This paper explores the current English vocabulary teaching classroom based on an eco-linguistic perspective and the Markov chain,points out the ecological imbalance in the English vocabulary classroom,and proposes me...
The teaching of vocabulary, the basic unit of language studies, is not an easy task; it requires an understanding of linguistic theory, both micro and macro linguistics. This article is an attempt to explore the theor...
Markedness Theory is one of the most important theories in structural linguistics. Its academic significance has long attracted more scholars and linguists. This paper intends to explore markedness from both formal an...
The text makes some researches about the definition of language. It discusses the development of linguistics from the diachronic point of view. Beginning with the definitions and schools of language, it comes to struc...
The paper is devoted to the study of quantitative methods in linguistics and describes the studies conducted. The purpose is to give the general idea of these studies. The first one considers one of the principal logi...
Following the author's own experiencing in supervising Ph.D. theses in literature, languages, linguistics, and teacher education, the author will focus on new trends of advanced research projects that have been contr...
A comprehensive overview of standardized testing system for ESL (English as a Second Language) students in U.S kindergarten thru grade 12 public school system is reviewed within the context of basis on federal and s...
J. C. Catford is a world-renowned British linguist and translation theorist, and also an outstanding representative of the linguistic school of translation. His famous work A linguistic theory of translation was first...
Neither structural linguistics nor behaviorist linguistics can explain how children acquire their mother tongue reasonably, so Noam Chomsky founds mental linguistics. According to the theory of the mental linguistics,...
This paper focuses on the influence of linguistic theories on the teaching of English as a foreign language and discusses how language teachers can benefit from different branches of linguistics.