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Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
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McCarthy, Philip M.; Kaddoura, Noor W.; Ahmed, Khawlah; Buck, Rachel Hall; Thomas, Anuja M.; Al-harthy, Ayah; Duran, Nicholas D. – English Language Teaching, 2021
Incorporating counterarguments can be challenging for many student-writers, including those for whom English is a second or other language. In this study, we present findings that may lead to improvements in students' understanding of the benefits of integrating counterarguments. In our study, expert readers were presented with excerpts of student…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
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He, Chunyan; Wei, Xueyan – English Language Teaching, 2019
Using 328 papers published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals from the Web of Science between 2009 and 2018, this study analyzed corpus' influences in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) research with mapping knowledge domains CiteSpace. This study found that the relationship between international EAP studies and corpus tends to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis
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Uba, Sani Yantandu Uba – English Language Teaching, 2020
The aim of conducting this study came from a need to explore contrastive study in using metadiscourse features between English and Hausa in research article genre. This study investigated what metadiscourse features are frequently used across two languages in research article genre. A sub-corpus of ten research articles was compiled from each…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, African Languages, Discourse Analysis
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Liao, Linyu – English Language Teaching, 2020
As a high-stakes standardized test, IELTS is expected to have comparable forms of test papers so that test takers from different test administration on different dates receive comparable test scores. Therefore, this study examined the text difficulty and task characteristics of four parallel academic IELTS reading tests to reveal to what extent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, High Stakes Tests
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Lyu, Meng; Gee, Roger W. – English Language Teaching, 2020
The general question this research investigates concerns the difference between the use of lexical bundles in a corpus of abstracts for theses in the liberal arts written by Chinese undergraduate students and a corpus of abstracts written by American master's degree students. The undergraduate abstracts were first written in Chinese and then…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Masters Theses, Liberal Arts