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Hamzah Ahmad A. Kuriri – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language is a tool for communication. People use it when they converse with each other. One way to comprehend what is being said is based on understating the intended meanings of the conversation, or what is called the underlined meanings (pragmatics). Pragmatic studies how different meanings are conveyed, depending on the utterances provided. A…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, English Language Learners, Language Teachers
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Cunningham, Samuel; Laundon, Melinda; Cathcart, Abby; Bashar, Md Abul; Nayak, Richi – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Student evaluation of teaching (SET) surveys are the most widely used tool for collecting higher education student feedback to inform academic quality improvement, promotion and recruitment processes. Malicious and abusive student comments in SET surveys have the potential to harm the wellbeing and career prospects of academics. Despite much…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Written Language, Antisocial Behavior, Language Usage
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de Simone, Julieta; Cevasco, Jazmín – Reading Psychology, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of the causal connectivity of the statements ("their total number of causal connections") and the modality of presentation of discourse ("oral-written") in the generation of emotion inferences by Spanish-speaking students. With this aim, we asked a group of Argentine college…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response, Inferences
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Shakarami, Alireza; Hajhashemi, Karim; Caltabiano, Nerina – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
Analysis of the linguistic discourse plays an important role in the social, cultural, ethnographic, and comparative studies of languages. Discourse markers as indispensable parts of this analysis are reportedly more common in informal speech than in written language. They could be used at different levels, i.e. as "linking words,"…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
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Cutillas, Laia; Tolchinsky, Liliana – First Language, 2017
Adjectives, like nouns and verbs, are one of the three major classes of lexical words. But, unlike nouns and verbs, they emerge late in acquisition. In Catalan, as in many other languages, their use is closely linked to the literate lexicon learned at school-age. Thus, the use of adjectives can be a good indicator of later language development.…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Romance Languages, Language Acquisition, Spanish
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Nurmi, Arja – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
Translating multilingual texts is still a new field of inquiry. Transplanting a text where the function of embraced multilingual practices is strongly related to local ethnic identities can provide challenges for translators and readers alike. This study discusses the translation strategies adopted by second-year translation students on an…
Descriptors: Translation, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Multilingualism, Case Studies
Akbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Zubair, Cala A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This linguistic and ethnographic project examines register formation among a community of Sri Lankan university youth. The Raggers group at the University of Peradeniya (Kandy, Sri Lanka) has strict rules forbidding the use of English and supporting a register of Sinhala made up of linguistic features from different Sinhala varieties. Detailing…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Linguistics, Ideology, Foreign Countries
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Suzuki, Shinobu – Written Communication, 2011
This study examines how Japanese students perceive the qualities of written arguments that were constructed to have different forms. Based on the theoretical dimensions of verbal communication styles that Gudykunst and Ting-Toomey (1988) proposed, the research questions asked whether the respondents would perceive direct arguments to be of higher…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Student Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Japanese
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Sauro, Shannon; Smith, Bryan – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This study examines the linguistic complexity and lexical diversity of both overt and covert L2 output produced during synchronous written computer-mediated communication, also referred to as chat. Video enhanced chatscripts produced by university learners of German (N = 23) engaged in dyadic task-based chat interaction were coded and analyzed for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Written Language
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Demont-Heinrich, Christof – World Englishes, 2010
This paper analyzes written discourse generated in response to an open-ended questionnaire administered to 136 students at two different universities in the southwestern United States and to 15 non-American students at a large Danish university. The questionnaire aimed to inspire reflection about the impact of the global rise of English on…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), English (Second Language), Written Language, Discourse Analysis
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Vinther, Jane – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
The framework of this study is cooperation between students of English at a Chinese university and their counterparts at a Danish university, i.e. neither group of students are native speakers of English. The theoretical framework for the study is Vygotsky's sociocultural approach combined with the work by a number of researchers on the link…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Constructivism (Learning), Interpersonal Relationship
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Yanguas, Inigo – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
This study explores task-based, synchronous oral computer-mediated communication (CMC) among intermediate-level learners of Spanish. In particular, this paper examines (a) how learners in video and audio CMC groups negotiate for meaning during task-based interaction, (b) possible differences between both oral CMC modes and traditional face-to-face…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software
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Losey, Kay M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
Some US researchers and practitioners are calling for the use of written codeswitching in mainstream college courses, despite a strong English-only sentiment among many teachers and the public. This paper describes the existing positions in this debate and presents findings from the author's research to shed light on the debate and make…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Awareness, College Students, Code Switching (Language)
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Kang, Jennifer Yusun – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined Korean English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' ability to establish textual cohesion in English through appropriate selection of reference forms and reference management strategies in their written narrative discourse. It employed both quantitative and qualitative analysis to explore how the language-specific reference…
Descriptors: Korean, Native Speakers, Language Acquisition, Nouns
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