This study investigates Korean college students`` perceptions of implementing communicative language teaching (CLT) in a large EFL class as well as factors influencing their perceptions One hundred twenty-one freshmen, who had low English proficiency, from two intact classes employing CLT for one semester participated in this mixed-methods study Data from pre- and po..
This study investigated the effects of post-reading drawing and writing activities on Korean elementary school students L2 English vocabulary learning and reading comprehension, along with the students`` affective reactions The participants in this study were 16 elementary school students who were enrolled in an education program supported by a local child welfare cen..
In this article, I explore the aspects of the modern woman with regard to the impending imminence of the pre-Civil Rights movements C S Lewiss and Flannery OConnors treatments of women center upon their concepts of evil, upon womens biology and pregnancies, and upon education for women Underneath the literary and cultural contexts of the stories, the victimiz..
Faced with a cold war of ideology and a need to establish strong alliances with Asian countries, in order to confront the expansion of communism, the American government of the 1940s and 50s recognized the need to change its image concerning domestic racism and re-educate its citizenry toward tolerance Reflecting this contextual Cold War need, two works of post-war trave..
In the previous literature on sprouting, most attention has been paid to the elided structure This paper, however, focuses on the remnant of the elided part More specifically, this paper claims that, in sprouting, the wh-phrase, which is the remnant of ellipsis, echoes a cataphoric implicit argument that is locally accommodated to the argument structure of the antecedent cl..
This study investigated how movie-based collocational activities are effective in fostering 57 university learners`` collocation competence By designing a collocational test and eliciting oral responses to explicit formulaic words, this study examined the relative effects of interactive activities and L2 development of constructing pre-fabricated words through teacher-..
This paper is a replication study of previous research, with a different student population, which uses several concepts from Self-Determination Theory (SDT) to examine the classroom motivational orientation of Korean high school EFL students A total of 60 participants from a high school in Incheon took part in this study These students completed the Self-Regulation Que..
This study examines the use of conjunctive adverbials (CAs) in the research articles (RAs) written by American (ENL), Hong KongSingaporean (ESL), and Korean (EFL) scholars Specifically, this study aims to identify and analyze the overall frequency of CAs and usage patterns of the four semantic categories of CAs occurring in the three groups as well as any patterns of..
This paper aims to examine the violence toward Woman and read knot it in the text as a knot for subjectivation through Susan Glaspells Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers Glaspell uses an important device in the two texts the female protagonists absence This paper sees the womans absence as Woman having double meanings First, Woman means the absent woman that is..
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of urban characteristics on the protagonist``s search for self identity in Carlos Bulosans America is in the Heart This novel is a social text in that it deals not only with Filipino American laborers`` lives and revolt but also with the protagonist``s becoming a socialist writer In addition, it is a historiographic socia..
Doris Lessing criticizes British imperialism and colonialism by means of the genre of postcolonial speculative fiction in Mara and Dann and The Story of General Dann and Mara``s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog From the presumed African viewpoints of young Mara and her brother Dann living in Africa(Ifrik in these novels) after thousands of years, Lessing emphasizes the..
This paper examines the way in which V S Naipauls A House for Mr Biswas presents Trinidad, which turns out to be the setting of place in a very limited sense Though it is hard to reach a critical consensus about Naipauls works due to different political positions, most critics have agreed that A House for Mr Biswas is one of his best works The problem is that Trinidad re..
This study explores how the War on Terror affects lives of Americans in Refresh, Refresh, by Benjamin Percy It also shows how important the politics of mourning is in constructing the subjectivity of an individual that has to face violence in post-capitalized society This study introduces two types of the politics of mourning mourning by state apparatus and by ind..
In A Mercy, Toni Morrison imagines possibilities of American subjectivities in amorphous, pre-exceptionalist seventeenth-century America Jacob Vaark, the white master of the new nation, represents the modern liberal subject whose humanism is premised upon the dichotomy between self and other Lina, the survivor of the vanishing Native Americans, proves her resilie..