Abstract:This paper presents a preliminary study on parental verbal abuse on children,exploring its characteristics,causes and harms.The study is meant to help achieve a better understanding of verbal abuse and elimin...
This study explores the role of video listening texts in ESL listening comprehension.The statistics obtained from the experiment in the current study reveal that the visual aids have positive effects on comprehension ...
In this paper,the author makes a hypothesis that negative transfer from L1(Mandarin Chinese) has an effect on EFL learners' pronunciation of the two English interdentals /θ/ and //.To analyze this hypothesis the au...
This paper introduces the classification of ambiguity in English, analyzes its causes especially from the lexical semantic perspective by illustrating two types of lexical ambiguity attributable to the existence of ho...
The paper summarizes the characteristic features of the "Theatre of the Absurd" ,and studies on how these characteristics are embodied in the play "Waiting for Godot" from three perspectives-plot,language and theme.