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Relay Writing Tasks in the EFL Classroom: When Second Language Learning Encounters Collaborative Interactions
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
97-101
Received:
11 October 2021
Accepted:
1 November 2021
Published:
10 November 2021
Abstract: This study presents how EFL learners benefit from the classroom relay writing as a pre-activity in collaborative writing tasks that involve various simultaneously collaborative interactions. An intact 42-student class of freshmen majoring in accounting is divided into four groups. Each group is assigned with a relay writing task with the first sentence available only. The sequential writer of each group writes while checking the previous single sentence. Each group accomplish the task by three steps: individually independent sentence relay writing, in-group text reading, adjusting and reshaping, and between-group text appreciation and evaluation. The composition process is audiotaped and all texts (including both the first and final drafts) are collected and analyzed. And a random interview is followed. The data showed that 1) the writing turned out to be more vivid and inspiring when the participants only know the first sentence and the final drafts appeared in a more logic way with less grammatical and lexical errors, indicating the powerful effect of dialogues between group writers; 2) it could be even more successful when there is a relay writing task as a pre-activity as each individual was assured to make contributions to this writing task no matter how passive or subservient he/she is when involved in a group task; 3) The collaborative writing could be more fulfilling when there were initiator-participants scaffolding the whole task. Furthermore, by observing the accuracy and fluency of the written texts, the pedagogical implications of simultaneous in-group and between-group interactions are illustrated.
Abstract: This study presents how EFL learners benefit from the classroom relay writing as a pre-activity in collaborative writing tasks that involve various simultaneously collaborative interactions. An intact 42-student class of freshmen majoring in accounting is divided into four groups. Each group is assigned with a relay writing task with the first sent...
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Talkey Shows and Press: A Reading Based on Critical Speech Analysis
Maria Stella Galvao Santos
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
102-108
Received:
19 July 2021
Accepted:
2 November 2021
Published:
17 November 2021
Abstract: The purpose of this communication is to analyze President Jair Bolsonaro's pronouncements in his daily contact with reporters outside the Palacio da Alvorada in Brasilia, baptized by his advisors of "Talkey shows". We will focus on two episodes that explain the degree of breakdown in the relationship between journalists and the head of the national executive. The "scoop" episode, aimed at journalist Patrícia Campos Mello, from Folha de S. Paulo, and the bananas offered to reporters by a comedian during a "talkey show", in February and March 2020, respectively. We will use the theoretical tools of Critical Discourse Analysis, a theoretical aspect that postulates the social use of language in interactions in which power relations and domination are established by economic and political groups that use language as a form of social control, through various forms of discursive practices, such as mockery and demonization of the press. We use as theoretical references Van Dijk (1990, 2009, 2011, 2017), Fairclough (2003), Charaudeau (2003, 2015) and Sodré (2017), among others, using linguistic tools to analyze the relationships between language, power and social control. Instead of focusing on purely theoretical issues related to critical discourse analysis, our objective in this article was to examine paradigmatic episodes of the precarious relationship between the Brazilian State President and the press. His cynical, derogatory and misogynistic attitudes towards the journalists' class have decisively contributed, in the Brazilian case, to the demonization of the press among a portion of the Brazilian public opinion.
Abstract: The purpose of this communication is to analyze President Jair Bolsonaro's pronouncements in his daily contact with reporters outside the Palacio da Alvorada in Brasilia, baptized by his advisors of "Talkey shows". We will focus on two episodes that explain the degree of breakdown in the relationship between journalists and the head of the national...
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On SLA Writing: Perspectives from Grammar, Genre, Cognition and Process
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
109-113
Received:
15 November 2021
Accepted:
1 December 2021
Published:
9 December 2021
Abstract: In China, English is not the native language of the students. They lack the opportunity to access the naturalistic manner to acquire the grammatical system of English through hearing it used and through speaking it. At the genre level, students in China lack exposure to different genres of writing with different discourse structures, tones and styles. At the cognitive level, there is the need to develop students' thinking skills. Students traditionally read for information, and they don’t read a text critically to evaluate the validity of claims made or read the text for organization to see how different parts of a text cohere to form a unified whole. Being unable to read critically also leads to being unable to write effectively, manifested by students having problems with selecting, sorting, processing, linking, and organizing ideas purposefully. Revision and incubation are provided as means to help students to clarify, explore, and extend their meaning in writing. In the teaching of English as a foreign language, writing instruction emphasizes four dimensions, namely, grammar, genre, cognition and process. This paper discusses it from four dimensions. The focus of this paper is more on the need to develop students' thinking skills. The research methods of this paper are ones of experience, literature review on writing approaches, critical perspectives, and analytical solutions. The conclusion of this paper is the understanding of SLA writing instruction in aspects of grammar, genre, cognition and process.
Abstract: In China, English is not the native language of the students. They lack the opportunity to access the naturalistic manner to acquire the grammatical system of English through hearing it used and through speaking it. At the genre level, students in China lack exposure to different genres of writing with different discourse structures, tones and styl...
