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Carly Steele; Rhonda Oliver – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
In this paper, we provide an overview of the policies that have existed in relation to Australian First Nations students' languages, and English language and literacy learning before exploring how the politics of distraction manifests in this context. We then share our findings of an analysis of Australian language education policies for First…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Civil Rights, Equal Education
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Demir, Cuneyt – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Writing native-like has always been a primary purpose for non-native writers of English and, accordingly, many language components have been investigated to develop writers' fluency. One of these language components is syntactic complexity (SC), which is often regarded as a reliable way to grade any texts from easy to difficult. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction
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Affef Ghai; Sharif Alghazo – Open Education Studies, 2024
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Arabic, English
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Mathew, Mili; Yuen, Ivan; Demuth, Katherine – First Language, 2018
Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (e.g., deictic, iconic) from a very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This study investigated the use of "stroke-defined non-referential" 'beat' gestures in a story-retelling and an exposition task by twelve 6-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Phonology
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Katayama, Kumiko; Hashimoto, Kayoko – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Language immersion programs, which are a form of bilingual education, are shaped by multiple factors, including the specific characteristics of the region, the language, the community and the learners, as well as national and regional policies on language education. While the underdeveloped production skills of immersion students have been…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Dixon, Sally – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Within the Australian education system, Aboriginal students' use of non-standard English features is often viewed simplistically as evidence of non-attainment of literacy and oral-English milestones. One reason for this is the widespread use of assessment tools which fail to differentiate between native-English speakers and students who are…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Tognini, Rita; Philp, Jenefer; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper reports on a study of peer interaction in ten foreign language (FL) classes, six secondary and four primary, over a period of four months. The focus of this paper is the nature of peer interaction, including the purposes of second language use, and language choice. The data, comprising observation, audio and video recordings of five…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arsyad, Safnil – Online Submission, 2000
This study examined and compared the rhetorical structure of argumentative texts written by three groups of university students: 1) twenty Indonesian texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.I.); 2) ten English texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.E.); 3) ten English texts written by English native speakers (A.E.). Following the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Indonesian, Cultural Differences