It cannot be denied that the ultimate aim of L2 teaching/learning is to produce functionally competent performers who are not at a disadvantage, or short, of grammatical equipments. However, undue focus on meaning or ...

The present study investigates the problem of the pragmatic failure of third year students of English in the universities of Mila, Constantine, Guelma, Annaba, and Jijel in performing the speech acts of thanking and ...

Students’ first language has always a role to play in second language acquisition. In writing, the first language influence is manifested at different levels beginning with vocabulary, grammar and mechanics and ending up ...

In the light of the rapidly-changing world characterized by globalization, the concept of intercultural communicative competence is introduced to Foreign Language Teaching. This new construct has been propounded to supersede ...

As an extension to previous research in the area of self-referent phenomena in the field of teaching English as a foreign language, the present investigation aims at exploring the academic self-perceptions of Algerian ...

The main aim of this research is to find out the reasons that lead translation students at the Department of Translation, Mentouri University, Constantine 1, to produce pragmatic errors in their translations. Many of ...

The present study examines the role of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) inference of technical words in promoting academic receptive vocabulary size. Moreover, it is interested in the linguistic processes involved in ...