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Assessing Practice and Challenges of Group Work in English Speaking Classroom in Dawro Zone: In the Case of Dali Secondary School
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
114-125
Received:
15 November 2021
Accepted:
11 December 2021
Published:
24 December 2021
Abstract: The English language plays significant roles in various fields. This study was conducted in Dawro Zone Southwest Ethiopia with assessing the practice and challenges of group work in English-speaking classrooms in Dawro Zone with particular reference to Dali Secondary School. The school was selected through purposive sampling technique. To achieve the purpose of this study, a descriptive research design was employed. Moreover, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to report the findings of the study. Similarly, grade 9 and 10 classes were selected through the purposive sampling method. Then, students were selected through simple random sampling of the lottery method, while English language teachers were chosen through comprehensive sampling technique. A total of 222 students and 3 English teachers were selected for this study. To gather relevant data for the study, open and close-ended questionnaires were prepared and used to collect primary data from the respondents. The findings of this study indicated that English teachers did not give clear instruction, motivate, encourage, and give their students appropriate speaking activities as well as they rarely use group work to teach English speaking which in turn impede the practice group work in English speaking classrooms. Moreover, the study reported that students lack confidence, worry to speak in the target language freely and to express their ideas in the language and the opportunity given them to practice English speaking in the group was insufficient and they frequently taught in the teacher-centered method. The suggested solutions were focused on allowing students to speak in class, providing necessary guidance along with immediate feedback for their students after speaking tasks, minimizing students’ nervousness by advising students not to fear of any mistakes since mistakes are learning opportunities, supplying of necessary authentic materials, allocating sufficient time for speaking activities, helping their students overcome shyness by having friendly, helpful and cooperative behaviors to make students feel comfortable when speaking in the class.
Abstract: The English language plays significant roles in various fields. This study was conducted in Dawro Zone Southwest Ethiopia with assessing the practice and challenges of group work in English-speaking classrooms in Dawro Zone with particular reference to Dali Secondary School. The school was selected through purposive sampling technique. To achieve t...
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Social Features of Language of the Characters in Eugene O'Neill's Play "Long Day's Journey into Night"
Hasan Hadi Abu-Krooz,
Majid Mohammed Saadoon
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
126-132
Received:
2 April 2021
Accepted:
15 April 2021
Published:
29 December 2021
Abstract: The social features of language refers to the variety usage of language by variety of people in different situations for different purposes. The model used for this purpose is used to show the deviation within language usage by different people. The present study tries to demonstrate the grammatical and phonological deviations in Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night that help to classify O'Neill's play as a masterpiece in the field of literature. It explores the reasons for these deviations and how this reflects O'Neill's style and philosophy in showing class distinction in his play. To this end, this study will apply two kinds of these deviations (the most distinctive features of class-distinction) according to the theoretical framework proposed by Leech. This research will illustrate the different kinds of linguistic deviations. The previous researches and investigator on linguistic deviations particularly grammatical and phonological deviations concentrated on dramatic texts and discourses. The present study is delimited for the explanation of linguistic deviations into the play Long Day's Journey into Night written by Eugene O'Neill. The study is gained entrance to the qualitative style of investigation which is further particular for the content analysis into textual analysis. This study applies Leech's theory of linguistic deviations in 1969 as a theoretical framework for it. By applying a descriptive method, the data analysis had been executed and the data had been described into words. By doing that the reader will know the role of the write in his society and his contributions trying to reclaim all that diseases in his society at his age.
Abstract: The social features of language refers to the variety usage of language by variety of people in different situations for different purposes. The model used for this purpose is used to show the deviation within language usage by different people. The present study tries to demonstrate the grammatical and phonological deviations in Eugene O'Neill's p...
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The Issue of Environment as Seen Through William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Alidou Razakou Ibourahima Boro,
Ibrahim Yekini,
Fayçal Géronce Josselyn Adechokan
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021
Pages:
133-139
Received:
18 October 2021
Accepted:
8 November 2021
Published:
29 December 2021
Abstract: The issue of environment is a constant concern of nations. Protecting the Protect the environment and keeping safe is the daily concern of many people. Many writers address the issue as the main theme of their work. Still the problem of it protection seems unsolved. William Golding in The Lord of the Flies has made it one of his work concerns. In novel under study the characters are stuck on a tropical island. The weather is not as favorable as it could be for them. It is hot and humid, with periodic storms and torrential rainfall, as is typical of a tropical island. The environment dictated its law to them. It has been used as a tool of exercising violent and savagery acts. Golding argues that human nature, free from the constraints of society, draws people away from reason toward savagery. The main objective of the current research is to try to apprehend the issues of environment portrayed from the beginning to the end of the novel. New criticism has been used to find out some of the reasons why Golding wrote the novel and his portrayal of the negative impacts of the characters’ interactions on the isolated and hostile island.
Abstract: The issue of environment is a constant concern of nations. Protecting the Protect the environment and keeping safe is the daily concern of many people. Many writers address the issue as the main theme of their work. Still the problem of it protection seems unsolved. William Golding in The Lord of the Flies has made it one of his work concerns. In n...
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