The aim of this paper is to show how the choice of verbal aspect may not just be a matter of location in time but also a sign of the addresser’s intentions to highlight different elements of the message. The role of the ...

In our pragmatic approach to research articles (RAs), we take a look at one of the main characteristics of academic writing: the use of modalized statements. Modalization, in the form of modal verbs, has been extensively ...

Nowadays, language testing is considered a fundamental component in foreign language teaching and learning. In this paper, some of the most representative features of language testing are described and special attention ...

Discourse markers have a basic role in oral interactions. Apart from providing coherence and regulating turn-taking, they have important interactive functions that indicate the conversational commitment and the social ...

Drawing from data on several language contact situations, this paper aims to provide some empirical evidence in support of the hypotheses that (i) at the morphosyntactic level, influence from another language is hard to ...

Recent neurobiological research points to a new direction in the study of the human mind. Mental imagery seems to be an essential condition of thought that underlies each and every act of knowledge. In light of this research, ...

Studies on the processes that shape the learning/acquisition of a second language phonology mainly deal with defining the nature of transfer processes and internal developmental processes and clarifying the roles played ...

The students’ thoughts are a source of power when they are used correctly in the EFL classroom, but, on the contrary, they may be an obstacle to learning and cause emotional instability if the students do not use them well. ...

L2 teachers often have difficulties in communicating successfully in the target language with students who have poor transitional competence. However, in a former study, Fonseca and Cuenca (2000) observed that it was ...