This study investigates teacher appraisers' perceptions of teacher appraisal in terms of its purpose, methods, and criteria. Fourteen teacher-appraisers were administered semi-structured interviews to gain an in-depth understanding of their perceptions of appraisal. Analysis of the responses revealed that participants seemed to advocate the use of teacher appraisal for both professional improvement and decision-making purposes. Participants also seemed to agree about the value of classroom observation as an objective method of evaluation. Still, they were divided regarding the use of student evaluation, student achievement, and other indi-rect observation methods, especially for decision-making purposes. As for evaluation criteria, the results revealed that while teacher-appraisers paid attention to all aspects of the teaching process in their evaluation, their focus remained mainly on those skills exhibited during the actual delivery of teaching.
Some linguists have claimed that foreign language learners are unaware that English words containing Greek and Latin roots are analyzable. One purpose of the present study was to assess this claim. A second purpose was to see whether making these learners aware of the analyzability of these words would help them to expand their vocabulary. The final purpose was to find out whether students find the meanings of certain types of such words easier to guess than others. The 30 subjects in this study were pretested, given instruction in analyzing words into their component roots and guessing their meanings, and then post-tested. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to evaluate the hypotheses, and these yielded the following results: (1) advanced Iraqi EFL learners are not aware of the analyzability of this type of words, and (2) making these learners aware of this analyzability will enable them to expand their vocabulary considerably, (3) learners find guessing the meanings of words containing Greek roots easier than those of words containing Latin roots, and (4) learners find guessing the meanings of words whose roots have not undergone any linguistic changes easier than those of words whose roots have undergone such changes.
The study examined impolite acts in an Iraqi T.V. sports talk show interview to illustrate the functions and categories of impoliteness strategies using a descriptive qualitative method. The data were in the form of utterances, while the context of the data was the dialogues spoken by the host and the guest in the interview. The data source was a short 8-minute video clip of the interview on YouTube that has gone viral among Iraqi sports fans. In this research, an inductive approach was used in analyzing the data. From a theoretical perspective, this research is expected to shed light on impoliteness strategies in Iraqi T.V. sports shows. From an applied perspective, the results of this study are hoped to help people be more aware of the importance of being cautious in choosing certain politeness strategies to maintain good communication with others and gain their goals through that communication
Borrowing in linguistics refers to the process whereby a group of speakers incorporates certain foreign linguistic components into their home language via a process known as linguistic borrowing. The process by which these foreign linguistic elements, known as loanwords, go through phonological, morphological, or semantic changes in order for them to fit the grammar of the recipient language is referred to as loanword adaptation. Loanwords go through these changes in order for them to become compatible with the grammar of the recipient language. One of the most divisive topics in loanword phonology is whether adaptations occur at the phonemic or phonetic levels, and current literature distinguishes three primary viewpoints: nativization-through-perception, nativization-through-production, and the Optimality Model. This article provides an overview of lexical borrowing and then presents a detailed account of the three models of phonological loanword adaptation.
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