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ProQuest's Linguistics Database (LDB), a collection of over 260 journals in linguistics, serves as the full-text complement to the key indexing database Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA). Together, these two resources constitute ProQuest's Linguistics Collection, a suite of products “covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.”Since most of these journals have short backfiles, going back 20 years or less, it is suggested to pair LDB with another product that offers deeper chronological coverage (such as JSTOR).

On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective

This study investigates ( i) whether there has been a shift towards increased statistical focus in corpus linguistic research articles, and, if so, ( ii) whether this has had any repercussions for the attention paid to linguistic description. We investigate this through an analysis of the relative focus on statistical reporting versus linguistic description in the way the results are reported and discussed in research articles published in four major corpus linguistics journals in 2009 and 2019. The results display a marked change: in 2009, a clear majority of the articles exhibit a preference for linguistic description over statistical reporting; in 2019, the exact opposite is true. The number of different statistical techniques employed has also gone up. Whilst the increased statistical focus may reflect increased methodological sophistication, our results show that it has come at a cost: a diminished focus on linguistic description, evident, for example, through fewer text excerpts and linguistic examples, which appears to be symptomatic of increasing distance from the language that is the object of study. We discuss these shifts and suggest some ways of employing sophisticated statistical techniques without sacrificing a focus on language.

MAPPING RESEARCH ON L2 PRONUNCIATION

AbstractThis study reports on a bibliometric mapping analysis of L2 pronunciation research. Analyses on 629 articles published between 1977 and 2020 in 15 prestigious SSCI-indexed applied linguistics journals identified significant research themes and trends, influential authors, documents, and publication sources. The results of the analyses of citation impact, cocitation, and research trends provide valuable insights into understanding the dynamics, evolution patterns, and the intellectual background of L2 pronunciation research, thereby guiding future research and practice.

Research trends of blended language learning: A bibliometric synthesis of SSCI-indexed journal articles during 2000–2019

AbstractThis study aims to synthesize research trends of blended language learning studies over the past two decades, from 2000 to 2019. Data were collected from the Web of Science, and a total of 60 SSCI-indexed journal articles were retrieved for bibliometric synthesis. Drawing on the revised technology-based learning model, participants, learning strategies, research methods, research foci, adopted technologies, and application effectiveness, advantages, and challenges were addressed. The findings demonstrated that publications were increasing rapidly, and that most articles were published in computer-assisted language learning, educational technology, and applied linguistic journals. The most common target language was English as a foreign language, and the most common learners were college students. In most studies, technologies were mainly used for the purposes of practice or exercises. Mixed, quantitative, and qualitative methods were frequently adopted, with a particular eye on the experiment design, questionnaires, and other specific methods in the second decade. Productive language skills, along with autonomy, satisfaction, and motivation, were major research foci. Language management systems and computer and web-based applications were frequently adopted technologies. Findings of application effectiveness, advantages, and challenges were summarized.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKERS OF EMOTIONALITY USED IN EXPRESSION OF EXPERT EVALUATION IN GERMAN AND RUSSIAN REVIEWS IN LINGUISTICS

This article explores the involvement of typographical means in the construction of evaluative meanings in expert scientific discourses. A qualitative context-semantic, axiological, and grapholinguistic analysis was carried out on the basis of 50 German and 50 Russian reviews in linguistics published in the period from 2016 to 2020 in high-ranking academic journals: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Problems of Onomastics, Russian Journal of Linguistics, and Topics in the study of language. During the course of the study, typographical emotionality markers used by the authors of linguistic reviews were identified and classified. Conclusions are drawn regarding the involvement of the selected units in the typical evaluation strategies in linguistic reviews. Particular attention is paid to cases of communicative-functional transposition of visual-graphic emotionality markers. The prospects for future research include an investigation of a wider number of reviews chosen for the corpus in order to collect statistical data for aquantitative comparative analysis of typographically marked expert-evaluative statements. The novelty of the study is in the discussion of typographical means relevant for the texts that ensure effective professional communication in academia. The means of this nature are still insufficiently covered in the publications of Russian researchers. The results presented in this paper can contribute to the further study of the text types of scientific discourse in an interlingual and intercultural perspective and particularly to the study of the interaction of linguistic and typographical features used to construct an author’s identity in context.

