Background: Effective communication between teachers and learners is crucial for a productive educational environment. This study explores communication challenges in secondary schools in Bahati Sub County, Nakuru, Kenya, focusing on linguistic features and politeness markers used in teacher-learner interactions. Objective: To identify…

In the age when environmental sustainability is among the chief concerns and goals of communities around the world, a number of linguistic studies have been conducted to illuminate the roles of language in protection and destruction of ecological systems. Most of the studies, however, focus on written and/or formal discourses. The present study…

Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…