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Grant Eckstein; Ying Suet Michelle Lung; Natasha Gillette – TESL-EJ, 2025
Students are often encouraged to proofread their writing by reading it aloud. Presumably, this will allow writers to correct local errors. Yet even though this strategy may be effective for native speakers, there is little empirical evidence of its benefit among second language writers. Therefore, we wondered how many errors second language…
Descriptors: Proofreading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lukas Matati Josua – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
Studying towards a postgraduate qualification is viewed as a booster that may usher employees towards management positions. We have found common mistakes in research proposals for master's degree students in a department at the University of Namibia. Our presentation shows the shortcomings in the research proposals of postgraduate students and…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Universities, Plagiarism
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Pulaczewska, Hanna – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The article discusses the results of a study of L1 proofreading competence conducted among young adult native speakers of Polish who acquired English through formal education at school and university in Poland. Students with various levels of proficiency in English were asked to make acceptability judgements for Polish structures presented to them…
Descriptors: Polish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alm, Antonie; Watanabe, Yuki – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This short paper reports on the preliminary findings of a study into the use of Online Translators (OTs) by university language students. Students of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish and their teachers responded to comparative surveys on their respective use and evaluation of OTs for L2 writing in formal language learning contexts.…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fareed, Muhammad; Sultan, Sheba R.; Shireen, Khadija – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
The quality of language produced is greatly influenced by the quality of language input. Reading is a major source of language and knowledge input. In Pakistan, two types of books written in the English language are available for the reader. The first type includes the books written and published in Pakistan and the second type is of the books…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kennedy, Olivia – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This article explores how 40 first-year students in a compulsory English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course undertook written tasks during a semester suddenly undertaken online. The university in Japan described here provided on-demand lessons via the Learning Management System (LMS) during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Students prepared…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Amin, Eman Abdel-Reheem – Arab World English Journal, 2019
The present study aimed at developing English as a foreign language (EFL) college students' translation performance through raising their awareness of related syntactic and semantic errors. During the pilot study, the researcher analyzed fifty translated passages from students' assignments. The aim of this systematic analysis was necessary to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Conrad, Nina – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
Anglosphere universities are a site of growing concern about students' use of professional English language editing and proofreading services for the correction of academic writing. Students' use of such services raises issues of ethics and academic integrity as well as fundamental questions about how value is allotted to the labour involved in…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Higher Education, Guidelines, Editing
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Sevcikova, Beata Lewis – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present research offers an assessment of the online open source tools used in the L2 academic writing, teaching, and learning environment. As fairly little research has been conducted on how to best use online automated proofreaders for educational purposes, the objective of this study is to examine the potential of such online tools. Unlike…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse
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Kotamjani, Sedigheh Shakib; Razavi, Ommehoney Fazel; Hussin, Habsah – English Language Teaching, 2017
Some studies have reported the positive outcome of using concordancers and dictionaries in (ESL) context. This study aims to examine how an EFL writer consulted with concordancers and dictionaries along with Google and Google Scholar when engaging in academic writing at university level. The researcher investigated a non-English-major postgraduate…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods