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Haibo Shen; Michael Singh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The monolingual English norm in current education and academic discourse has continuously marginalised the linguistic and theoretical resources in languages other than English. Drawing upon evidence from Chinese bilingual postgraduate researchers and their supervisors, this paper reconsiders their potentials for bilingual theorising with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Graduate Students, Researchers
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Wenqi Cui; Jing Zhang; Dana Lynn Driscoll – Writing Center Journal, 2022
Writing centers seek to expand their services beyond tutoring and develop evidence-based practices. Continuing and expanding the existing practices, the authors have adopted graduate writing groups (GWGs) to support graduate writers, especially those working on independent writing projects like a dissertation or article for publication. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Doctoral Dissertations
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Rezvani, Reza; Miri, Parisa – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
This study investigates how sensitizing graduate L2 students about source-text use might affect their citation practices. Two summary writing tasks involving two similar published articles, one irrelevant and one pertinent to source-text use, were assigned individually to 16 graduate English language teaching students from Iran. After completing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Graduate Students
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Worawanna Petchkij – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
Studies examining how EFL learners paraphrase hedges in scientific statements are still rare even though how learners use hedges in academic writing has been extensively investigated. This study compared paraphrasing strategies that Thai (TH) and non-Thai (NTH) EFL medical science graduate students used to paraphrase given hedges appearing in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Zhe Zheng; Luke Lawrence – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Over the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of international students enrolling in postgraduate courses at UK universities, with students from China making up the single largest national group. At the same time, there has been a gradual increase in Chinese teachers and faculty members, as these same students continue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Students
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Saeed, Murad Abdu; Al Qunayeer, Huda Suleiman; AL-Jaberi, Musheer Abdulwahid – SAGE Open, 2021
Despite the emphasis on effective supervisory feedback formulation on postgraduates' academic writing, our understanding of effective feedback forms may not be comprehensive without mentoring students' responses to feedback. Therefore, the current case study explores feedback formulation on research proposal writing and two postgraduates'…
Descriptors: Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Supervisors, Graduate Students, Student Reaction
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Mary Davis; John Morley – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
This study is about student writers' development of their own approaches to using formulaic phrases from a compendium (Academic Phrasebank). While the essential role of formulaic phrases in academic texts has been well established in research, teaching about the effective use of these phrases is not widely available, and little attention has been…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Language, English, Undergraduate Students
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Farsani, Mohammad Amini; Aghamohammadi, Nahid – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Recent studies have highlighted the significance of learners' engagement with written corrective feedback (WCF). However, comparative studies exploring graduate students' engagement (i.e., cognitive, affective, and behavioral) with peers and teachers' feedback in an L2 writing course is scarce. Hence, this multiple case study, using various…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Relationship, Feedback (Response)
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Ahlam Ali Salim Halali; Lilliati Ismail; Arshad Abd Samad; Abu Bakar Razali; Nooreen Noordin – Journal of International Students, 2023
Intellectual engagement is essential for international students' academic success. However, academic speaking challenges associated with communicative language anxiety and inadequate prior learning experience could impede students' academic communication abilities in foreign universities. Thus, students adopt academic speaking strategies to tackle…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
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Pham, V. P. Ho – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Earlier research efforts have succeeded in training students to enhance their skills commenting on peer writing and using peer and lecturer comments to revise their writing, but few studies have investigated (1) the effect of the lecturer's e-comments on the quality of peer e-comments, and (2) the relative effectiveness of lecturer and peer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Peer Evaluation, Revision (Written Composition)
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Yuvayapan, Fatma; Bilginer, Hayriye – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Academic writing practices constitute central processes through which students learn the conventions of their disciplines to meet the expectations of their academic communities. Therefore, academic writing courses should touch on the specific dimensions of it. One of the most prominent requirements of these courses is to identify the needs of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Needs, Academic Language, Content Area Writing
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Urbieta, Alexandra Santamaría; Peñalver, Elena Alcalde – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
The aim of this study is to assess the needs and perceived difficulties of students of a master's degree on Bilingual Education who have had to work on a master's dissertation in English. First, some relevant studies in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) will be reviewed, with a specific focus on those that tackle the challenges that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Research Projects, Orientation Materials
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Santelmann, Lynn M.; Stevens, Dannelle D.; Martin, Staci B. – College Teaching, 2018
Proficiency in writing is crucial for success in graduate school. While doctoral student writing has received attention in the research literature, little research has focused on master's student writing. Master's students need to be skilled writers in their professional lives, and have the same if not greater need for writing instruction as other…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Metacognition, Self Control
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Khazaal, Edhah Numan – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Writing is one of the essential poles of language learning, and should be one of the senior interest, and concern to teachers, students, and researchers. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of using the summarizing strategy on postgraduates 'learners. To develop the summary writing skills, two months implementation is applied to…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ebadi, Saman; Pourahmadi, Fereshteh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
This study is intended to explore challenges in writing master theses from postgraduate English as Foreign Language (EFL) students' and supervisors' perspectives. To do so, 40 EFL postgraduate students and 10 supervisors were selected nonrandomly based on availability sampling from five major Iranian universities. Qualitative data were gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
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