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Kaixuan Gong; Hongmei Pang – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Research on English for academic purposes (EAP) has mainly adopted a product-oriented view, but rather rarely observed academic writing as a learning process. From the socio-cognitive perspective of learning, the present study investigated first-year EAP learners' self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies for and beliefs about academic writing and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English for Academic Purposes, Independent Study, Student Attitudes
Ian Alexander – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study examines the second language academic discourse socialization of two Chinese students who attended British Columbia (Canada) offshore schools in China. After an overview of offshore school structures in China, this article describes the perspectives and experiences of recent offshore school graduates interviewed at a Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Academic Language, Socialization
Angelos Charalampous; Maria Darra – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
The role of teacher's feedback in the teaching and learning process is extremely important as it allows educators to provide an objective assessment of a student's performance and help them improve their academic achievements. In this paper, the findings of a comprehensive literature review, conducted using the PRISMA methodology, encompassing 19…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Student Improvement
Shiping Duan; Zhiliang Shi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigates the use of formulaic sequences (FS) in academic writings of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language across different levels of studies at a public university in China. Frequency-based formulas were retrieved from a corpus of student academic texts written at five time points between Year 1 and Year 3. The…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhang, Meixiu – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Pair dynamics has received much attention in collaborative writing (CW) research. Prior research on the link between pair dynamics and L2 learning opportunities (often operationalized as language related episodes; LREs) in CW has primarily focused on the quantity, length, and outcome of LREs, but rarely considered the quality of the LREs. Also,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Collaborative Writing, Academic Language
Jing Yan; Yu Zhu; Xinrong Ye – SAGE Open, 2024
Research on how peer feedback affects second language (L2) writing in higher education has been limited. This study examines the impact of peer feedback on revision and literature review writing in learners of Chinese as an L2 at a university in mainland China. The study analyzed feedback, revisions, and writing performance of 30 students. The…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Literature Reviews
Chen, Shukun; Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Yu, Wei – SAGE Open, 2022
Adopting the framework of projection from Systemic Functional Linguistics, the present study explored the deployment of projection in summary writing by three levels of college EFL learners from a university in mainland China. Data were collected from one summary writing by three classes of different levels' learners in an English program from a…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Jian Xu; Wanyu Amy Ou – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This qualitative study examines Chinese returnee scholars' language practices in teaching and research and their identity construction during their early career years. Using interviews and drawing upon poststructuralist identity theory, it examines the adaptations of twelve Chinese bilingual returnee scholars to new academic communities in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yang, Rong; Hu, Guangwei; Lei, Jun – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
This study explores Chinese English-major students' intertextual competence and factors shaping their ability to paraphrase in academic writing. Multiple instruments were employed to collect data from 212 English-major students at different academic levels from nine universities in mainland China. The data were analyzed to determine how a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Academic Language
Wilby, James – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This programme evaluation study examined the changes in writing motivation, self-regulation and integrated writing task scores of international students over the course of a pre-sessional course on English for academic purposes (EAP). In addition, the study also investigated the relationship between writing task motivation, self-regulation, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Congcong Xing; Guanglun Michael Mu; Deborah Henderson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With English hegemony sustained in 'multicultural' Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Universities, Sociology, Resilience (Psychology)
Teng, Mark Feng – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Research shows that acquisition of writing skills can be supported by metacognitive strategy training. However, research on incorporating metacognitive guidance for collaborative writing is scarce. The current study explores the potential effectiveness of incorporating metacognitive prompts, that is, a form of metacognitive guidance, into…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Prompting, Collaborative Writing, Academic Language
Wang, Jianli; Qin, Limin Tony – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
This paper reports on a pilot course responding to facilitating academic writing for an academic writing program implemented at a provincial key university in China. Taken from an activity theoretical perspective, it discusses the practical experience collected during a pilot process of designing, implementing, and assessing a genre-based approach…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Evaluation, Graduate Students, English for Academic Purposes
Cavnar, Tim – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines how the transmission of language ideologies on a US campus shapes Chinese international students' experiences regarding English academic writing. The study is motivated by past research that demonstrates the challenges of mastering English academic writing, particularly for people who did not speak English early in life.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Academic Language, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
Kun Dai; Ian Hardy; Yuxiao Jiang – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
An increasing number of international students pursue doctoral studies in China, a non-traditional learning destination compared with English-dominated Western countries. Despite considerable research on the challenges doctoral students face when writing theses in English in Western countries, relatively few studies have explored comparable issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing (Composition)