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Direct linkMallette, Jennifer – Composition Studies, 2017
This article describes the ENGL 1023 Composition II course at the University of Arkansas, generally taken in the second semester of a student's first year and is taught within the context of literary studies or as a special topics section approved by the program in rhetoric and composition (PRC). The course is meant to be an introduction to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Intellectual Disciplines
Zareva, Alla – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
The purpose of the present study is to shed some light on the subtle interplay between oral and written academic genres in the context of graduate student academic presentations. The analysis was based on a corpus of successful TESOL graduate student academic presentations (n = 20) with a focus on the genre identity roles students encode in their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Written Language, Oral Language
Difficulties in Academic Writing: From the Perspective of King Saud University Postgraduate Students
Download full textAl Fadda, Hind – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine what difficulties King Saud University students encounter when learning to write academic English and to differentiate between students' learning needs and objectives. The sample consisted of 50 postgraduate students enrolled in King Saud University during the academic year 2009-2010. Analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition)
Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
One of the major innovations of the "TOEFL iBT"® test is the incorporation of integrated tasks complementing the independent tasks to which examinees respond. In addition, examinees must produce discourse in both modes (speech and writing). The validity argument for the TOEFL iBT includes the claim that examinees vary their discourse in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
