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Yoke Lian Lau – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Three categories of audio recordings, a web service platform, and commercial software were involved in this analysis process. The three categories of audio recordings included eight filtered student recordings, an audio recording provided by a Mandarin instructor from University Malaysia Sabah, and an audio recording generated by Text-to-Speech…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Acoustics, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Anwardeen, Nor Hafizah; Luyee, Eunice Ong; Gabriel, Joanna Indra; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper analyzes the results of a corpus-based study on the usage of metadiscourse in argumentative writing by Malaysian college students. The aims of the study is to examine the frequency and distribution of metadiscourse used by the particular students in argumentative writing as well as to analyze the errors that made by the particular…
Descriptors: College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Error Patterns
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Manokaran, Janaki; Ramalingam, Chithra; Adriana, Karen – English Language Teaching, 2013
This research is a corpus-based study of secondary and college ESL Malaysian learner's written work by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Past Tense Auxiliary "Be". This research studied the past tense auxiliary "be", types of past tense auxiliary "be" errors and frequency of past tense auxiliary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Morphemes, Verbs
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Jishvithaa, Joanna M.; Tabitha, M.; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This research paper aims to explore the usage of the English Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense Verb, using corpus based method among Malaysian form 4 and form 5 students. This study is conducted by identifying and classifying the types of errors in the Auxiliary "Be" Present Tense verb in students' compositions from the MCSAW corpus…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Second Language Learning
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Loke, Darina Lokeman; Ali, Juliana; Anthony, Norin Norain Zulkifli – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions of time presented in the argumentative essays of Form 4 and Form 5 Malaysian secondary students in the MCSAW corpus. The aims were to find out the distribution patterns and the common errors in the use of preposition of time, "on" and "at". This corpus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Arjan, Asmeza; Abdullah, Noor Hayati; Roslim, Norwati – English Language Teaching, 2013
This corpus-based study examined the usage, mastery and developmental pattern (Norwati, 2004) of English prepositions of place, "in" and "on" across three different academic levels namely Form 4, Form 5 and College students. The Malaysian Corpus of Students Argumentative Writing (MCSAW) was used as the source of data in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hassan, Sharifah Zakiah Wan; Hakim, Simon Faizal; Rahim, Mahdalela; Noyem, John Francis; Ibrahim, Sueb; Ahmad, Johnny; Jusoff, Kamaruzaman – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study explores Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Sarawak graduating students' oral proficiency, focusing on grammatical accuracy. Oral proficiency in English has always been the benchmark of language proficiency, and in the context of UiTM's language teaching curriculum, efforts to enhance students' oral proficiency are implemented through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning