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The Effects of Input Enhancement and Text Length on Adult L2 Readers' Comprehension and Intake in Second Language Acquisition.

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Leow, Ronald P. – Applied Language Learning, 1997

Investigated the effects of written input enhancement and text length on college students' second-language comprehension and intake. First-year Spanish students were exposed to one of four conditions with enhanced and non-enhanced short and long text. Exposing students to short authentic reading materials facilitated reading comprehension but not…

Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Linguistic Input

Hedging, Inflating, and Persuading in L2 Academic Writing

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Hinkel, Eli – Applied Language Learning, 2005

This study analyzes the types and frequencies of hedges and intensifiers employed in NS and NNS academic essays included in a corpus of L1 and L2 student academic texts (745 essays/220,747 words). The overarching goal of this investigation is to focus on these lexical and syntactic features of written discourse because they effectively lend…

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Usage, Syntax, Written Language