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Sophea, Yin; Chanyoo, Natthapong – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the tendency to use temporal markers (TMs) in English writing by three different levels of Thai writers. Data used in this study were based on the Corpus of Thai Writers of English. The corpus size of approximately 8,800,000 words consisted of essay writing produced by intermediate and advanced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Li, Xi-ping – English Language Teaching, 2021
Writing is one of productive skills and a way of conveying information considered to be the most complex and the most challenging skill for EFL English learners to acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on the revelation of the characteristic of writings of EFL learners and how to improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Huang, Danyan – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study aims to explore the potential use of sentence tree-structure in English grammar teaching in college. After combining Schema Theory and Lexical Chunk Theory, the writer proposed the sentence tree-structure tool and tried to apply it in one of her grammar classes in college. During the teaching process, students were asked to analyze long…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ningling, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2015
Prominence, as an important dimension of cognitive construal, refers to the capacity to evoke a certain substructure as the focus of attention, which can be materialized in a variety of semantic and grammatical expressions (Langacker, 1987). Subject of a sentence (Zhang, 2011) and specific sentence structures (Lin, 2013) can bring a substructure…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students, Asians
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Shi, Jing – English Language Teaching, 2013
The Comprehensive English Course (CEC) plays a vital role in English language learning for college students in China. However, students' motivation for this course is low due to the fact that they are bored with the instructivist-based teaching environment. This paper first reviews the theories of Constructivism, and then demonstrates how to apply…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Constructivism (Learning)
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Rahim, Mia Emily Abdul; Rahim, Emma Marini Abdul; Ning, Chia Han – English Language Teaching, 2013
The study aimed to investigate the distribution patterns of the English grammar articles (a, an, and the) as well as the distributions of their colligation patterns in written compositions of English among Malaysian ESL learners. This paper reports the results of a corpus-based study on articles used by these learners. The method used in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning