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Peer reviewedHinkel, Eli – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 2001
Analyzes the extensive use of personal examples and stories in the academic essays of students who are nonnative speakers of English. Draws on a large database of college examination essays to compare the use of personal examples in essays written by native and nonnative speakers. Finds nonnative students not only use examples more often than…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the relational nature of humor, (2) pragmatism and transaction, (3) within-channel redundancy versus between-channel redundancy in instructional material and its association with…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1988
Ten articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "Contrastive Grammar: Theory and Practice" (F. Aarts and H. Wekker); "On the Semantic and Morphological Status of Reversative Verbs in English and German" (W.-P. Funk); "The Problem of Directionality in…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Annotated Bibliographies, Arabic, Arabs
