This corpus-based study aims at investigating the similarities and differences that exist between afraid, scared, frightened, terrified, startled, fearful, horrified and petrified. Specifically, it compared and contrasted them in terms of dialectal differences, frequency of occurrence, distribution...
Read More...This paper reports on the findings of a contrastive study that investigates email opening and farewell formulas used in two languages, namely, Arabic and English. The sample of the study comprised 100 Arabic and 100 English academic emails. The English data was drawn from the researchers’ mail...
Read More...This study aimed at exploring students’ perceptions towards western culture classes and to uncover the benefits ofthese classes from students’ view points. It also aimed at finding out which language skills and elements have been improved. To achieve these goals, the researchers developed a...
Read More...This study aims to explore the barriers that students encounter while translating proper nouns and to identify the procedures used by the students in the translation process. The researchers have developed a translation test in which twenty students were asked to translate twenty-nine underlined...
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