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Teacher written feedback (TWF) has received growing attention from researchers and teachers. Although TWF arguably targets multiple dimensions of students’ writing, research to date has largely focused on the relationship between written corrective feedback and language development. More research is needed to understand TWF more holistically and as a two-way social process (Storch, 2018). As such, it is important to understand students’ perspectives on TWF in different instructional contexts. The present study explores Vietnamese EFL students’ perceptions of TWF practices and their preferences for TWF. Data was collected from 97 English-major students in a Vietnamese tertiary setting by means of a questionnaire and follow-up interviews. The findings show that while TWF tended to weigh more on the linguistic end of the form-meaning continuum, students preferred TWF to target both form and global issues of content/idea development and writing style. However, students were divided in their preferences for comprehensive/selective feedback and for direct/indirect feedback. Although students were aware of the necessity of revising their writing upon reception of feedback, they reported different post-feedback actions. Above all, students’ preferences and expectations were underpinned by their own beliefs about the values of TWF that encompass both cognitive/non-cognitive and affective dimensions. The study offers important pedagogical implications for planning written feedback in writing instruction.

La contribution se concentre sur l'analyse de la survivance du matériel mythologique dans la littérature française des treizième et quatorzième siècles. Pour cette analyse, trois textes ont été choisis pour représenter autant de manières de comprendre la mythologie au Moyen Âge, en France et en Italie.   La première œuvre, le roman d'Hector et Herculés, met en évidence la modernisation des matériaux épiques, qui se déclinent selon les canons du roman et de la chanson de geste. Le roman d'Hector et Herculés présente in nuce le contact entre mythologie et religion chrétienne qui est bien explicité dans le second texte, le Huon d'Auvergne. La chanson de geste raconte les aventures du héros éponyme, qui est envoyé en enfer par Charles Martel. Son pèlerinage rappelle étroitement les aventures d'Ulysse et les héros des romans courtois. En outre, le Huon d'Auvergne associe étroitement la conception chrétienne à la survie du matériel mythologique. Un exemple en est donné par l'épisode des femmes diaboliques, qui ressemblent de près au règne de la Sibylle des Apennins.   Le dernier texte est l'Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César, un récit historique qui part de la Genèse et raconte l'histoire de l'humanité jusqu'à l'époque romaine. Déjà dans sa structure, l'Histoire combine le texte sacré avec l'histoire, la mythologie avec les chroniques. De cette façon, les héros de la guerre de Troie peuvent à la fois invoquer leurs dieux pour la victoire de la guerre et se dire chrétiens.   À travers les trois exemples présentés, il sera montré comment le Moyen Âge a préservé la mythologie, en essayant à chaque fois de la proposer dans une perspective chrétienne. 

This study investigated rhetorical functions and their associated linguistic realizations in English review article abstracts. The analysis was based on a corpus of 100 English review article abstracts from linguistics and applied linguistics disciplines and followed a corpus-driven discourse analytic top-down approach. MAXQDA and WordSmith were used to code the moves and analyze their associated sub-corpora, respectively. The results of calculating range and frequency distributions showed that English conceptual review article abstracts use a rhetorical structure, different from that of research paper abstracts. This rhetorical organization is realized through a different set of moves, namely 1) establishing the territory or area of study, 2) identifying the problem, 3) introducing the present research, 4) organizing the paper, and 5) concluding or reflecting. Moreover, each move was realized through a distinct set of sub-moves. In terms of range, the moves dealing with purpose and structure were the most widely present moves; in terms of frequency distribution, the move dealing with structure was the most frequent. Furthermore, the highly frequent use of plural self-mentions indicates that in review article abstracts the emphasis is on research as a group activity inclusive of the researcher(s) and objects of study. In addition, the presence of ‘establishing the territory’, together with ‘identifying the problem’ can be seen as an attempt to sell the research. Finally, the prevalent use of the five moves showed that most review article abstracts are indicative-informative in function

Teacher identity has turned out to be of great importance in teacher pedagogical practice. A number of factors are implicated in shaping and reshaping teachers' identity. Despite numerous studies on teacher identity, language teacher religious identity has remained under-researched. Therefore, the current study examined how Iranian religious English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers are identified. To do so, 30 religious teachers were selected through purposive sampling. The data were collected through employing semi-structured interviews, developed based on Simon’s (2004) six components of identity, namely personal features, physical characters, special abilities, behavioral qualities, ideological attributes, and group membership. The results demonstrated that religious teachers tend to manifest certain Islamic-based personal attributes like fairness and kindness and also adhere to some Islamic rules of physical features like head covering for females and dignified clothes for males. In addition, religious teachers' behaviors and performances were profoundly affected by their religious background, realized in their attempts to control their anger, to avoid insulting and backbiting, and to disregard or replacing the materials which seem to be against the Islamic thought. The findings can have practical implications for teachers, institute administrators, and other stakeholders whose cognizance of religious teachers' identity could help prevent possible identity tensions.

World literature is replete with many texts that depict the imperialists using hypocritical language as an oppressive device for intimidating their subjects. The oppressors pretended to be the civilizers by inculcating the idea of “Benevolent Colonization” into the minds of the oppressed. In this paper, the researchers investigate how situational and linguistic contexts affect the meanings of utterances in George Orwell’s selected novels. It is aimed to remove the gaps in the multicultural world by scrutinizing the power of language pragmatically. The methodology is qualitative based on Grice’s theory of implicature. The novels under investigation both violate and adhere to the four maxims of Grice’s theory of Conversational Implicature. The findings of the paper indicate that language can be used as a suppressive weapon for supporting imperialist objectives or hamper satisfactory human relations, and that positive gifts of imperialism come with the caveat that they are being achieved at the cost of exploiting the oppressed.

Nous nous interrogeons, dans cet article, sur les valeurs sémantiques et référentielles de Pendant que . Confrontant les propositions faites dans la littérature avec nos observations sur des données attestées, nous nous efforcerons, dans ce travail, d’apporter quelques éléments de réponse à des questions en rapport avec les différents mécanismes qui régissent les fonctionnements de ce dernier marqueur discursif. Ajoutons ici que cette recherche a pris appui, entre autres, sur la SDRT (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory) (Lascarides et Asher 1993). Cette approche nous paraît intéressante et féconde par le modèle formaliste qu’elle met en œuvre, son objet étant particulièrement labile .

There is scarce systematic research on the role of genres and their associated discourse features in Information Structure and its syntactic representations in Persian. The current descriptive, corpus-based study, therefore, aimed to investigate three different genres of Persian spoken language; that is, political, scientific and daily conversation, in terms of their Information Structure as realized through four syntactic devices of clefting, pseudo-clefting, passive and preposing. To this purpose, 1000 different utterances related to each of the mentioned genres, were extracted from the multi-media archive of IRNA (Iranian News Agency) website and daily conversations of the researchers’ family members and friends, based on Lambrecht’s theoretical framework in modeling the Information Structure. The collected data were then transcribed, the syntactic devices were identified, and descriptive statistics were used to see how the above syntactic devices are represented in each genre type. The results revealed that the devices are represented differently in the three genres of political, scientific, and daily conversations. This finding may be of interest to linguists and language theoreticians.