This paper explores the current trends in the popularity of youth fantasy books, expecially Joan K Rowling`s Harry Potter series (1997) and seeks to investigate the educational implication of the images reflected in the children`s fantasy books Fantasy should be understood as a medium of illuminating another level of interpretation to understand its appeal and popularity..
This paper aims to explore Browning`s early attempt to comprehend the meaning of God through intense reading of Paracelsus Browning revealed his Christian belief through the dramatic dialogue in which the characters, Paracelsus, Festus, Michael and April expressed their conscious and subconscious personal cosmic concerns In this experimentally dramatic poem, Browning ..
Research on language anxiety to date has centered on the association between anxiety and the oral aspects of language use Little is known about the relationship between anxiety and reading which plays a substantial role in a foreignsecond language curriculum This paper reports on a study that explored the complex nature of reading anxiety of an advanced-level ESL student The..
Throughout his career Blake develops the theme of marriage in various ways He is profoundly interested in re-visioning and re-presenting the male-female relationship as is acknowledged by virtually every commentator on his work Especially in the radical literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the proper individual roles, and the social function ..
This paper is devoted to the semantic behavior of null pronouns and overt pronouns As observed earlier, both overt pronouns and null pronouns in Korean can take split antecedents Such a fact suggests that Korean has two types of pronouns allowing split antecedents Likewise, English pronouns, Korean overt pronouns, and Korean null pronouns with respect to demonstrative use..
It has been reported that quantified expressions are interpreted differently depending on the scope interaction of a quantifier and a wh-phrase For example, a subject wh-question type like `Who pulled everyone` only allows an individual interpretation, whereas an object wh-question type like `Who did everyone pull` allows both pair-list and individual interpretations Pre..
In this paper we have delved into the compensatory lengthening in English history by means of Sympathy Theory(McCarthy 1999) subsumed with Richness of the Base(Smolensky 1993) In the case of CVC CL, triggered by the adjacent consonant deletion, we revise the early Optimality Theory (Smolensky 1993) and accept Sympathy Theory and moraic conservation within a syllable ..
When we discuss foreign language instruction in the classroom, it is of critical importance to articulate its context before the consideration of actual teaching methodologies It is assumed in this study that three variables of learner, sociocultural environment, and instructor are the most important ones among those consisting of a foreign language classroom Moreover, th..
This study examines Koreans` production of syntactically ambiguous English sentences with the scope of negation and focus adverbs In the previous study done by Hirschberg and Avesani (1997) English speakers disambiguate scope of negation by varying the phrasing of the ambiguous sentence Target utterances produced with wide scope rarely contain phrase boundaries, whereas..
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and develop the curriculum for English Education Departments in Korean universities Most curricula offered by English Education Departments in Korea were revised to meet the educational needs for prospective teachers in 1990s The time has come to check if past graduates of these English Education programs are satisfied with the ed..
This essay attempts to extend and critically sublate Jameson`s historicist understanding of narrative texts by engaging the theoretical underpinning that runs through the expansive range of his investigative endeavors namely, his central hypothesis that History is the experience of Necessity The notion of historical inevitability or History as Necessity is limited, I a..
As a playwright, a director and an actor, Harold Pinter knows well the theatrical technique and its function for the play The distinctive elements in Pinter`s dramatic techniques are characterized by `room image` and `Pinteresque` where his recurring themes of menaceviolenceintrusion, silencepauseblackout, memory and the (latent) psychological needs, etc are revealed H..
Literature has been mystified by the Western modern discourses which disregard the socio-historical conditions and signifying processes of literary texts Providing obvious subjects, the realist texts incorporate their readers into the existing social order But in the anti-humainst theories, the human subject is not given but constructed through the linguistic, discurisv..
In Travesties, Tom Stoppard mixes realities with fictions, and repeatedly questions the true nature of reality But, he doesn`t give any answers or clues for it In the ending, there is no resolution to the conflicts which can be generally expected Instead, new conflicts are brought forth, and readersspectators become more and more confused In short, Travesties well embodies..
The notion of language transfer would enable us to set up a reasonable hierarchy of difficulty in learning It is presumed that instances of positive transfer would lend themselves to easier mastery than those of negative or zero transfer With respect to generative grammar that regards grammar as a set of rules, we can predict the degree of difficulties inherent in the types o..