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Shoshannah Brienz Jenni Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The employment of genre-based pedagogy and Task-Based Language Teaching in second language education is representative of a paradigmatic shift towards a focus on meaning-making. Despite this shift, second language acquisition (SLA) research continues to predominantly rely on complexity, accuracy, and fluency metrics to assess learner production…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Electronic Mail
Miles-Morillo, Lynne Jeanne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study tracks changes in three primary characteristics of Early New High German (ENHG) publications from 1499 to 1710: the complexity of the syntactic system of the language, the pictorial saturation of the publications, and the relationship between verbal text and illustrations on the ENHG printed page. Drawing on findings from literary…
Descriptors: Semantics, German, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Schulze, Joshua – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the potential of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) pedagogy to support English language learners (ELLs) in enhancing their meaning making potential as they engage in persuasive writing practices within academic contexts. The dissertation results from a teacher action research project in which the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Language Learners