The Dickens Checklist

The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online ressources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available at dickenssociety.org, and will be updated once a year. Dominic Rainsford Aarhus University Primary Sources Dickens, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. Edited by Daniel Tyler, Oxford UP, 2021. Oxford World’s Classics. [Previously published in hardback, 2015.] Google Scholar Secondary Sources: Biography and Criticism Alexander, Sam. “Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, and The Wire.” Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 315–43. [BH] Google Scholar Alshwayyat, Ali Mahmoud Ali, et al. “Psychological Compassion as Portrayed in Dorothea in Eliot’s Middlemarch and Louisa in Dickens’ Hard Times.” Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 11, no. 10, Oct. 2021, pp. 1181–86, doi:10.17507/tpls.1110.05. Google Scholar Alzouabi, Lina Taysir. “A Reading of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times (1854) as a Crime Novel.” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, vol. 4, no. 4, Apr. 2021, pp. 193–99, al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/ijllt/article/view/1569/1359. Google Scholar ———. “Social Environment and Crime in Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.” International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, vol. 4, no. 6, June 2021, pp. 163–70, al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/ijllt/article/view/1826/1529. Google Scholar Bell, Katie. “The Tell-Tale Sign of the Dickensian Influence: Dickens and Poe.” Dickens Society Blog, 29 Oct. 2021, dickenssociety.org/archives/3383. Google Scholar Camlot, Jason. Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings. Stanford UP, 2019. [Ch. 2: “Charles Dickens in Three Minutes or Less: Early Phonographic Fiction”] Google Scholar Cheslow, Erin. “Oral Storytelling as a Transnational Aesthetic in the Industrial Novel.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class, edited by Gloria McMillan, Routledge, 2021, pp. 333–44. [DS] Google Scholar Cubeta, Germana. “Dickens’s Fairness in Describing Italian Complexity.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class, edited by Gloria McMillan, Routledge, 2021, pp. 202–19. Google Scholar Dickens Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, Dec. 2021. [Dominic Rainsford, Trey Philpotts, Margaret Flanders Darby, and Amanda Helm, “In Memoriam: David Paroissien 1939–2021,” pp. 357–64; Elizabeth Wells, “Intellectual Passing and the Co-Authorship of Communal Change in Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge,” pp. 365–87; Melissa McLeod, “Hearing Ghosts in Dickens’s David Copperfield,” pp. 388–410; Jian Choe, “Van Gogh and Hard Times,” pp. 411–28; Daniel Stuart, “No shadow of another parting”: Unrequited Love, Stalking, and Dickens’s Rejected Men,” pp. 429–51; William F. Long, “‘It is said that Dickens is Insane’: Documenting a Rumor,” pp. 452–66; William F. Long, “A Drunken Cabman at Charles Dickens’s,” pp. 467–70; Tabitha Sparks, review of The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy, by Andrew Mangham, pp. 471–73; Dominic Rainsford, review of The Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory, by Margaret Flanders Darby, pp. 474–78; Sara Malton, “The Fifty-Second Annual Dickens Society Meeting,” pp. 484–85; Susan Cook, “Dickens Society Treasurer’s Report for the Fiscal Year 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021, pp. 486–87; Dominic Rainsford, “The Dickens Checklist,” pp. 491–95.] Google Scholar The Dickensian, vol. 117, part 3, no. 515, Winter 2021. [Emily Bell, “From the Editor,” pp. 225–27; William F. Long, “‘A Young and Unknown Writer’: Documenting the Arrival in Public Print of ‘Charles Dickens,’” pp. 228–45; Wayne S. B. Jackson, “Charles Dickens’s Association with Goodwin’s Oyster Store, 295 Strand,” pp. 246–52; Michael Steele, “‘The little piece of business between the Sun and myself ’: Dickens’s Early Experiences with Photography,” pp. 253–70; Mizuki Tsutsui, “The Absent Reader in David Copperfield,” pp. 271–80; Paul Graham, “Anthony Powell as Dickens Critic and Parodist,” pp. 281–89; Leonee Ormond, “Dickens and Marcus Stone,” pp. 290–300; Robert Butterworth, review of Dickens and the Bible: “What Providence Meant,” by Jennifer Gribble, pp. 301–02; Robert Laurella, review of Spectral Dickens: The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization, by Alexander Bove, pp. 303–04; Robert L. Patten, reviews...

Editorial

The present issue of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching is the last in the 2021 volume and concludes the eleventh year of the existence of the journal. Looking back, it has been an exceptionally good year for SSLLT. First, we have been receiving a constantly increasing number of submissions and, what is of paramount importance for any journal, most of these submissions have been of very high quality. Second, we are very happy with the scope and quality of the papers that have been published, including those comprising the special issue on teaching English reading and writing to young learners, which was guest-edited by Barry Lee Reynolds and Mark Feng Teng. Third, and perhaps most importantly, not only has SSLLT been finally indexed in the Web od Science, but it is also listed among the 20 best journals in linguistics (18/193), with the impact factor of 3.036 (Q1) (JCR). Achieving this status has been a long and arduous process but at the same time an extremely rewarding journey. Obviously, this undeniable success would not have been possible without all of those who have lent their support to the development of SSLLT from the get-go. My sincere thanks go to Associate Editors, all the guest editors of special issues, members of the Editorial Board, the many hundreds of reviewers and, first and foremost, to all the amazing authors who have chosen SSLLT as a venue for their work. I can assure all of you that we will not be resting on our laurels and will do everything in our power to keep up the good work to further enhance the position of SSLLT in the field. We are also hoping to be able to celebrate its success with a face-to-face conference to be held in Kalisz, Poland in October 2022. We are currently working on the call for papers and we are planning to send it out in the next month or so.

Inter and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals

This study investigates intersentential and intrasentential code switching among late bilinguals among the Kurdish bilinguals. enormous studies have been conducted on the impact of age of language acquisition on learning second language, however a little research have been conducted concerning to the influence of age of acquisition on how bilingual speakers code switch and the influence of language proficiency on intersentential and intrasentential code switching. The result found out that that age of acquisition plays a crucial role in bilingual code switch. Early bilinguals code switch more frequently than the late bilinguals, intersentential code switching is more common among late bilinguals, whilst intrasentenial code switching is more trend among the early bilinguals. Reference: Ali, Barzan Jaafar (2019) Grammatical aspect of code switching in Farsi-English bilingual speech. University of Sussex, UK. PhD thesis Chan, B. and Hock-Shing. (2015) A diachronic-function approach to explaining grammatical patterns in code-switching: Postmodification in Cantonese English noun phrase. International Journal of Bilingualism. Sage publication. Cheng, L. and Butler, K. (1989) Code-switching: A natural phenomenon vs. language ‘deficiency.’ World English. Di Sciullo, A., Muysken, P., & Singh, R. (1986) Code-mixing and government, Journal of Linguistics. Eppler, Eva. (2010) The Syntax of German-English Code-Switching. Braumüller. Evangelia Adamou and Rachel Shen (2019) There are no language switching costs when code switching is frequent. International Journal of Bilingualism, SAGE Publications. Flege, J. E. (1999) Age of learning and second language speech. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Hans Voggt. 1954. Language Contacts. Word Hartshorne, J.K, Tenenbaum, J. B, Pinker. S (2018) A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers.” Cognition vol. 177: 263-277. Labov, W (1977) Language in the inner city: studies in the black-English vernacular. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Lipski, J. M. (1985) Linguistic Aspects of Spanish-English Language Switching. Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies. MacSwan, J (1999) minimalist approach to intrasentential codeswitching. New York, Garland Publishing Muysken, P (1995) Grammatical concepts in code-switching. One speaker, two languages: Cross disciplinary perspective on code-switching. Muysken, P (2000) Bilingual speech: A typology of code mixing. Cambridge university press. Myers-Scotton, C.1993. Duelling languages: grammatical structure in code switching. Oxford: clarendon press. Nishimira, M (1986) Intra-sentential code-switching: The case of language assignment. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Pfaff (1979) Constraints on language mixing: Intrasentential code-switching and borrowing in Spanish/English. Poplack, S (1980) Sometimes I’ll Start a Sentence in Spanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAÑOL: Toward a Typology of Code-Switching1’. Linguistics, vol.18. Sankoff, D, and Poplack, S (1981) A Formal Grammar for Code‐switching 1. Linguistics, vol. 14. Sankoff, G (2001) Linguistic outcomes of language contact. Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell. Stenson, N (1990) Phrase structure congruence, government and Irish- English code switching. San Diego: Academic Press. Toribio, A.J (2001) On the Emergence of Bilingual Code-Switching Competence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol. 4. Weinreich, U (1953) Languages in Contact. The Hague: Mouton

Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda

This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from international authors, critically reflect on constructions, functions and pragmatic purposes of emotions in media discourse. Our aim is to investigate emotions in the media from semiotic, pragmatic and discursive perspectives against the contemporary socio-political background in which traditional notions concerning the role of media are being noticeably changed. In this introductory article, we also put forward an agenda for further research by briefly outlining three main areas of exploration: the logics of media production and reception , the boundaries of media discourse, and the semiotic resources deployed to construct emotionality . We then present the articles in this issue and highlight their contributions to the study of linguistic representations of emotions. We then summarise the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

The Comparison of Evaluative That Clauses in Turkish L2 Novice and Expert Writers' Abstracts

How authors adopt a stance and connect with their readers has gotten a lot of attention in the literature and is now a significant part of many ESP courses. What Hyland and Tse (2005b) call ‘evaluative that’ is a primarily underappreciated interpersonal trait. By placing a complement clause within a superordinate sentence, this form allows authors to build authorial stance and explicitly evaluate their own or others' work. It is an important way of giving authorial feedback and assessment when comparing the use of the structure in student and expert abstracts in applied linguistics. The current work explores two corpora comprising 40 abstracts from masters theses and dissertations by Turkish L2 graduate students in the U.S., and 70 abstracts by published research studies in two applied linguistics journals. It was discovered that evaluative that is less commonly used in these abstracts by the novice Turkish L2 graduate students than the published scholars. Although both groups used the structure similarly to a large extent, novice writers presented some peculiar traits concerning the specific uses of the structure. The results of the study give hints about the authorial voice of the expert and L2 novice writers by looking at what writers decided to assess, the viewpoints they adopted, the source they ascribed the stance to, and how they presented their judgments.

Diachronic delta: A computational method for analysing periods of accelerated change in literary datasets

Abstract In his recently published book Distant Horizons (2019), Ted Underwood argues that literary change takes place incrementally. By analysing a dataset of English language fiction obtained from the digital research library HathiTrust, Underwood demonstrates that from the early 18th to the 21st century, literature written in English evinces a steady increase in words associated with physical description, concrete nouns as well as sensory perception and that this increase is accompanied by a proportional decrease in words associated with politics, economics as well as religion (Underwood 25). This article represents an effort to test Underwood’s incremental hypothesis by operationalizing Peter W.H. Smith and W. Aldridge’s cosine distance-based emendation to John Burrows’ ‘Delta’ method (Smith, P. W. H. and Aldridge, W. (2011). Improving authorship attribution: optimising burrows’ delta method. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 18(1): 63–88). By applying cosine Delta across time rather than as it is conventionally applied, across text (Evert, Stefan et al. Understanding and Explaining Delta Measures for Authorship Attribution. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32 (suppl_2) (2017): ii4–ii16), we can identify particular years as being associated with extensive amounts of ‘novelty’ (which years introduce the most amount of distance from their predecessors) and also possess extensive amounts of ‘resonance’ (are relatively proximate to their successors). According to Alexander T.J. Barron et al.’s method for analysing the parliamentary debates of the French revolution, agents within a dataset which have high amounts of novelty and high amounts of resonance are both innovative and influential, as they are significantly different from the years which come before and relatively similar to the years which come after. We might refer to these years as ‘breaks’ and contrast their behaviour with the longue-durée approach otherwise prevalent within the computational literary studies discourse. Though, as this article demonstrates, Underwood’s hypothesis of incremental change remains robust when considering the changes which come over the novel from the mid-18th to the early 20th century, applying this method to poetic and dramatic production over the same period of time, thereby examining the distinct ways in which novelty and resonance behave, allow us to modulate Underwood’s hypothesis and to understand literary history within a more conjunctural framework.

