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Direct linkCoxhead, Averil; Byrd, Pat – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2007
Over the years, substantial shifts in theory, belief, and practice have occurred in the teaching of language, specifically vocabulary, grammar, or their combination in lexicogrammatical features of a language as part of the writing class or curriculum (Paltridge, 2004; Reid, 1993, 2006). Much of the instruction in L2 writing for adult learners who…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Adult Learning, Writing Teachers, Prose
Download full textDavison, Alice – 1980
One factor that contributes to the difficulty that a reader may encounter when reading a text is the syntactic complexity of the constructions used in the text. Examples of altered text constructions include the transformations of subjects of subordinate clauses, making them either the subjects or the objects of main clauses. When the conditions…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Language Styles
Giunchi, Paola – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This article discusses various studies that deal with understanding written and oral discourse and demonstrates the implications of these studies for second language teaching. (CFM)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
