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Nujood Al-Reshaid; Ahmad I. Alhojailan – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Academic writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) poses challenges for graduate students, particularly in achieving coherence and organization. Thematic choices play a crucial role in guiding readers and ensuring textual cohesion. While Theme selection has been explored in various contexts, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Literary Genres, Writing Strategies, Semantics
Teaching Figures of Speech as a Productive Skill and Its Influence on EFL Learners' Creative Writing
Jaashan, Hasan Mohammed Saleh – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Richards (2015) states that receptive competence is far more developed in all language users than productive competence and that in L2 learning, new lexis first shows as passive knowledge and later as active or productive competence. Moreover, productive competence is not a natural corollary to receptive competence; rather, the former requires…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Shet, Jayashree Premkumar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study is based on the results of the research which aimed (1) to identify the cohesive devices used by Leo Tolstoy in "A grain as Big as a Hen's Egg as proposed by Halliday & Hasan and (2) to find whether substitution and ellipsis from the same story could be identified by the seven English Major students doing the Discourse Analysis…
Descriptors: Literature, Literary Genres, Authors, Grammar
Bukhari, Shahinaz Abdullah – Arab World English Journal, 2022
English is a language with a rigid word order, whereas Arabic is more flexible. Canonical English word order is often a challenge for users whose first language is flexible. This study explores how Arabic learners transfer their knowledge of Arabic word order styles into the English language, and it compares Arabic learners' use of English word…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Aims: Since many Saudi ESL students studying abroad have limited vocabulary and grammar knowledge and poor reading comprehension skills, this article proposes the integration of linguistic landscapes (LLs) in teaching English to Saudi students studying abroad to supplement the English language courses and textbooks they study. Definition of LLs:…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Study Abroad
Deveci, Tanju – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Language used to report research findings and put forward arguments is at the heart of effective communication with readers. To this end, scholars use a variety of stylistic features. One of these is variety in language, which includes structures, lexis, and organization markers. Although much research has been conducted on these aspects, a…
Descriptors: Reflection, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2014
Students at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT) take an Islamic Translation course in which they practice translating different kinds of Islamic texts (genres) including excerpts from the Holy Quran and the Prophet's Sayings. The aims of the present article are to introduce the students to the history of the translation of the Holy…
Descriptors: Translation, Islam, Literary Genres, Religious Factors
Akbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics