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McGrath, Lisa; Kuteeva, Maria – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Recent ESP research into academic writing has shown how writers convey their stance and interact with readers across different disciplines. However, little research has been carried out into the disciplinary writing practices of the pure mathematics academic community from an ESP genre analysis perspective. This study begins to address this gap by…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Interviews, Epistemology, Mathematics Instruction
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Wharton, Sue – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This article examines the stance options used by writers responding to a data description task in the discipline of Statistics. Based on a small learner corpus, it uses inductive qualitative content analysis to explore both the content propositions that students included in their writing, and the ways in which they expressed evaluative stance…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Epistemology, Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis
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Perez-Llantada, Carmen; Plo, Ramon; Ferguson, Gibson R. – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This paper is a contribution to an expanding literature on the challenges non-Anglophone academics confront in disseminating their research in English, the dominant language of international scientific communication. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with senior Spanish academics, who remain a relatively little researched academic community…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse
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Camiciottoli, Belinda Crawford – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
An increasing number of European students are taking advantage of Erasmus mobility programs to study in a foreign country. This has brought to the forefront their special needs as L2 learners, which presents some unique challenges for EAP/ESP researchers and practitioners working in European universities. A case in point is represented by problems…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, English (Second Language), Study Abroad, Foreign Countries