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Kuteeva, Maria – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
Genre-based approaches are widely used in academic writing courses for graduate students. Yet, despite numerous studies of academic discourses and genres, there is still little research focusing on the learner in ESP genre-based instruction, and further consideration of individual learners' responses to genre pedagogy is needed. This article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Grounded Theory, Graduate Students
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Stoller, Fredricka L.; Robinson, Marin S. – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
This article highlights aspects of an interdisciplinary (chemistry-applied linguistics) English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course- and materials-development project. The project was aimed at raising genre awareness among chemistry students and faculty, in addition to improving students' disciplinary reading and writing. As part of the project,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Applied Linguistics, Journal Articles, Audiences
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Zareva, Alla – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
The purpose of the present study is to shed some light on the subtle interplay between oral and written academic genres in the context of graduate student academic presentations. The analysis was based on a corpus of successful TESOL graduate student academic presentations (n = 20) with a focus on the genre identity roles students encode in their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Written Language, Oral Language
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Uhrig, Karl – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
The framework of genre systems (Bazerman, 1994; Bhatia, 2004; Swales, 2004) offers an opportunity to illuminate the ways in which students enculturate into their disciplinary cultures (Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995). To explore the ways in which genre chains are constructed through engagement in specific tasks, this study investigates two…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Case Studies, Language Styles, Foreign Students
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Karoly, Adrienn – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This paper reports the findings of a study aiming to reveal the recurring patterns of lexical, syntactic and textual errors in student translations of a specialized EU genre from English into Hungarian. By comparing the student translations to the official translation of the text, this article uncovers the most frequent errors that students made…
Descriptors: Translation, Syntax, Language Styles, English
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Thogersen, Jacob; Airey, John – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This paper investigates the consequences of L2 use in university lectures. Data in the study stem from parallel lectures held by the same experienced lecturer in Danish (L1) and English (L2). It is found that the lecturer takes 22% longer to present the same content in L2 compared to L1, and that the lecturer speaks 23% more slowly in L2 than in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
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Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This article examines the language-related challenges that first-year students face when adjusting to the demands of English-medium higher education in Hong Kong. The article is based on the findings of a longitudinal study which tracked the university careers of 28 students from a range of backgrounds via in-depth, semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Higher Education, Intervals, Learning Strategies
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Flowerdew, John; Wan, Alina – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
By means of an analysis of the genre of the audit report, this study highlights the respective roles of linguistic and contextual analysis in genre analysis, if the results are to be of maximum use in ESP course design. On the one hand, based on a corpus of current and authentic written auditors' reports produced in a large international Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
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Cheng, An – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
The interaction between learner characteristics, including learners' histories and goals of learning, and learners' analysis and production of target genres remains a topic of continuing interest in the genre-based literacy framework. This case study documented an L2 graduate student's individualized engagement with genre in both her reading and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Familiarity, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Matsuda, Paul Kei; Tardy, Christine M. – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
Some researchers have argued that voice is irrelevant to academic writing and that the importance of voice has been overstated in the professional literature [Helms-Park, R., & Stapleton, P. (2003). Questioning the importance of individualized voice in undergraduate L2 argumentative writing: an empirical study with pedagogical implications.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse, Peer Evaluation
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Martinez, Iliana A. – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Reports on the way in which impersonal constructions encoded in the transitivity structure are used in experimental research articles, allowing writers to strategically distance themselves from the information they present. Focuses on clusters of features of the transitivy structure that characterize the genre, their relation to the specific goals…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Research Reports, Scholarly Journals, Scholarly Writing
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Upton, Thomas A.; Connor, Ulla – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Argues that corpus-based text analysis should be going beyond the analysis of lexicogrammatical features to investigate the specific genre features of text. A study of politeness strategies used by Finns, Americans, and Belgians in a learner corpus of letters of application found that Americans tended to be much more patterned--even formulaic--in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Special Purposes, Language Styles, Letters (Correspondence)
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Badger, Richard – English for Specific Purposes, 2003
Discusses the use of law reports in English for academic legal purposes (EALP) instruction. Examines problems with using reports in the EALP classroom and focuses on the more widely available newspaper law reports. Offers a description that draws on Martin's (1992) context of culture in order to identify important social and cultural factors and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Higher Education, Language Styles
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Henry, Alex; Roseberry, Robert L. – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Many genre analyses have been carried out in English for specific purposes settings, but none has made full use of computer analysis to obtain exact linguistic information on the moves and strategies of a genre. This article reports a genre analysis, complemented by the Wordsmith suite of computer programs for corpus analysis, of the moves and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
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Rodriguez, M. d. R. Caballero – English for Specific Purposes, 2003
Explores the role and function of metaphor in the genre of the building review within architecture discourse and suggests ways in which research into its textual and communicative function might be useful to those involved in creating English for special purposes materials for students of architecture whose first language is not English.…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Instructional Materials
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