Citation Practices in Applied Linguistics Research Articles: A Comparison of International and Iranian Journals

In academic writing, citation employs different phraseological patterns to serve a number of significant functions. The purpose of this study was to examine the citation practices in Iranian and international applied linguistics journals to determine how differently or similarly the two groups of journals use the citation in their writings. The data consisted of a corpus of 120 articles published by Iranian and international applied linguistic journals. WordSmith Tools (Scott, 2009) computer software was used to extract the citation patterns in different sections of the articles. Then, employing Petric’s (2007) and Thompson and Trimble’s (2001) frameworks, the phraseological patterns and rhetorical functions of citation practices were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results showed that Iranian researchers, unlike international researchers, tended to use integral citations by emphasizing the writers rather than information; yet, international researchers preferred non-integral citations. The results also revealed that there is a relationship between articles sections and the type of citations applied. Moreover, the analysis of citations based on Petric's (2007) framework demonstrated that Iranian and international writers prefer using attribution function. In conclusion, the study argued that the phraseological patterns used to report these functions should receive more attention to avoid plagiarism.

Newman, Paul & Roxana Ma Newman: Hausa Dictionary: Hausa-English English-Hausa, Ƙamusun Hausa: Hausa-Ingilishi/Ingilishi-Hausa

Article Newman, Paul & Roxana Ma Newman: Hausa Dictionary: Hausa-English English-Hausa, Ƙamusun Hausa: Hausa-Ingilishi/Ingilishi-Hausa was published on October 1, 2021 in the journal Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (volume 42, issue 2).

Bridging the Gap: A New Publication Dedicated to Languages and Human Communication Has Been Launched

Launching a second peer-reviewed journal in the portfolio [1] of our Kyiv-based publishing house, we proud to collaborate with a scientist like Igor Fesenko, ScD from Kyiv, Ukraine [2, 3]. He’s taken the responsibility to continue the development of the addressing and communication security direction initiated by Prof. Margaret Schlauch (1976) [4]. Igor Fesenko contributed to the languages and addressing direction by plenty of articles and textbooks, and now it is a time of Linguistic Cues to Social Meaning (LCSM) journal. The journal is starting its way as English-language open access online-only and peer-reviewed publication. All the advantages of such publishing model are discussed in recent studies [5–8]. Also, despite of being a semiannual publication, the LCSM, will have a possibility to publish articles in an article in press status as soon as the manuscripts will be accepted. In the journal we will use a modified American Psychological Association (APA) reference style which is common for social sciences publications. Among which there are three top language and linguistics journals: (1) The Modern Language Journal (2021 Impact Factor [IF] is 7.500), (2) Language Learning (2021 IF is 5.240), and (3) Research on Language and Social Interaction (2021 IF is 4.158). Cover page of the journal and its original photograph (Fig) is demonstrating the highly populated and multicultural city of Hong Kong from the coffeehouse window as of March 2017. The provisional estimate of the Hong Kong population was 7,409,800 at end-2017 according to the statistics released by the Census and Statistics Department, The Government of the Hong Kong SAR [9]. The official languages in Hong Kong are Chinese and English. Being one of the key world business, trade, and logistic hubs, Hong Kong and this image clearly represents the possible communication challenges this and other societies could face. The LCSM is created with purpose to guarantee people in different corners of the globe the successful usage of the languages, as a most important life tool, with the maximum number of benefits and increasing personal safety. In summary, we want to wish on behalf of the publishing house staff all the best to newly formed editorial board and to say thank you for leadership in the communication direction.

