent years, the market leaves much to be desired when it comes to technology, language diversity, high-end talent development, and overall competitiveness. To tackle these problems, this paper proposes some measures for China’s language services providers to catch up with their international counterparts and for China’s language services industry to achieve sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-06DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.6
Mohammad Haroon Wahedi, Sharaafuddin Najm, Aqlima Sediqi
This study explores the noun groups’ structures in the Persian-Dari dialect of the people of Farah Province in Afghanistan. It aims to bring out the variations between the Standard Persian and the one which is spoken in Farah, in the west of Afghanistan, to analyze if there are any differences in the Farahi Persian dialects. To reveal the various structures of the Persian dialect of Farah residents in the west of Afghanistan, a qualitative approach was adopted. The data for the study was collected both from a spontaneous conversation of the native residents in public places and from the selected conversation among 30 Farah University students. The results of the study revealed some remarkable variations in the daily conversation of the Farahi natives. The changes included reduction, increase, and transformation in shape and of the nouns used in the Persian dialect of the residents of Farah compared to Standard Persian. It is the fact that Farah is neighboring Iran, which has effects on the language dialects. These effects are not only seen in the noun phrases. They are also widely visible in other linguistic units of the people living in Farah.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-12DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.5
Han Chen
This study, underpinned by critical framing theory, analyses the English version of The 2021 Report on the Work of the Government, instantiating the Chinese political discourse. First of all, this study extracts key semantic domains and keywords based on an online corpus processing program, Wmatrix. Second, metaphorical surface frames are identified in line with MIPVU, and then conceptual metaphors are summarized. It is found that the metaphorical frames WAR, ARCHITECTURE, and JOURNEY are activated in The 2021 Report on the Work of the Government by the use of such metaphorical words and expressions as a battle, lift out of, build, consolidate, speed up and step. This way of discourse framing is intended to construct the image of the Chinese government as a “leader” who encourages the Chinese people to join as “participants” in the state building. The traditional Chinese moral notion of Gongtianxia, 'the world being equally shared by all,' is the root of the discourse framing.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-06DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.4
Yutian Pang
The study mainly investigates multimodal food discourse, such as socially constructed food videos rich in modes. It took Li Ziqi's "Life Series" food video as an example for analysis, aiming to find out three semiotic resources, namely "culinary persona", "culinary ingredients", and "culinary environment". The research methods are: First, it combined the visual narrative at the level of experiential meaning in Painter et al. (2013) with the auditory one. Second, it slightly adjusted the narrative structure of Labov (1972) to suit the analysis of the narrative structure of food discourse. Next, combined with the given case, this article analyzed the experiential meaning of food discourse from the situational context of the case. Finally, it generalized several cultural keywords based on the case study and discussed their cultural insights. Research has found that the culinary persona, ingredients, and the environment interact with each other, and the cultural connotation behind them is a manifestation of the way of food.
本研究主要研究多模态的食物话语，如具有丰富模态的社会建构食物视频。以李子淇的“生活系列”美食视频为例进行分析，旨在找出“烹饪人物”、“烹饪食材”和“烹饪环境”三种符号学资源。研究方法是:一是将Painter et al.(2013)在体验意义层面的视觉叙事与听觉叙事相结合。其次，略微调整了Labov(1972)的叙事结构，以适应对食物话语叙事结构的分析。其次，结合给定的案例，本文从案例的情境语境出发，分析了食物话语的体验意义。最后，在案例分析的基础上归纳出几个文化关键词，并探讨其文化内涵。研究发现，烹饪人物、食材、环境三者相互作用，其背后的文化内涵是食物方式的一种表现。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.3
Reima Al-Jarf
The present study proposes the integration of mobile fiction Apps (MFAs) in reading instruction to help EFL college students understand the form and content of literary works. It will give examples of fiction Apps that can be downloaded from the Google Play and iPhone App Stores, give the advantages of using MFAs, literary appreciation skills that can be developed with MFAs and instructional stages with MFAs. MFAs can be used as extension activities or as a supplement to in-class reading instruction in ESL/EFL. They are free, easy, and quick to download, update and delete, can be used anywhere, anytime and as many times as the students need. Instruction with smart mobile phones begins with downloading an MFA such as Harry Potter, Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, Wuthering Heights, a novel by Agatha Christi or a collection of stories. Both simplified and original versions can be used depending on the student’s proficiency level, story/novel length and difficulty level. A story/novel video, app or e-book can be used online or offline. Some MFAs provide notes and tests. The instructor can ask pre-questions that require the students to identify the plot, setting, characters, main theme, point of view, symbolism, style, and tone of the narrative, and infer the meanings of figurative language and imagery in the story. Questions and students’ answers, summaries, comments on each other's' responses can be posted in an online discussion forum, blog or social media page. The students can discuss the elements of a literary work under the instructor's supervision. The integration of fiction Apps showed improved reading comprehension, literary appreciation and text analysis skills among participating students and increased their engagement in reading and literary analysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-10DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.2
Victor Marrahí-Gómez, Jose Belda-Medina
