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Abhinan Wongkittiporn – African Educational Research Journal, 2025
Writing a topic sentence is difficult, as a variety of linguistic knowledge is required to represent the main idea of the whole paragraph. This study applies the mechanism of A-movement in generative syntax to observe syntactic structures, semantic denotations and pragmatic aspects of topic sentences in applied linguistics research articles. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Journal Articles, Language Research, Sentences
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Habib Abdesslem; Abhinan Wongkittiporn – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study examined givenness in discourse via passive constructions in research articles. While it is commonly held in grammar books and grammar classes that the passive voice is the counterpart of the active voice, the present study argues that Argument movement in passive constructions can act as a syntactic device contributing to sound…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Research, Morphemes, Grammar
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Klieve, Sharon; Eadie, Patricia; Graham, Lorraine; Leitão, Suze – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Understanding what is known about the language profiles of children with hearing loss (CHL) is vital so that researchers and teachers can identify the specific complex syntactic structures that CHL may struggle to master. An understanding of which aspects of complex syntax pose difficulties for CHL is necessary to inform the kind of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Hearing Impairments, Syntax, Language Acquisition
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Laleh Khojasteh; Jayakaran Mukundan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
This systematic review explores the evolution and impact of corpus-based methodologies in textbook analysis within the field of language education between 2010 and 2024. Utilizing the PRISMA framework, 29 studies were identified and analyzed, highlighting the transition from basic frequency analyses to sophisticated examinations of lexical,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Semantics
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Lestari, Nurdiyah; Yusuf, St. Muthmainnah; Basri, K. Ivo; Suciati, S.; Masykuri, Mohammad – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2020
Learning resources and learning models are the two main components that determine learning success. Of the many learning models, Problem-based Learning (PBL) is one of the most recommended in biology learning. The purpose of this content analysis was to identify the emergence of PBL syntax in junior high school biology textbooks. The population in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Syntax, Junior High School Students
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Atar, Cihat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The Processability Theory suggests that teachability and learn ability of a language is constrained by what learners are ready to acquire. This means that what is presented to the learners should be in line with their level and readiness. Textbooks are one of the fundamental resources of language learning and teaching, and in this sense, analyzing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Learning Readiness
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Jung, Ji-Yung – English Teaching, 2020
The Cognition Hypothesis postulates that more cognitively complex tasks can trigger more accurate and complex language production, thereby advancing second language (L2) development. However, few studies have directly examined the relationship between task manipulations and L2 development. To address this gap, this article reviews, via an analytic…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Schenck, Andrew – English Teaching, 2019
This study examined how key factors of FFI (degree of explicitness, L1 similarity, proficiency level, and grammar type) influence the accuracy of production. A total of 22 experimental studies, all of which had Korean participants and productive assessments of speech or writing, were selected for analysis. Results revealed that explicit grammar…
Descriptors: Grammar, Korean, Native Language, Accuracy
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Malec, Alesia; Peterson, Shelley Stagg; Elshereif, Heba – Canadian Journal of Education, 2017
A systematic review of research on oral language assessments for four-to-eight-year- old children was undertaken to support a six-year action research project aimed toward co-creating classroom oral language assessment tools with teachers in northern rural and Indigenous Canadian communities. Through an extensive screening process, 10 studies were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Oral Language, Language Tests
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Fraser, Vikki; Llewellyn, Gwynnyth – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Background: News media frames public perceptions. As such, news media becomes a useful source of analysis to understand the presence (or otherwise) of people with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, within parenting discourses in Australia. Method: Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this article examines major Australian…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, News Reporting, Foreign Countries, Public Opinion
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Young-Scholten, Martha – Second Language Research, 2013
Since the 1980s' decoupling of the formal study of second language acquisition from pedagogical concerns, the social relevance of such research has been of little concern. Early studies, in the 1970s, of uninstructed adult learners' acquisition of morphosyntax pointed to social implications: these working class immigrants had varying levels of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Educational Attainment, Poverty, Second Language Learning
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Menon, Sujatha; Mukundan, Jayakaran – International Education Studies, 2012
This paper analyses the discourse of science through the study of collocational patterns of high frequency noun keywords in science textbooks used by upper secondary students in Malaysia. Research has shown that one of the areas of difficulty in science discourse concerns lexis, especially that of collocations. This paper describes a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Nouns, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Kaweera, Chittima – English Language Teaching, 2013
This paper aims to review the theoretical concept of interlingual interference of the mother tongue, Thai to the target language, English and intralingual interference found in EFL student writing in Thai context with the attempt to define the existence of errors according to their sources. This review article also exemplifies some frequent errors…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interference (Language), Native Language
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McKenzie, Malcolm – Language and Communication, 1987
Discusses the grammatical and syntactical indicators of Free Indirect Speech (FIS) at an intrasentential level. Particular focus is on cases where the difference between straight narrative or diegitic report and the representation of speech in FIS is rendered problematic because their formal indicators are indistinguishable. (11 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Speech Communication
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D'Souza, Jean – World Englishes, 1991
Examines the form and function of a selected set of utterances from Indian English fiction to determine to what extent they conform to or differ from comparable data from the native varieties of English. (28 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Fiction, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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