This paper reviews the present state of academic and medical knowledge on the problems that children encounter in acquiring both language and literacy, and concludes that we need to face the issues on other fronts than ...

Linguistic landscape (LL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the significance of words, images and other artifacts represented and displayed in public spaces (Shohamyand Gorter, 2009). Such instances ...

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context ...

This study set out to explicate, through a grounded-theory methodology, the ways in which learners (n=30) were negotiating the constituent parts of written Standard English (SE) periphrastic verb forms. The research questions ...

When looking to obtain insights from data, and given numerous possible data sources, there are certain quality criteria that retrieved data from selected sources should exhibit so as to be most fit-forpurpose. An effective ...

This study seeks to defend the song as a method applied to the teaching of English may prove interesting in the construction of knowledge, enabling even better development of reading in English. The study of foreign ...

It is generally accepted that the native speaker's grammatical competence differs from his performance, as the speech act is influenced by memory limitations, distractions, and slips of the tongue. However, because this ...