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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of…
Hongbo Qi
As a goal of education and an effective approach to educational practice, learner autonomy is an integral part of learning of any kind. This survey aims at firstly confirming the results of previous study in the literature, and secondly disclosing more beside…
Parimah Javanmardi, Ryan Spring, Satoshi Uehara
Talmy’s cognitive-semantic typology divides languages based on how path and manner of motion are generally encoded, but recently some studies have suggested that the original typology needs re-examining either by adding a new type (e.g., Slobin, 2004) or usin…
Yuxuan Zhou
What makes English such a globally prominent language? As we all know, the English vocabulary is huge! However, what makes English such a globally prominent language? The reason is English borrowing words from many different languages. English borrows the mos…
Lin Yu
As a prototypical verb complex in Mandarin, “V + Dào” construction experiences a wide debate across semantics, morphology, syntactics, pragmatics, and grammaticalization as well. This paper presents a critical review of “V + Dào” construction with its own spe…
Huijun Ren, Xing Wang, Yi Ling, Junhua Shi
Strengthening international cooperation is inseparable from business negotiations and translation is necessary in the process of business negotiation. From the framework of Bourdieu’s Mode on Sociological Translation Studies, the paper explores the applicatio…
Tuyet-Nhung Nguyen, Dien Dinh
A growing body of evidence suggests groups of people have their unique writing style, e.g., language use of females-males, the elderly-the youth, and so on. However, previous studies of Vietnamese texts have not dealt with language use associated with authors…
Ruwen Zhang, John Hope
A good IELTS (The International English Language Testing System) result is the evidence of non-native speakers’ language proficiency for entering foreign universities, so attaining the required score in each band of the IELTS is extremely important for Chines…
Yuwei Wan
East Asian ESL students in the United States are frequently perceived as reticent, timid, and unsociable in class activities and discussions. The article reports a literature review investigating the possible causes of the actual condition of East Asian stude…
Hadeel Abuthoraya, Khulood Shmasneh
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is an autobiography of Mourid Barghouti, an honest and patriot Palestinian poet and writer, considered a classical memoir; it takes up the story of Barghouti’s return to Palestine with his son, Tamim. On the other hand, it ta…
Pucheng Wang, Zuogong Zhang
This study investigated how 16 English as a Foreign Language writers constructed meaning from texts through reading and for texts through writing in responding to a source-based writing task. Results showed that most of the writers engaged in selecting, organ…
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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