The recent emergence of digital authoring tools related to Augmented Reality (AR), such as Zooburst, Roar or Aumentaty, has facilitated the integration of this cutting-edge technology in Education. Consequently, different publications have come out to light about the affordances and limitations of integrating technology AR in the EFL/ESL classroom. Thus, this study seeks to analyze and review the recent trends in AR implementation in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom (EFL) and to present the main projects aimed at teaching English with AR-based projects that have been published in the latest years in WOS and Scopus. Following the methodology, the improvement in the performance of the student in different areas of study has been proved while using AR in EFL teaching.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.1
Kikelomo Adeniyi, TAYE. A. Kehinde
Adekunle Kòsọ́kọ́ and Sìmisola Kòsọ́kọ́ (nee Ogunleye) are married singers, both born and bred in Lagos known by the stage names Kunle Gold and Simi respectively. They are among a group of young, popular, and successful songwriters, composers, and singers. Their music has gained the hearts of Nigerian people, especially the youth. The focus of this paper is to examine critically how they make use of code-switching or code-shifting in their respective music as a 'style' in order to differentiate their songs and also to make a unique identity. It is observed that they alternate between two or more languages to pass information to the target audience in order to showcase their fluency in the languages hence showing their level of literacy and flexibility. The data for analysis and discussion are songs from ‘Duduke’, ‘Sade’, ‘No forget me’, 'Selense’, ‘Promise Me’, and ‘Joromi’. Sociology Theory is used to drive home the point of discussion to reflect the effect of the songs on society.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.1.6
R. Jaber
The influence of gender on language preferences has been a major subject of investigation in modern sociolinguistic research. Previous studies show that social norms, level of education, economic status, and social classifications of gender roles have been identified as some of the key factors influencing different linguistic choices between female and male Iraqi Arabic speakers. The findings of previous studies indicated that Iraq is a male-dominated society. And the women are denied most socio-economic privileges accessible to men, which has significantly influenced their linguistic choices. This investigation, therefore, evaluates to what extent males/females’ speech has different linguistic choices in Nasiriya City, south of Iraq. It aims to present sociolinguistic characteristics of Iraqi women based on 16 hours of voice recorded speech divided into three group situations. A random sampling procedure is applied in this study, where 235 speakers from the University of Thi Qar are involved. The findings collected from 134 female speakers and 101 male speakers indicate that young female speakers aged between 18 to 30-year-old are leading patterns of variation and change towards the prestigious dialect in their choice of some Baghdadi variants. In addition, Nasiriya males are conservatives keeping the use of local Nasiriya variants with a slight approach to Baghdadi variants when the spontaneous speech emerges in talks with females in a mixed group. The findings indicated that even though female speakers currently have equal access to all regional, prestige and standard varieties of the Iraqi Arabic language, both genders differ significantly in terms of their linguistic choices, and their individual choices reflect their social status. Most men are more inclined to use Nasiriya Dialect than Baghdadi Dialect for reasons attributed to strength, toughness and masculinity, while women use the language for prestige and to maintain high social status. Finally, it sounds that sociolinguistic behaviors and patterns of Iraqi Arabic female speakers in the Nasiriya Speech Community are similar to those discovered in Basra and other Arabic-speaking nations and societies.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-09DOI: 10.32996/ijls.2022.2.1.5
Oranggaga, Saliha Dicasaran
Modular Distance Learning is introduced in the country as an individualized instruction that allows learners to use self-learning modules (SLMs) in print or digital format/electronic copy in response to the health crisis around the world. This study was conducted to determine and analyse the challenges and prospects of the English teachers in the schools of Marawi City in teaching grammar using modular distance learning in terms of students' understanding of concepts, assessments, pedagogies, phasing diversified learners' level. This study employed the descriptive research design with the use of Survey Questionnaires, actual in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. The findings of the study showed that the challenges encountered by the respondents are: a. the attitude of students towards understanding grammar and the time allotment as differed from face-to-face instruction b. the credibility issues in answering activities in the worksheets, c. problems on poor access to an internet connection, d.lack of exposure to social media platforms, e. defiance of assessment's purpose due to module formats, f. the negative perception of students towards teachers' feedback, g. the issue on too many workloads affecting the consistency of systematic release and retrieval of the module; and lastly, h. the maintenance of attention span versus many disturbances. Additionally, the prospects gathered from the responses of the participants which are implied to be advantageous to grammar teaching are: a. the use of explicit approach, b. the offering of other learning activities/channels to cater to different skills of the students, c. the giving of feedbacks in a different manner such as written or face-to-face consultation and progress reports, d. the setting of consultation schedules and meeting deadline of submissions, and lastly, e. the use of online platforms. In conclusion, the researcher recommends the meditation of the advancement of technological tools among the schools. Teaching approaches, as well, which are useful in modular distance learning, namely, the use of step-by-step presentation of concepts in the format of the module, and the practice of other modes of giving feedback to students such as counselling rather than massive written feedback, which demotivates students.
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