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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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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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Giannoni, Davide Simone – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
Journal editorials allow readers to select the most deserving contributions in the literature and adopt approaches or procedures endorsed by an authority in the field; they act as gatekeepers to the community of practice and at the same time allow editors to connect directly with their readership. Following a number of studies on the structure and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Applied Linguistics, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Moore, Tim – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Investigates variation in knowledge construction in three disciplines--sociology, economics, and physics--by drawing on Halliday' s notion of "metaphenomenon." Specifically, the study analyzed the frequency and type of agentive elements in textbooks to find the extent to which knowledge in these disciplines is attributed to individual scholars,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Economics, English (Second Language), Physics
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Feak, C. B.; Reinhart, S. M.; Sinsheimer, A. – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Analyzes published student written legal research papers that can serve as a model for the teaching of seminar paper writing. Focuses on the introductory sections, and shows how they are both similar and different from those found in research article introductions as described in Swales (1990). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Higher Education, Law Students, Models
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Henderson, Willie – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Discusses whether the "Economist" magazine is a suitable source for the analysis of the language of economics, and argues that its discourse is essentially journalistic and very different from that of a textbook. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Economics, English for Special Purposes, Metaphors
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Green, Christopher F.; Christopher, Elsie R.; Mei, Jaquelin Lam Kam – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Focuses on how Chinese writers of academic texts in English have a tendency to place topic-fronting devices and logical connectors in sentence-initial position when introducing new information. A corpus of academic writing by Chinese subjects was tagged o detect occurrences of the above. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Higher Education
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Gledhill, Chris – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Characterizes the phraseology of introductions from a corpus of 150 cancer research articles. Explains the fixedness and idiosyncratic nature of scientific phraseology in terms of discourse processes such as reformulation. Argues for the design of a representative and specialized corpus of the research article and a contextual approach to corpus…
Descriptors: Cancer, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English for Special Purposes
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Soler, Viviana – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Explores frequency and use of adjectives in five advanced scientific texts on biochemistry and analyzes the semantic implications of the observed occurrence. The aim is to provide a better understanding of the role of adjectives in research articles and to suggest how to guide Spanish-speaking students to effectively comprehend, read, write, and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advanced Courses, Biochemistry, Discourse Analysis
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Hewings, Martin; Hewings, Ann – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Explores one grammatical feature of metadiscourse--clauses with an anticipatory "it" and extraposed subject. This feature is compared in two computerized corpora, one consisting of published journal articles from the field business studies and the second of MBA student dissertations written by nonnative speakers of English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Halimah, Ahmad M. – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Analyzed matched writing samples of 100 native Arabic speakers' writing on writing for science and technology (WST) topics in English and Arabic. Findings indicate that, though students have studied English-as-a-foreign-language writing for 8 years, and are judged to be good at the mechanics and lexis and grammar, they still have trouble with WST…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Students, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology