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Download full textBuddhima Karunarathna, J. A. M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
In the arena of English for academic purposes, many nonnative speakers of English in different contexts find it difficult to perform well, because academic genre is alien to them. Current study was based on improving writing skills with a special focus on writing of language hedges in argumentative essays through reading journal articles. The…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Gursoy, Esim; Bag, Hatice Kübra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
In the light of continuous change of global perspectives, current educational contexts have been evolving to cover the necessary 21st century skills that the individuals must acquire. Two of the 4Cs (creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication) of the 21st century educational trends; creativity and creative thinking are the key…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Azer, Haniyeh Sadeghi; Aghayi, Mohammad Bagher – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study aims to evaluate the translation quality of two machine translation systems in translating six different text-types, from English to Persian. The evaluation was based on criteria proposed by Van Slype (1979). The proposed model for evaluation is a black-box type, comparative and adequacy-oriented evaluation. To conduct the evaluation, a…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Translation, Users (Information)
Yalçin-Çolakoglu, Özlem; Selçuk, Merve – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Criterion referenced tests of second language speaking performance are administered in different institutions using different procedures. The present study reports raters' practices of second language speaking tests, in particular the correspondence between test-takers' grades when assessed individually and in groups. Data derived from…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Test Validity, Inferences
Skalicky, Stephen; Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall "Humor" component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Humor, Writing (Composition)
Alotaibi, Hmoud – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The most significant constructs of ESL pronunciation models are "accentedness," "intelligibility," and "comprehensibility" (Derwing & Munro 2005; Jenkins, 2000; Pickering, 2006). It is clear though that the assessment of these characteristics shows no consideration for the potential affection of the assessor…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Evaluators
Yamini, Morteza; Tahmasebi, Soheila – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2012
Salient in an EFL teaching context is students' dissatisfaction with their final scores especially in oral courses. This study tried to bridge the gap between students' and teachers' rating system through alternatives to existing measurement methods. Task-based language assessment has stimulated language teachers to question the way through which…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation, Reading Comprehension, Majors (Students)
