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| Coleridge?s colonial interest in Abyssinian Christianity | Coleridge?s radical and colonial interests can be explored in his 1790 poems as sites of power and resistance. As a product of the complex discursive web of the 18th century, the Orientalist Coleridge could not act out of such historical forces as colonialism that had gone into shaping him and his ...
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| A Local counter-discourse against national education problems: Postcolonial reading of Andrea Hirata?s Laskar Pelangi | This study aims at exploring postcolonial themes raised by Andrea Hirata?s Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors). Specifically, it will reveal the characteristics of hybridity found in the novel that prove this literary work may be categorized as postcolonial writing despite the fact that western or white colonialism has no impact or trace ...
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| The Female artist within the framing narrative in the tenant of wildfell hall | Through the use of narrative analysis of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, it is argued in this paper that by introducing a female artist Bronte is posing questions regarding the experiences of the middle class women of the Victorian era, thus showing how much they were allowed to express their desires ...
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| Compositions in English: Comparing the works of monolinguals, passive bilinguals, and active bilinguals | This study tries to see whether the subjects? "monolingualism" and "bilingualism" (monolinguals learning an L2 and bilinguals learning an L3) influence their study on English, especially writing. The term "bilinguals" also means "multilinguals" in this study. Bilinguals in this paper are classified into two; first, passive bilinguals who are only exposed to another local language, besides ...
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| Style of Obama?s inauguration speech | This paper is to find out how Obama?s inauguration speech addresses the confidence of the new President to cope with the domestic problems and renew the American role in the world in terms of its theme, plot structure, linguistic and stylistic categories. The theme expressing the historically-rooted confidence to remake the nation and the world ...
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| Mathematics textbooks of primary 1uUsed in Singapore: A Multimodal analysis of its intersemiosis | Mathematical discourse deploys three semiotic resources at the same time ? language, symbolism and visual images. It is unique in how it presents mathematical concepts and relations, which are mostly abstract concepts. This paper analyses how these resources collaborate to explain mathematical concepts to Primary 1 students in Singapore. As these students are at the beginning ...
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| The Reflection of the Javanese cultural concepts in the politeness of Javanese | Every language may have some entities which may not be owned by another language. The uniqueness of a language is strongly influenced by the culture of its native speakers. Therefore, languages vary cross-culturally. I strongly believe that the way the Javanese people (one of the Indonesian ethnic groups) express politeness is also influenced by the Javanese ...
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| Stylistic analysis of Roald Dahl?s Cinderella | The paper presents a stylistic analysis of a rhyme, Cinderella, taken from Dahl?s rhyme collection, Revolting Rhymes. Roald Dahl is famous for his ability in creating extraordinary stories, in which linguistic elements, such as sounds and words, are manipulated to create an amusing story that has an unpredictable plot. The discussion covers an analysis of the ...
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| Acknowledging learner multiple identities in the EFL classroom | Students in any educational settings represent a wide array of social and cultural identities: as men/women, as foreigners or locals, as native speakers or non-native speakers, as individuals with particular beliefs, as members of families, organization, ethnic groups or society at large. Despite their multiple identities, English language pedagogy continues to subsume these diverse identities into ...
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| Consistency of hemispheric accuracy in inferring sentences and dialogs | Broca?s and Wernicke?s discovery concerning brain language function remains debatable. The research questions: a) Is there a significant difference of accuracy among the rh, the lh, and the rh-lh in inferring auditory sentences? b) Which hemisphere shows the highest accuracy? and c) Do the rh, lh and rh-lh show consistent hemispheric accuracy when inferring sentences and ...
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| Identity and cultural recognition in the curriculum: A Rationale | Culture has become an important component that is addressed in a variety of contexts from the teaching of a language (Baker, 2003), educational equality (Gay, 1997; 2000), to politics and cultural identities (Llosa, 2008; Muller, 2008; Goshgarian, 1998). Empirical and theoretical research shows that students perform better and are more academically and socially successful when their ...
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| Error analysis in the teaching of English | The main purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of error analysis in the teaching of English as a foreign language. Although errors are bad things in learning English as a foreign language, error analysis is advantageous for both learners and teachers. For learners, error analysis is needed to show them in ...
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| Language and culture in relation to intercultural communication in a business context | Intercultural communication; that is, face-to-face communication between people from different cultural background, often has hindrances because of some factors such as the vocabulary, the discourse pattern and the concept of time. Thus, this paper will analyze how these factors can hinder the intercultural communication between the Asians and Americans and what might become the result ...
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| How English intensive course program affects the English proficiency of students of teachers? colleges in Indonesia | This article reports the implementation of the English Intensive Course (IC) program and examines its effectiveness in improving the English proficiency of the students of the English departments in eight teachers? colleges. IC program is a one-semester course with 18 credits. The instructional materials of this program were specifically-organized and used in an integrated manner. ...
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| The Contradiction of certainty and uncertainty in Hedging and its implications to language teaching | Hedging offers a contradiction in a way that it was "uncertain" words or phrases which in fact show certainty or accuracy. Second language learners need to learn to hedge appropriately in the second language in order not to sound rude or blunt.
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| The Feminism and femininity of Ann Veronica in H. G. Wells? Ann Veronica | H.G. Well's Ann Veronica structurally seems to be divided into two parts; the first deals with Ann Veronica's struggle to get equality with men and freedom in most aspects of life, such as in politics, economics, education, and sexuality; the second describes much the other side of her individuality which she cannot deny, namely ...
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| Iago and the ambiguity of his motives in Shakespeare's othello | Iago?s motives for vengeance are problematic as Iago offers different motives throughout the play. Shakespeare scholars have attempted to explain some probable answers for the problem. Yet, none of the answers is definite that Iago?s motives remain vague. This paper explores the ambiguity of Iago?s motives by negating Iago?s explanations, as they do not correspond ...
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| The Implementation of EMI (English Medium Instruction) in Indonesian Universities: its opportunities, its threats, its problems, and its possible solutions | In this paper, I attempt to find out whether EMI (English Medium Instruction) can be an effective means of enhancing students? and teachers? language proficiency at university (bilingualism) and whether bilingualism necessarily leads to biliteracy. In addition, I would like to propose a model on which a smooth transition to a full EMI implementation can ...
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| An Exploratory study of lecturers views of out-of-class academic collaboration among students | academic collaboration (OCAC) among students at a large Singapore university. Two types of OCAC were investigated: collaboration initiated by students, e.g., groups decide on their own to meet to prepare for exams, and collaboration required by teachers, e.g., teachers assign students to do projects in groups. Data were collected via one-on-one interviews with 18 faculty ...
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