A Meta-analysis of Studies of Contrastive Rhetoric in Iran Z. Jalali‚ N Fallah‚ Supervisor: A. Zare-ee Abstract The present work briefly summarizes the history of research in the area of contrastive rhetoric. It then summarizes the work in the area of contrastive rhetoric done in Iran. The paper points to the fact that in Iran contrastive rhetoric studies have focused on a) linguistic and rhetorical patterns as reflected in L1 and L2 writings of learners‚ b) discovering writing behaviors‚ c)
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Contrastive rhetoric Contrastive rhetoric examines the influence of differences and similarities across cultures on students L2 writing. It is mainly concerned with the influence of the ESL learners’ culture and L1 language on their writing in target language. The concept of contrastive rhetoric was first investigated by Robert Kaplan (1966). In his article entitled “Cultural thought patterns in inter-cultural education”‚ Kaplan argues that the humans are influenced by the diversity of their
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Contrastive Analysis and Second Language Acquisition Contrastive Analysis was used extensively in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the 1960s and early 1970s‚ as a method of explaining why some features of a target language were more difficult to acquire than others. According to the behaviourist theories prevailing at the time‚ language learning was a question of habit formation‚ and this could be reinforced or impeded by existing habits. Therefore‚ the difficulty in mastering certain
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Contrastive analysis Volker Gast 1 Introduction Narrowly defined‚ contrastive analysis investigates the differences between pairs (or small sets) of languages against the background of similarities and with the purpose of providing input to applied disciplines such as foreign language teaching and translation studies. With its largely descriptive focus contrastive linguistics provides an interface between theory and application. It makes use of theoretical findings and models of language
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differences in Malay language and other language form that may be found different‚ thus the name contrastive analysis. Wrapping up this paper‚ two (2) paradigm found that explained the importance of contrastive analysis and the similarities as well as differences in Malay language with other languages‚ in this case English. Questions would be ask by anyone regarding the rational of using contrastive analysis in learning language and why it is vital for us to keep practicing it when in the end‚ all that
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Advanced writing April 24‚ 2009 Contrastive analysis: Prosperity‚ Decline and new Hopes of revival It should be mentioned that the history of foreign language teaching is so complicated. The complexities are the outcome of the rise of the assumptions of so many theories‚ approaches‚ methods and hypotheses that dominated this field ‚ especially beginning from1940s and up till now. Today there are innumerable assumptions for approaches and methods that relate to language learning and
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difficulties when doing communication in Target Language (TL). People still unable master or comprehend the language even though they have learnt the language in the primary and secondary levels. This term paper has been conducted to determine contrastive linguistic components between English and Bahasa Melayu from morphology and syntax fields. Affixes‚ adverbs‚ adverbs‚ superlatives‚ and preposition are to be investigated. This can be attributed to the different morphological structures between
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Chapter 22 Meta-Analysis ‘Fett’s Law: Never replicate a successful experiment’ Content list What is meta-analysis? Examples of meta-analytic studies Conducting a meta-analysis Replication and meta-analysis Comparing studies by effect size Combining studies by effect size Comparing studies by significance levels Combining studies by significance levels Comparing and combining more than two effect sizes and significance levels Some issues in meta-analysis 533 535 536 539 540 542 544 545 547 547
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2011 Contrastive AnalysisR I The ways in which new words are formed‚ and the factors which govern their acceptance into the language‚ are generally taken very much for granted by the average speaker. To understand a word‚ it is not necessary to know how it is constructed‚ whether it is simple or... Premium 10989 Words 44 Pages A Comparative Analysis of Tenses in Newspapers Headlines and Reports A Comparative Analysis of Tenses in Newspapers Headlines and Reports Introduction. The aim of
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INTONATION IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE ABSTRACT Intonation is very important for English learner because when you talk a sentence without having a correct intonation‚ it may change the intended meaning of the whole sentence. This study will briefly compare Vietnamese intonation and English intonation as well as the differences between these two language intonations and to offer some implications for teaching English intonation to Vietnamese EFL learners. Obviously‚ English intonation
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