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Muhammad Ahmad; Muhammad Asim Mahmood; Ali Raza Siddique – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2023
This research investigates disciplinary variations using syntactic features in Pakistani academic writing (AW). The corpus of this research is developed from 160 dissertations across four disciplinary divisions and analyzed through AntConc. Results reveal heterogeneous and homogenous use of the said features. Heterogeneity is seen in relation to…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure
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Sun, Haimei – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2020
Reading texts may serve as a vital source of informational content and language knowledge for second language (L2) learners, which is known as the dual relevance of L2 reading (Han & D'Angelo, 2009). Text complexity, however, influences the two, determining to a great extent whether the dual outcome is attainable. Drawing on Complex Dynamic…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Readability, Textbooks
Misato Hiraga – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation developed a new learner corpus of Japanese and introduced an error and linguistic annotation scheme specifically designed for Japanese particles. The corpus contains texts written by learners who are in the first year to fourth year university level Japanese courses. The texts in the corpus were tagged with part-of-speech and…
Descriptors: Japanese, Computational Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
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Zeng, Xiaofang – Journal of Education, 2023
This study compared syntactic complexity between undergraduate students' research papers and published research papers. A 2 (Groups: experts, students) × 4 (Sections: introduction, methods, results, discussions) mixed factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted on each of the following variables: T-unit length, clause density, the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing for Publication, Research Papers (Students), Undergraduate Students
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Thi, Nang Kham; Vo, De Van; Nikolov, Marianne – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Students' writing proficiency is measured through holistic and analytical ratings in writing assessment; however, recent studies suggest that measurement of syntactic complexity in second language writing research has become an effective measure of writing proficiency. Within this paradigm, we investigated how automated measurement of syntactic…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Computational Linguistics, Undergraduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Minyoung Cho – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To test the predictive power of the SSARC (stabilize, simplify, automatize, reconstruct, and complexify) model of pedagogic task sequencing in second language (L2) writing development, the present study explores the performance of written decision-making tasks with varied levels of cognitive complexity in a simple-to-complex sequence in comparison…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
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Park, Shinjae – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2022
Despite writing and speaking being related activities, their end-products are entirely different. However, previous studies have not shown consistency in terms of grammar use in these two modes. Accordingly, in the present study, I aim to define the syntactic characteristics in these two modes with large-scale data and organized research designs.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Yiding Zhao – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
Idioms are highly conventionalized expressions that allow users to express beyond literal meanings. Despite the language difference, counterparts of idioms may overlap cross-culturally due to similar origin, social habits, and experiences. It is therefore interesting to probe whether L2 learners may benefit from deliberate instructions built on…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Park, Shinjae – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Based on the quantitative analysis of L2 English texts from Korean undergraduates, the present paper demonstrates the possibility of distinguishing L2 speaking proficiency with differing measures of syntactic complexity in English writing. To this end, 14 measures of complexity were gauged using an L2 Syntactic Analyzer (Lu, 2010) in 89 EFL essays…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Sudatip Prapunta – MEXTESOL Journal, 2025
This research study aims to explore students' perceptions and reflections on the effectiveness of project-based learning (PBL) in a Thai-English translation course in the EFL context. The participants of this study included forty-nine students who were enrolled in the Thai-English translation course. The participants were asked to produce a…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chutinan Noobutra – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The present study investigates whether or not Thai students' English writing skills can be improved by using an online grammar checker. First, typical syntactic errors made by undergraduate students majoring in English and English for Careers were examined. Secondly, possible reasons for syntactic errors in English writing in the light of Lado's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xiang, Keshu; Chang, Hui – Language Learning and Development, 2023
The present study investigates the multiple constraints on the processing of English dative alternation by Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners. The intermediate and advanced learners completed an acceptability judgment task which was composed of 30 dative alternations selected from a spoken corpus. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Grammar, Verbs, Predictor Variables
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Uba, Sani Yantandu; Irudayasamy, Julius – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This study emerged as a result of insufficient knowledge and descriptions of the behavioural profiles of the near-synonym English verbs, "increase" and "rise," by non-corpus-based traditional reference sources used by students. We explored the behavioural characteristics of this group of near-synonym verbs using the British…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, English, Language Variation
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Li, Jiawei; Supraja, S.; Qiu, Wei; Khong, Andy W. H. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Academic grades in assessments are predicted to determine if a student is at risk of failing a course. Sequential models or graph neural networks that have been employed for grade prediction do not consider relationships between course descriptions. We propose the use of text mining to extract semantic, syntactic, and frequency-based features from…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Learning Analytics, Academic Achievement, Prediction
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Eun Seon Chung – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
While previous investigations on online machine translation (MT) in language learning have analyzed how second language (L2) learners use and post-edit MT output, no study as of yet has investigated how the learners process MT errors and what factors affect this process using response and reading times. The present study thus investigates L2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Korean, Language Processing, Translation
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