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Direct linkRoman, Diego; Jones, Francesca; Basaraba, Deni; Hironaka, Stephanie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
The difficulties that students face when reading science texts go beyond understanding vocabulary and syntactic structures. Comprehension of science texts requires students to infer how these texts function as a unit to communicate scientific meaning. To help students in this process, science texts sometimes employ logical connectives (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Science Instruction, Form Classes (Languages), Inferences
Han, ZhaoHong, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume sheds empirical light on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) by providing five sets of analyses of two longitudinal, interactional datasets, involving two dyads exchanging emails over one academic semester. The collective study on CDST is the first of its kind, in that it delves into multiple subsystems of learner language,…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Systems Approach
Shirazi, Masoumeh A.; Mousavi Nadoushani, Seyed Mohammad – SAGE Open, 2017
This study is an endeavor to find how English native and nonnative EFL/ESL (English as foreign language/English as second language) writers use adversative conjunctions to connect ideas together so that texts have both coherence and cohesion. Regarding the problems nonnative writers of EFL face when composing a piece of writing, we attempted a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Research Reports, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Oliveira, Alandeom W. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of introducing elementary teachers to the scholarly literature on personal pronouns and hedges in classroom discourse, a professional development strategy adopted during a summer institute to enhance teachers' social understanding (i.e., their understanding of the social functions of language in science…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Classrooms, Professional Development, Science Instruction
Lomicka, Lara; Lord, Gillian – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper investigates the development of social presence in communities of language teachers at two universities. Specifically, our research sheds light on how social presence is characterized according to the technological tools used to link the community of language teachers. Over the period of a 14 week semester, nine electronic journal…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Form Classes (Languages), Electronic Journals
Download full textSobelman, Chih-ping Chang; And Others – 1982
Fifty-five structures of the Chinese language are described and their particular usage patterns are discussed for the use of teachers, linguists, and advanced students of Chinese. Each structure is listed by its major structural element(s), its grammatical element(s), or a combination of the two. The examination of each structure consists of an…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)
