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Lukas Homateni Julius; Sioux McKenna; Emmanuel Mgqwashu – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Success in higher education relates in part to competence in the medium of instruction. But the academic literacy literature provides compelling evidence that competence in the medium of instruction is insufficient to ensure success. Crucially, students need to take on the literacy practices of the discipline or field. This study offers a thematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Lehman, Iga Maria; Sulkowski, Lukasz – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
Our purpose in this study is to propose a voice model which provides a framework to analyse how student writers construct their authorial identities through the voices they employ in their texts and to test the effectiveness of the Lehman's rubric design as a measure of authorial voice. The voice model, which features individualised, collective…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Essays, Scoring Rubrics
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Hasrati, Mostafa; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019
Although dissertations have traditionally been part of master's programmes, non-dissertation track master's programmes are on the rise across the world. This paper reports faculty views on MA TESOL dissertations (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in five Anglophone countries. Drawing on the academic literacies tradition and informed…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Wu, Greg Chung-Hsien; Lau, Ken – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
Senior-year admitted students (SYAS) in Hong Kong, similar to community college transfer students in the U.S., refers to a cohort of sub-degree programme graduates who are admitted to a top-up bachelor's degree programme. Despite increasing SYAS intakes in Hong Kong universities, published studies on the teaching of SYAS are still scarce. This…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Literacy, College Seniors, College Transfer Students
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Xu, Linlin; Hu, Jiehui – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
We draw on Bakhtin's dialogic construct of 'double-voicedness' to explore Chinese international doctoral students' responses to their non-Chinese supervisors' language feedback and their reasoning of the responses. Results show that the students respond to supervisors' language feedback in four ways: no revision, faithful revision, extended…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Doctoral Students, Feedback (Response)