Emergence and Development of a Research Area in Language Education Policies: Our Contribution to Setting the Grounds for a Local Perspective on Policymaking

This article presents our narration of the emergence and development of a research area about the teaching and learning of the English language in Colombia and the creation of a research group named Critical Studies of Colombian Education Policies. The narration includes a description of the bilingual education policy in Colombia and a literature review of how the themes Different Shades of the Colombian National Plan of Bilingualism and Theoretical and Practical Concerns over Bilingualism have been addressed by authors of local journals, such as How, Profile, Íkala, and Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, in the issues published from 2008 to 2020. The description and literature review link the life stories of our growth as teachers and researchers as related to the research area and research group mentioned above. A final part of the narration refers to our contributions to the ELT field in Colombia through the following two themes: Dimensions of Language Policies: A Political Discourse Perspective and Making Teachers’ Agency Relevant: Bottom-up Approaches to the Study of Language Education Policies.

Citation Quality Analysis in Iranian and International High-rank Journals

In the academic context, a citation is a fundamental aspect of academic writing that helps authors to providing strong argumentation, evaluate and express their attitude towards previous studies. This study aims to investigate the types and functions of citation in the research articles. To this end, a corpus of 60 research articles from 3 high-rank Nursing and Midwifery and Applied Linguistics journals that were written by Iranian scholars (in local journals) and international writers were selected, and their citation patterns were analysed based on Thompson and Tribble’s frameworks (2001). Then, the Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests were run to investigate the similarities and differences in the citation patterns in the selected journals from a statistical point of view. Although the corpus-based analysis revealed that the Iranian journal articles had a higher density of citations than international journal articles, the international scholars utilised all citation patterns. The results of this study could be used effectively by EAP teachers, students, and novice scholars to improve the understanding of theoretical and practical dimensions of citation patterns in the fields of medical and humanities sciences.

Evaluative Language in Conclusion Sections of Vietnamese Linguistic Research Articles

Evaluative language has recently been of great concern as, according to Hunston, “evaluation is one of the most basic and important functions of language worth studying deeply” (2011, p. 11). However, the term seems to be rather new in Vietnamese linguistic community. In order to shed further light on the use of evaluative language in Vietnamese, this article is to examine how evaluative language is exploited by Vietnamese linguists in the conclusion section of their research articles. This study combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyse the ways explicit evaluative language is used in the corpus of 30 Vietnamese empirical research articles in three reputable journals of linguistics in Vietnam. More specifically, the study investigates various evaluative acts classified in the three systems of the Appraisal Framework (by Martin & White, 2005) including Attitude, Engagement and Graduation. Findings are expected to show outstanding patterns of evaluative language used in this section of linguistic research articles such as the salient occurrence of certain evaluative domains or sub-systems, etc. Results of the study are hoped to be of reference for article writers as well as to enrich literature materials for the fields of evaluative language and academic writing pedagogy in Vietnam.

Eʋegbe nyakpemenyi ŋuti nunya ŋu nusɔsrɔ̃ na gɔmedzelawo A study of Ewe phonology for beginners

Article Eʋegbe nyakpemenyi ŋuti nunya ŋu nusɔsrɔ̃ na gɔmedzelawo A study of Ewe phonology for beginners was published on May 1, 2021 in the journal Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (volume 42, issue 1).

The Name of Hate

The Name of Hate

The Active and Passive Voice in the Methods Section of Applied Linguistics Research Articles

The methods section is a critical portion of a research article, which represents the validity and rigor of the overall research design. While previous research has shown a predominance of the passive voice in the research article genre, particularly in the methods section due to its impersonal and explanatory nature (Riley, 1991), recent trends suggests that researchers are increasingly resorting to the active voice in the writing of research article in general (Seoane, 2013). The current study explored whether this trend can be observed in the methods section of applied linguistics research articles and investigated the possible patterns of voice use. The methods sections of 24 articles from international applied linguistics journals were examined to investigate the frequency of voice use and the functional patterns of voice arising, in the corpus. Results suggest that researchers do show alignment with the current trend by actively employing the active voice as well as the passive voice. Functional patterns of voice further revealed that specific discoursal functions within the methods section can be associated with the use of voice. Findings from this study are hoped to serve as the starting point of discussions on the use of voice in particular sections within the research article.