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Direct linkCassi L. Liardet; Sharyn Black – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
One of the most significant and yet often overlooked challenges for university students is decoding what their instructors expect from their assignments. Better understanding those expectations and the vocabulary and grammar needed to achieve them are the motivations behind this investigation. Eleven experienced instructors within an Australian…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Writing Teachers, Writing Assignments, Writing Evaluation
Qiuyun Lu; Alice Deignan – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners' awareness of them. To investigate this, we analyzed 72 argumentative essays written in English by a group of 37 intermediate Chinese university students of English. We identified metaphors using an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hani Hamad M. Albelihi; Arif Al-Ahdal – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
The current study explores error fossilization in the academic writing of Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) undergraduate learners. A manual textual analysis approach, employing corpus content analysis on writing across diverse genres including argumentative, expository, narrative, and descriptive essays was conducted to discover the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
