CHILDREN'S DEVELOPING AWARENESS OF THE COMPLEX MEANINGS OF THE "SLEEP VERBS"

This study aimed at examining the semantic acquisition of two sets of converse verbs associated with 'sleep': sleep-get up, fall asleep-wake up by Hebrew speaking children aged 2-12. It was hypothesized that the or...

AN ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL METAFUNCTION IN THAI EFL STUDENTS’ WRITING

As teaching English as a foreign language, it has become obvious that an average Thai is considered to have very low English proficiency. As a result, Thailand may find herself at a disadvantage because of inferior Engli...

A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH HUMANITIES AND BIOCHEMISTRY WRITING WITH RESPECT TO TEACHING UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION

This paper uses Systemic Functional Linguistics to examine how writing differs in both English departments and Biochemistry departments in realization at the lexico-grammatical level; and thus, how the differing writing...

 Managing task-related trouble in L2 oral proficiency tests: constracting interaction data and rater assessment

BRIDGING THE SOCIO-COGNITIVE DIVIDE: RETHINKING THE WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE CONCEPT FROM A CONVERSATION-BASED ELF PERSPECTIVE

Extending earlier research on the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) (e.g., MacIntyre et al., 1998), this paper tests the WTC concept on a secondary school in Singapore where English is used as a lingua franca....