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Pan, Jiejing – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on the Communicative Action Theory, intersubjectivity theory and the interpersonal classification of metadiscourse, this study makes a comparison between the source texts and the English-translated texts of Chinese company profiles with a self-built parallel corpus, along the dimensions of lexical variation, lexical density, grammatical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Translation, Computational Linguistics, Classification
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Li, Xi-ping – English Language Teaching, 2020
Situational Teaching plays a crucial role in English classroom teaching in Chinese Primary Schools; hence the relevant research prospers simultaneously. This study is devoted to reveal the research characteristic on English Situational Teaching in Primary Schools in the past 6 years. Result of contrastive analysis and survey of the essays…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Yanru – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the erroneous use of the high-frequency verb TAKE by the Chinese college learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), aiming to identify the similarities and differences between Chinese EFL learners, aimed at finding out more effective ways for the teaching and researching of the high-frequency verbs. Corpus-based…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ha, Do Thi – English Language Teaching, 2017
The paper explores how various teaching methods, namely Phonology-Based Instruction (PBI) and Translation-Based Instruction (TBI), have an effect on students' acquisition of formulaic sequences. 20 multiword expressions were taught to 48 Vietnamese EFL students from three intact classes as 2 treatment groups (PBI and TBI) and 1 control group.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonology
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Wuttisrisiriporn, Niwat – English Language Teaching, 2017
Genre analysis is today's dominant approach for textual analysis, especially in the ESP learning and teaching profession. Adopting this approach, the present study compares the Introduction chapters of MA theses in ELT (English Language Teaching) written by Thai students to those written by American university students based on the move-step…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Models
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Uçar, Serpil; Yükselir, Ceyhun – English Language Teaching, 2017
This research was conducted to investigate how frequently Turkish advanced learners of English use the logical connector "thus" in their academic prose and to investigate whether it was overused, underused or misused semantically in comparison to English native speakers. The data were collected from three corpora; Corpus of Contemporary…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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AL-Malki, Eidhah Abdullah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Omar, Noor Abidah Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1999 by Biber et al. (p. 266) generic article uses are more than twice as common in academic English than in conversation or fiction. This is an area that English for Academic Purpose (EPA) textbooks and teachers would need to target more than general English teaching. This paper is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Indonesian Languages, Grammar, English (Second Language)