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Daniel W. J. Anson – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Large Language Models have already begun to affect the higher education landscape. However, there is currently a lack of work investigating how these models interface -- and possibly interfere -- with literacy development. Considering literacy is critical because student learning is only made possible through language. This paper considers…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Computational Linguistics, Guidelines, Risk
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Bouziri, Basma – Applied Linguistics, 2021
In this article, a tripartite interpersonal model is proposed to analyze academic lectures delivered in English. The model combines two approaches to metadiscourse: the reflexive or narrow approach (Mauranen 1993; Ädel 2006), and the interpersonal or broad approach (Hyland 2005, 2019). The criteria adopted by the reflexive approach were exploited…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Foreign Countries, Lecture Method, Discourse Analysis
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Flowerdew, Lynne – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This short article reviews key corpus-based pedagogic initiatives in the spirit of the Swalesian tradition of genre analysis. Pedagogic genres covered include report writing, thesis writing, writing a grant proposal and legal essay writing. More recently, attention has been paid to the writing of research articles by postgraduate students for whom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Computational Linguistics
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Lu, Xiaofei; Casal, J. Elliott; Liu, Yingying – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This paper outlines the research agenda of a framework that integrates corpus- and genre-based approaches to academic writing research and pedagogy. This framework posits two primary goals of academic writing pedagogy, that is, to help novice writers develop knowledge of the rhetorical functions characteristic of academic discourse and become…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Research, Computational Linguistics, Decision Making
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McCarthy, Michael – Language Teaching, 2020
Business English and academic English may perhaps be thought of as areas of language use requiring precision of expression and a quest for specific and unambiguous meaning. However, corpus evidence shows that both types of language, in their spoken contexts, exhibit noticeable use of the kinds of vague expressions found in everyday conversation.…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Academic Purposes, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Oravi?an, Alexandru; Chitez, Madalina; Bercuci, Loredana; Rogobete, Roxana – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Learner corpora of written texts from academic writing assignments provide a practical resource for students, particularly in fostering academic writing skills. One such corpus is the newly available ROGER (Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres), a bilingual comparable corpus containing learner discipline-specific academic writing data in Romanian…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Academic Language, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure
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Akbari, Alireza – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Much progress has been made in the areas of diminishing, avoiding, and resisting plagiarism, due to the recent development of plagiarism tools. Many scholars/authors across the globe have been struggling with plagiarism, giving a number of lectures and writing articles pinpointing strategies that take into account on-line plagiarism services such…
Descriptors: Translation, Plagiarism, Integrity, Prevention
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Stander, Marga – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
The importance of plagiarism in an academic setting cannot be overlooked. Creating an awareness of plagiarism avoidance amongst students may be achievable and teaching students certain skills to avoid plagiarism, like paraphrasing, may also be possible. Although paraphrasing is one of the most important skills for avoiding plagiarism, it is a real…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning