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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…
Hong Duan, Li Gao
This paper aims to explore the synaesthetic truth of taste and smell in particular. Based on the corpus of gustatory and olfactory-synaesthetic cases, classification and statistical tasks are undertaken, in which four main characters are discovered: 1) the pa…
Mohammad Awad AlAfnan
This study investigated politeness in workplace emails that were written in a Malaysian educational institute. It examined the use of politeness strategies in relation to the ethnicity of the communicators, power relations and social distance. Previous resear…
Meilan Jin
Motivation is considered as a key feature in the success of language learning and has great effect on the efficiency and productivity of English language teaching. And a lot of considerable researches and investigations have been done on Chinese college stude…
Nihat Polat, Saban Cepik
In researching the comparison of ESL and EFL programs regarding curriculum mandates and perceptions of program directors and Teacher candidates, this study addresses the following research questions: How different are the competencies that are covered in the…
Joseph Kimoga
Language is about passing on meanings. This implies a speaker’s level of proficiency and fluency and a level of comprehension by the listener. English, a widely used medium, has been deeply researched on in how it is used by non-native speakers to inform nati…
Jun Lin, Aiguo Wang, Changjie Zhang
This paper considers the arguments for the construction of courses in ESP (English for Specific Purposes) focusing on the integration of curriculum design theory into an English course for aircraft engineering at the Civil Aviation University of China. For te…
Marta Vila, M. Antònia Martí, Horacio Rodríguez
A precise and commonly accepted definition of paraphrasing does not exist. This is one of the reasons that have prevented computational linguistics from a real success when dealing with this phenomenon in its systems and applications. With the aim of helping…
Peter Kinyua Muriungi, Miriam Kathomi Mutegi, Mary Karuri
This study investigated wh -question formation in Gichuka, an SVO Bantu language spoken in Kenya. The study established that Gichuka forms wh -question using the four strategies, namely: wh - in situ , full wh -movement, partial wh -movement, and intermediate…
Juliana Vianna da Nobrega
Language can be a powerful tool to convince others and make them cooperative. Cialdini (2007) has worked out several principles along which it is possible to analyze discourses in terms of their persuasiveness. Others also have contributed with tools to analy…
Kelly Arispe
In recent years, the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has made great strides to refocus its attention on the essential role that vocabulary plays in becoming a proficient L2 learner (Nation, 2001) . Moreover, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CAL…
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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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