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Download full textBinmahboob, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the use of metadiscourse tools by Saudi and British authors in Applied Linguistics discipline. In particular, the study tried to identify the kinds of metadiscourse markers used by Saudi and English authors in ALRAs and to determine the most and least frequent metadiscourse makers. In order to achieve these goals, (10)…
Descriptors: Authors, Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Research Reports
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
Yang, Bei – English Language Teaching, 2016
As an important yet intricate linguistic feature in English language, synonymy poses a great challenge for second language learners. Using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as an analyzing tool, this article compares the usage of "learn" and "acquire" used in natural…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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
Chen, Jingwen – English Language Teaching, 2017
"Although" is a frequently used subordinating conjunction in English. However, non-nativeness is often observed in Chinese EFL learners' "although" output during pedagogical practice. This paper aims at exploring the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners' "although" employment in Chinese EFL learners' writing. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jaran, Samia A.; Al-Haq, Fawwaz Al-Abed – English Language Teaching, 2015
Languages tend to be modified to accommodate for the speakers needs, such as, discussing or dealing with certain topics and domains. An example, university students, in Jordan, modify their own language, being colloquial Arabic, with terms and expressions from the English language in order to interact and adapt to everyday college life. Due to…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Semitic Languages, Gender Differences, Questionnaires
Tian, Xiufeng – English Language Teaching, 2013
This article aims at the feature analysis of four expository essays (Text A/B/C/D) written by secondary school students with a focus on the differences between spoken and written language. Texts C and D are better written compared with the other two (Texts A&B) which are considered more spoken in language using. The language features are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English, Oral Language, Written Language
