English Linguistics

This study explores Vietnamese teachers' perceptions and practices of gamification in teaching English to first-year English majors at Thang Long University. The goals of the research are to find out the impacts of gamification on EFL students' learning and some challenges when applying the approach.

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The concept of linguistic capital is pivotal within the sphere of sociolinguistics and has significant implications for the language learning process. Originating from Bourdieu's broader sociological framework which delineates various forms of capital—economic, social, cultural, and symbolic—linguistic capital specifically refers to the mastery of and facility with language that confers power and status within a given social sphere (Bourdieu, 1991).

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This study examines how gamification in grammar instruction affects motivation of adult learners in Vietnamese continuing education programs, concentrating on game features that motivate learning. Two-stage qualitative research was used: narrative frames and semi-structured interviews.

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This study is an additional endeavor to re-emphasize the impact of the systemic functional linguistic genre-based approach (SFL GBA) on teaching English argumentative genres to the third-year English majors, batch 11, at Dong Nai University’s faculty of foreign languages, both in terms of their improved written performances and positive perceptions towards the teaching-learning cycle (TLC).

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This study examines the frequency and function of nominalisation in English scientific discourse (ESD) through an analysis of 33 texts in engineering, biology, medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, geography, history, physics, environmental science, business, and information technology.

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This research analyzed the application of presuppositions in disclosing the information in the speech by the U.S. Secretary of Defense at the Shangri-la Dialogue 2022 through the lenses of Critical Discourse Analysis. With keen observation of the linguistic choices, the research analyzed how presuppositions contribute to revealing the hidden meaning in constructing strategic narratives.

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The linguistic and cultural interconnections between Vietnam and China, coupled with the widespread acceptance of the Book of Poetry's philosophy in Vietnam, have led to the gradual assimilation of numerous words and allusions from this classic into the Vietnamese lexicon.

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This article aims to identify the syntactic and semantic features of stylistic oxymorons in the English language. Some previous researchers and linguists have studied oxymorons from different aspects- with a comparison and contrast in native and non-native languages about the functions, concepts, categorizations, semantic logical foundations, and expressive values.

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In fact, metaphors and metonymies are two popular ways to change the meanings of words. This study is centered around metaphors in 181 English and Vietnamese idioms related to colors. The comparative method, quantitative, qualitative, and semantic analysis are used throughout this study to find similarities and differences between metaphors in English and Vietnamese idioms related to colors in terms of linguistics and culture.

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The author has researched the hot trend speech patterns (new trends) that young people often use on Facebook and surveyed the characteristics of the origin, linguistic characteristics, and socio-cultural characteristics of this new language. The author used qualitative and quantitative research methods from the data source, which are hot trend words and sentence patterns in chats, articles, and comments on Facebook.

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Names serve not only as markers of individual identity but also as cultural artifacts that encapsulate societal values, historical contexts, and linguistic evolution. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of gendered naming conventions in English-speaking communities, tracing their historical trajectories and examining contemporary trends.

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The article explores direct refusals in English and their Vietnamese equivalents through a comparative analysis of the direct refusals in the novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell and the Vietnamese translated version "Cuốn theo chiều giỏ" by Vũ Kim Thư. The study's primary aim is to examine how refusals are expressed in English and how these expressions are translated into Vietnamese, considering linguistic differences.

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This study aimed to explore university students' perceptions of the difficulties they encountered while speaking English. With a mixed-method design, this research collected data through questionnaires administered to 290 university students and semi-structured interviews conducted with ten respondents.

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This study aims to investigate the second-year Englishmajor students’ willingness towards CL at Thuyloi University. Specifically, the research answers the following questions: What are advantages and disadvantages of CL, from students’ perspective? What are their attitudes towards CL? Are they skilled and willing to practice CL?

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The study’s outcome can be utitlised as references for further research to elaborate and validate the theoretical framework of storytelling genre or applied in other fields such as pedagogy, literature or contrastive linguistics.

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This study, therefore, investigated students’ evaluation of Solutions Pre-intermediate, one textbook belonging to the Solutions series. 256 non-English majors at a public university in Vietnam participated in the study and completed an online 29-item questionnaire which examined their perceptions of the organization, activities, linguistic aspects, and subject and content and their overall evaluation of the textbook.

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This study explored the use of similes and personifications to describe “rain” and “wind” in American and Vietnamese literature from the mid-20th century to the present. The study offered practical suggestions for those who are interested in describing wind and rain in American and Vietnamese novels in particular.

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This research aims to enhance comprehension of legal texts by applying Talmy's (2017) threestep process for identifying and integrating referents from contextual cues into linguistic forms. Drawing on pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive semantics, and Talmy's force dynamics notion, a qualitative content analysis investigates the cognitive processes readers use for cue detection, attention allocation, and semantic integration when reading court indictments.

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This research delves into the typical grammatical mistakes made by Vietnamese students when writing in English, with the goal of revealing the particular linguistic difficulties they encounter. Carried out with 57 first-year students with diverse majors at a university in Vietnam, the study examines various levels of English skills, spanning from novice to expert.

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This paper aims to analyze linguistic features of modality used in English journal articles from Systemic Functional Grammar perspective to enhance global benchmarks in international publications to convey communicative functions between writers and readers effectively.

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