English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups

Blogs have become an undeniably important source of information on sociopolitical occurrences in Myanmar, especially concerning the conditions of its minorities including the Rohingya. However, Myanmar bloggers are non-native speakers of English and their mother tongues belong to different language...

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Main Authors:	Phyu, Hnin Pwint, Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2015
Subjects:	PE English
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/1/47122.pdf

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spelling	iium-471222017-09-06T08:07:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/ English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups Phyu, Hnin Pwint Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah PE English Blogs have become an undeniably important source of information on sociopolitical occurrences in Myanmar, especially concerning the conditions of its minorities including the Rohingya. However, Myanmar bloggers are non-native speakers of English and their mother tongues belong to different language families of unique historical backgrounds. These differences may have significant effects on the English language production of the bloggers. This study specifically explores variations of adjective phrases used by Burmese and Rohingya bloggers. Adjectival modifiers are very important in the content of blogs as they are linguistically instrumental in the narrations, descriptions and analyses of incidents and issues. Adjective phrases collated from forty blog articles have been thoroughly analysed. The findings of this exploratory study suggest essential theoretical and pedagogical implications. Among others, it can be concluded that Rohingya bloggers’ use of adjective phrases are more frequent than Burmese bloggers’. Specifically, they have been found to considerably use more adjective phrases with complements than their Burmese counterparts. Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/1/47122.pdf Phyu, Hnin Pwint and Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah (2015) English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups. In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015), 10th-11th Oct. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. https://www.unisza.edu.my/icl2015/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=237
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description	Blogs have become an undeniably important source of information on sociopolitical occurrences in Myanmar, especially concerning the conditions of its minorities including the Rohingya. However, Myanmar bloggers are non-native speakers of English and their mother tongues belong to different language families of unique historical backgrounds. These differences may have significant effects on the English language production of the bloggers. This study specifically explores variations of adjective phrases used by Burmese and Rohingya bloggers. Adjectival modifiers are very important in the content of blogs as they are linguistically instrumental in the narrations, descriptions and analyses of incidents and issues. Adjective phrases collated from forty blog articles have been thoroughly analysed. The findings of this exploratory study suggest essential theoretical and pedagogical implications. Among others, it can be concluded that Rohingya bloggers’ use of adjective phrases are more frequent than Burmese bloggers’. Specifically, they have been found to considerably use more adjective phrases with complements than their Burmese counterparts.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Phyu, Hnin Pwint Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah
author_facet	Phyu, Hnin Pwint Mohammad Lotfie, Maskanah
author_sort	Phyu, Hnin Pwint
title	English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups
title_short	English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups
title_full	English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups
title_fullStr	English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups
title_full_unstemmed	English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups
title_sort	english adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two myanmar ethnic groups
publisher	Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/47122/1/47122.pdf
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English adjective phrase variations of bloggers from two Myanmar ethnic groups

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