(RE) CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN A NEW VOICE: THE ROLE OF GENDER IDENTITY IN SLA, THE CASE OF MALAYSIA

This study is a qualitative study of Malaysian children aged between four and six years engaged in a story-telling task. The question posed in this piece of research then: Is the role played by gender in SLA? If it does play a role, what then is the nature of this role? The path taken by this study is to analyze discourse in story-telling

The Effect of Text Authenticity on the Performance of Iranian EFL Students in a C-Test

As part of growing efforts to understand factors affecting c-test this study aims to investigate the effect of text authenticity on the performance of Iranian EFL students in a C-Test. The C-Test is an integrative testing instrument that measures overall language competence, very much like the cloze test. In this study the rule of two has been applied: "the second half of every second word has been deleted, beginning with the second word of the second sentence; the first and last sentences are left intact" (Katona and Dornyei 1993: 35). The research involves 60 college students in their third year, majoring in English Literature at Ershad-Damavand College. This group were randomly selected applying multi-stage sampling. Since the present study intended to investigate the role of two different formats, i.e. authentic and inauthentic texts (text translated from Persian into English), two different tailored C-Tests were made to measure and compare the performances of the participants. Two C-Tests, one with Authentic Text and the other, with Inauthentic Text were administered to this homogenized group comprising 30 subjects. The findings of this study suggest that authenticity has an effect on the performance of learners in c-tests and we should control this variable while devising a c-test

(RE) CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN A NEW VOICE: THE ROLE OF GENDER IDENTITY IN SLA, THE CASE OF MALAYSIA

This study is a qualitative study of Malaysian children aged between four and six years engaged in a story-telling task. The question posed in this piece of research then: Is the role played by gender in SLA? If it does play a role, what then is the nature of this role? The path taken by this study is to analyze discourse in story-telling

Negation in children's literature

For Chomsky, negation is not part of what he calls the “underlying strings” or the deep structure of language, which is tautological, simple, separate, and repetitious. Negation is one of many possible surface transformations into the interrogative, passive, etc. Chomsky calls negation an insertion transformation, one of four elementary transformational operations, and one which adds something to, or inserts something into, the deep structure. This paper examines negation and how it is employed in children’s literature. This study is an exploratory one as the analysis of negation and affirmation is a highly complex one to achieve even in adult literature. Further children’s literature in itself is a complex area. Hence what is attempted in this study is an examination of negation in children’s literature which entails analysis of negation in children’s discourse, adult discourse and children’s literatur

La Négation

Au-delà d’un recensement des divers marqueurs de la négation dans une perspective purement grammaticale, les communications dont nous reproduisons le texte ont cherché à définir la logique de la négation et à analyser l’effectuation de cette opération fondatrice par l’énonciateur. C’est dire que le colloque a fait coexister deux axes essentiels, les auteurs ayant pratiqué, en fonction de leur spécialité, macro-analyses et micro-analyses. Les travaux réunis dans le présent volume s’inscrivent donc dans le cadre d’une analyse textuelle qui suppose l’application au discours littéraire de concepts propres à certaines théories linguistiques et esthétiques