English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies
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description: English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies (ELTLS) is an international, Refereed, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Scholink. The journal aims to provide a high-level platform for scholars and researchers all over the world to share latest findings and views in the field of English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. We would welcome scholars and researchers engaging in the related field to submit your manuscripts which are complete unpublished and original works and not under review in any other journals to English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. Both of online submission and E-mail submission (eltls@scholink.org) are acceptable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The journal includes, but is not limited to the following fields: Teaching English as a Second Language or a Foreign Language Syllabus Design and Curriculum Development English Language Testing and Assessment Linguistics Teaching and Learning Discourse Analysis Second Language Acquisition Critical Discourse Analysis Applied Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Corpus Linguistics Descriptive Linguistics Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Socio-linguistics Theoretical Linguistics Teaching Process Translation Studies Language Learning Education Morphology Phonology Pragmatics Literature Semantics Syntax -------------------------------------------------------- Index/List/Archive CNKI-Scholar CrossRef WANFANGDATA LinkedIn ResearchGate ResearchBib Yahoo Google Scholar Canadiana ResearchBib Base Search CrossRef Sciencegate Worldcat PKP Open Archives Harvester Lockss ISSN PORTAL Refereed Journal: English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies is a Refereed Journal. Open access: English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies is available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Peer review: English Languag…
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items: “Simplicity as a Weapon”: A Comparative Analysis of Zhang Xuefeng and State Education Talk in the New Media Sphere
items: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning in New-Type Farmers' Agricultural Promotion Short Videos on Douyin
items: Communicative Functions of Textbook Images: A Multimodal Analysis of New Standard English (Selective Compulsory Book 2)
items: Teaching Design of AI-Enabling Junior High School English Instruction under the POA Model
items: CRT-Oriented English Writing Instruction in Rural Primary Schools: A Case Study in Jinsha, Guizhou
items: Epistemic Lexical Verbs Based on the COCA Corpus: A Study of “Argue”, “Note” and “Claim”
items: A Study on Translation Strategies of Chinese Political Metaphors from the Perspective of Cognitive Translatology：A Case Study of Two Important Speeches Delivered in Lima
items: https://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/eltls/article/view/57654
items: A Multimodal Construction of China’s National Sports Image by China Daily in the Away-Game Context
items: Analysis of Pragmatic Presupposition in “Qiushi” Based on LDA Model from Linguistic Adaptation Theory

“Simplicity as a Weapon”: A Comparative Analysis of Zhang Xuefeng and State Education Talk in the New Media Sphere
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description: In the new media era, public educational discourse has tended toward popularization, with Zhang Xuefeng’s educational discourse serving as a typical representative. From the perspective of corpus linguistics, this study constructs two corpora: the Zhang Xuefeng Educational Corpus (ZXC) and the Expert Educational Corpus (EEC) of university scholars. With AntConc, NeoSCA and SPSS adopted, a comparative analysis is conducted on lexical richness and syntactic complexity. The results indicate that there is no significant difference in sentence length between the two types of discourse, while extremely significant differences exist in lexical richness, subordinate structures, coordinate structures and phrasal structures. Overall, Zhang Xuefeng’s discourse tends to be simplified and popular, whereas expert discourse is more rigorous and standardized. This study reveals the differentiation law of popularization and specialization in new media educational discourse, interprets the adaptive value of simplified expression in mass communication, and provides empirical references for optimizing the dissemination of public educational information and balancing professionalism and accessibility.
creator: Shuo Geng
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Shuo Geng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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date: 2026-05-04
publication date: 2026-05-04
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 1
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p1

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning in New-Type Farmers' Agricultural Promotion Short Videos on Douyin
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description: This study selects 15 short videos published over the past year by new-type farmers (xin nong ren) on Douyin as research corpus. It adopts systemic functional grammar’s interpersonal meaning theory, visual grammar’s interactive meaning theory, and intersemiotic complementarity theory as analytical framework, using AntConc and ELAN multimodal video analysis software as research tools. This study employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how agricultural promotion short videos construct interpersonal meaning through multimodal resources. The analysis focuses on three aspects, including verbal mode, visual mode, and their synergistic complementarity. According to the findings, in the verbal mode, declarative sentences account for the highest proportion in the mood system. Median-value and low-value modal expressions reach 92.8% in the modality system, which helps present information in a relative neutral and tentative manner and contributes to shaping a credible image of new-type farmers and maintaining audience trust. In the visual mode, demand image, medium close-up and medium shots, horizontal angle, and high-modality color expressions are commonly used. These visual choices effectively reduce the social distance between creators and audiences, support a more equal interpersonal relationship and encourage emotional engagement. In terms of intersemiotic complementarity between verbal and visual modes, attitudinal convergence, attitudinal divergence, and appellative reinforcement can all be observed. Among them, attitudinal convergence occurs most often, where verbal and visual elements work mutually to reinforce interpersonal meaning, improve coherence and optimize the audience’s viewing experience. This study enriches empirical research on multimodal discourse analysis in the context of agricultural promotion short videos, and provides implications for the interactive design and content production of such videos.
creator: Yixin Chen
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yixin Chen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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date: 2027-05-07
publication date: 2027-05-07
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 21
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p21

Communicative Functions of Textbook Images: A Multimodal Analysis of New Standard English (Selective Compulsory Book 2)
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description: With the increasingly prominent position of multimodal ability in high school English education, the function carried by textbook images is far more than page decoration. They are no longer just a visual accompaniment of written texts, but participate in meaning construction and classroom communication in a more direct way. This study takes New Standard English (Selective Compulsory Volume II) as the object of analysis, explores the communication function of textbook images under the theoretical framework of visual grammar, and adopts multimodal discourse analysis methods to examine how different visual resources promote the understanding and interpretation of textbook discourse. The analysis found that the images of the textbook generally play a positive role in discourse understanding, cultural awareness cultivation and value guidance in English learning, but the focus of each function is not exactly the same. Some images mainly help learners enter specific discourse situations and grasp the text background more smoothly; others highlight the cultural content with visual details such as clothing, character behaviour, natural appearance and surrounding environment. There is also a class of images that are more closely related to emotional response and attitude guidance. In contrast, some images choose to use symbols, visual metaphors or coherent series of images to clearly explain abstract concepts. When abstract concepts are transformed into more intuitive image forms, learners tend to get a more transparent understanding experience. Frankly speaking, the generation of meaning in these images does not rely on an isolated visual factor, but on the coordinated operation of elements such as mood, salignance, narrative reproduction and image organisation, which jointly affect the generation and interpretation of meaning. At the same time, the analysis shows that there are still some shortcomings in the images of the textbook. The interaction between some images and th…
creator: Shiman Zhang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Shiman Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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date: 2026-05-07
publication date: 2026-05-07
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 43
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p43

Teaching Design of AI-Enabling Junior High School English Instruction under the POA Model
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description: With the advancement of digital transformation of education, artificial intelligence provides technical support for the innovation of foreign language education model. However, there is still a problem of “separation of learning and application” in junior high school English teaching. In order to solve this problem, the Production-Oriented Approach came into being. This teaching method provides an effective pathway to realize the integration of learning and application. However, for front-line teachers, the application of POA in front-line teaching faces many difficulties, such as being time-consuming and laborious, and puts forward higher requirements for teachers’ personal teaching design ability and knowledge reserve. Based on this, this paper takes Unit 3 “A Helping Hand” from the FLTRP eighth-grade textbook as an example, constructs the POA teaching design framework under AI empowerment, embeds the generative artificial intelligence into the three key phases “motivating, enabling, and assessing” and explores the classroom implementation path under the support of human-machine collaboration. The research shows that AI has significant advantages in the creation of communicative situations, the support of language resources and the optimization of evaluation feedback, which enhances teachers’ design efficiency and improves students’ language application skills. This paper also provides an operational design paradigm for AI-supported POA teaching practice.
creator: Shuyao Zhao
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Shuyao Zhao http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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date: 2026-05-10
publication date: 2026-05-10
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 57
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p57

CRT-Oriented English Writing Instruction in Rural Primary Schools: A Case Study in Jinsha, Guizhou
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description: In the current background of rural revitalization, improving the quality of rural basic education is an important task to promote educational equity and regional development. English writing, an important indicator of comprehensive language ability, faces many challenges in rural primary schools in multi-ethnic areas, such as students’ limited language ability, insufficient utilization of cultural resources, and outdated teaching methods. This study takes the third to sixth grade students of a multi-ethnic rural primary school in Jinsha County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province as the research object, and uses the case study method, supported by classroom observation and student writing analysis, based on the theory of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT). The study found that students’ writing ability is not enough, the cultural resources are not used to the maximum, and there is no diversity of teaching practice. Based on CRT theory, this study puts forward the strategies to promote cultural integration and teaching improvement, including: using local ethnic cultural resources to design writing situations suitable for students’ life experience; adopting multimodal teaching to expand the ways of expression; optimizing the process-oriented diversified evaluation system; and strengthening teacher-student interaction and collaborative learning. The suggestions are to provide effective guidance for teaching English writing in rural primary schools.
creator: Yue Li
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yue Li http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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date: 2026-05-14
publication date: 2026-05-14
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 68
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p68

Epistemic Lexical Verbs Based on the COCA Corpus: A Study of “Argue”, “Note” and “Claim”
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description: This paper draws on the COCA corpus to conduct a comparative analysis of the usage characteristics of the epistemic lexical verbs “argue”, “claim” and “note”, examining dimensions such as frequency distribution, register differences, collocation features and colligations. The findings reveal that: (1) In terms of frequency and register distribution, “note” is the most frequently used, primarily concentrated in academic and expository registers; “argue” is active in both academic and interactional registers; whilst “claim” is more prevalent in media and online registers. (2) In terms of collocation features, “claim” frequently co-occurs with terms related to stance-taking groups and rights attribution; “argue” is more commonly paired with academic or professional subjects and argumentation-related vocabulary; whilst “note” primarily co-occurs with informative and explanatory vocabulary. (3) In terms of colligation, “claim” is commonly found in “that” clauses and noun phrases; “argue” primarily takes the form of “that” clauses and co-occurs with prepositional phrases; whilst “note” relies heavily on “that” clause structures. Overall, there are systematic differences in the usage patterns of these three verbs within discourse. Research indicates that the use of epistemic lexical verbs is constrained by multiple factors, including register, collocation and colligation.
creator: Bingshu Yin
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Bingshu Yin http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-25
publication date: 2026-05-25
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 80
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p80

A Study on Translation Strategies of Chinese Political Metaphors from the Perspective of Cognitive Translatology：A Case Study of Two Important Speeches Delivered in Lima
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description: Cognitive Translatology is a new paradigm of translation studies grounded in cognitive science, focusing on the cognitive mechanism of translation, meaning construction, and cross-cultural communication. Rooted in embodied cognition and centered on profiling, it offers a systematic perspective for metaphor translation research. Taking President’s Lima Speech as the corpus, this paper adopts the base-profile theory of Cognitive Translatology and the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) proposed by the Pragglejaz Group. Through manual identification and verification, 30 metaphors in the text are selected, classified, and statistically analyzed. Furthermore, integrated with four cognitive frameworks, this paper correspondingly examines the specific applications and cognitive operational mechanisms of four translation strategies: literal translation, metonymy, free translation, and metaphtonymy. Through case analysis, this study provides cognitive theoretical support and practical references for metaphor translation in political discourse, and enriches the applied research of cognitive translatology in political discourse translation.
creator: Lan Wang
creator: Juan Yao
creator: Hui Shao
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Lan Wang, Juan Yao, Hui Shao http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-22
publication date: 2026-05-22
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 91
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p91

https://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/eltls/article/view/57654
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title: The translation of Hakka dialect into Hakka Language Is a Key Task in the Study of Hakka Language, which Should Be Analyzed from the Methodological Level in This Study, and the Translation of the New Testament in the 19th century Is Taken as an Example
description: Western missionaries compiled a large number of texts, and these texts have laid the foundation for the study of Chinese dialect grammar, but we should not ignore the existence of translation language interference in the compilation of these texts. This paper takes the New Testament written in Hakka as the research object, compares it with the grammatical materials of Hakka dialects in the same period or later periods, and constructs a three-tier analytical framework from three aspects: historical evolution, translation interference and underlying stability. Through analysis, it is found that the grammatical elements are relatively stable and should be included in the underlying stability layer, and the affirmative and negative interrogation structure and the “Jiang” clause have only appeared in the translation, and are consistent with the content of Putonghua, which is inevitably interfered with by translation, and should be included in the translation interference layer. The grammatical evolution of plural markers and the disappearance of comparative markers are inevitably related to historical evolution.Based on the above conclusions, this paper analyzes the principles of dialectal syntax research, including asymmetry and cross-validation strategies, in order to provide a reference for the analysis of similar texts.
creator: Xianrui Zhu
creator: Xueying Lin
creator: Xinyang Li
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Xianrui Zhu, Xueying Lin, Xinyang Li http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-25
publication date: 2026-05-25
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 102
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p102

A Multimodal Construction of China’s National Sports Image by China Daily in the Away-Game Context
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description: This study takes the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics as a case study to explore how Chinese media construct the national sports image through multimodal discourse in an away-game context. Addressing the gap in existing literature, which predominantly focuses on home-game events, this paper analyzes 30 multimodal news reports from China Daily. It adopts the framework of multimodal discourse analysis (MDA), integrating transitivity analysis, Visual Grammar, and Intersemiotic Complementarity theory to examine the synergistic construction mechanisms of verbal and visual modalities. The findings reveal that China Daily presents a credible image through material processes and objective data; shapes a lovable image via emotional expressions and an equal perspective; and portrays a respectable image using cultural symbols and willpower. Consequently, it accomplishes the multidimensional construction of a “credible, lovable, and respectable” image in an away-game context. This paper broadens the away-game dimension in national sports image research and provides references for the multimodal communication strategies of Chinese media in international sporting event coverage.
creator: Yihan Liu
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yihan Liu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-28
publication date: 2026-05-28
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 109
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p109

Analysis of Pragmatic Presupposition in “Qiushi” Based on LDA Model from Linguistic Adaptation Theory
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description: This research, grounded in Linguistic Adaptation Theory, selects 648 English Qiushi Journal articles from 2015 to 2024 as corpus. It applies the LDA topic model to proportional samples 18 papers and codes their pragmatic presuppositions via NVivo to analyze presupposition strategies’ traits. Results show six core national governance themes covering politics, economy and livelihood. Its thematic evolution falls into three dynamically adaptive stages with shifting research focuses. Besides, pragmatic presuppositions form a three-dimensional adaptive pattern matching linguistic structures, changing contexts and cultural salience. The study enriches LDA’s linguistic empirical applications, broadens Adaptation Theory’s coverage, facilitates cross-research of pragmatic presupposition and macro-linguistics, and offers a fresh angle for political discourse pragmatic strategies.
creator: Yaping Yang
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Yaping Yang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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date: 2026-06-02
publication date: 2026-06-02
volume: 8
number: 3
starting page: 131
doi: 10.22158/eltls.v8n3p131