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Xiaopeng Zhang; Wenwen Li – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study modeled the effects of essay length and language features on the rated quality of second language (L2) expository and argumentative essays composed by Chinese university students. Latent variables were writing quality captured by essay scores, and lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity and cohesion, each of which was measured by…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Essays, Language Usage, College Students
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Catie Nielson; Emma Pitt; Michal Fux; Kristin de Nesnera; Nicole Betz; Jessica S. Leffers; Kimberly D. Tanner; John D. Coley – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Previous research has shown that students employ intuitive thinking when understanding scientific concepts. Three types of intuitive thinking--essentialist, teleological, and anthropic thinking--are used in biology learning and can lead to misconceptions. However, it is unknown how commonly these types of intuitive thinking, or cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Usage, College Students, Biology, Scientific Concepts
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
Language is not static. It flows like a river in response to the riverbank and the rocks that border and run beneath it. In the same way, glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Developmental education and learning assistance have changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define…
Descriptors: College Students, Success, Language Usage, Definitions
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Adrienne Jankens; Nicole Guinot Varty; Anna Lindner; Linda Jimenez; Anita Mixon; Carly Braxton; K. M. Begian-Lewis – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Through surveys and focus group conversations, we studied students' experiences with instruction in writing-intensive (WI) courses at our urban R1 university and their awareness of and attitudes about linguistic diversity. Specifically, we have explored discrepancies between students' experiences with languaging, language judgment, and our…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Student Diversity, Language Usage
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Marcus C. G. Friedrich; Selina Gajewski; Katja Hagenberg; Christine Wenz; Elke Heise – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Gender-fair language makes women and people of other genders, their interests, and achievements more visible. However, critics argue that gender-fair language impairs the comprehensibility and aesthetic appeal of texts. This study tests these assumptions specifically concerning the gender asterisk, a form of gender-fair language that makes people…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sex Fairness, Comprehension, Aesthetics
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Ellen B. Rubinstein; Hannah Rayel; Elizabeth C. Crawford; Mary Larson – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This exploratory study examined campus attitudes toward vaccines to guide subsequent development of context-relevant interventions for increasing vaccine acceptance and uptake. Participants: We gathered ethnographic data on a convenience sample of campus community members (students, faculty, staff) at a public university over six weeks…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, College Students, College Faculty, School Personnel
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Ying Wu; Rita Elaine Silver – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study investigates the subjectivities of tertiary students in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) of the People's Republic of China. Specifically, we investigate self-reported language practices and attitudes in relation to identities in a language ecology with three prominent languages (Zhuang, Standard Chinese [Putonghua], and…
Descriptors: College Students, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Montes, Kevin S.; Dela Cruz, Margott; Vink, Limor H.; Jaime, Saray V.; Almeida, Bryan J.; Aguiluz, Denise Y.; Arca, Diorlene; Smith, Alicia M.; Kapila-Ramirez, Anita; Figueroa-Sierra, Nicole C.; Infante, Gabriel – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Given that approximately 5% of the U.S. population is currently attending college, research is needed to better understand the language that college students use to describe alcohol recovery regardless of their current drinking behavior. College student perceptions of alcohol recovery are important, given that students may experience an alcohol…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Usage, Alcohol Abuse, Rehabilitation
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Chan, Joy Wai Yan; Chan, Winnie Wai Lan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: The debate on using concrete versus abstract materials in learning mathematics has been longstanding. For decades, research has focused on the physical characteristics of materials when defining them as concrete or abstract. Aims: This study extends the field by proposing a two-dimensional classification, which defines materials as…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Mathematics Instruction, Classification, College Students
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Michael D'Addario – Discover Education, 2025
With the proliferation of easy-to-use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, students in college composition courses can and do take advantage of such technology to assist with essay writing. While a growing body of research does not see using these tools as a problem in itself, institutional, departmental, and instructor policies about generative…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Language Usage, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
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Henri Olkoniemi; Diane Mézière; Johanna K. Kaakinen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Eyetracking studies have shown that readers reread ironic phrases when resolving their meaning. Moreover, it has been shown that the timecourse of processing ironic meaning is affected by reader's working memory capacity (WMC). Irony is a context-dependent phenomenon but using traditional eye-movement measures it is difficult to analyze processing…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Individual Differences, Short Term Memory
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Joseph B. Quinto – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
Pinoylish (Philippine English) has made a mark in the literature, although research on the perspectives of university students on Pinoylish is still scarce. As a result, a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was undertaken to investigate the awareness and notions of 761 university students in Northern Luzon, Philippines. The results…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Hongyan Wang – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Asian international students have long constituted the largest portion of the international student body in the United States (U.S.), a trend that persists despite the hurdles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. These students play an essential role in stimulating the U.S. economy, facilitating cross-cultural exchange, and nurturing international…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, College Students, Student Experience
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Emanuel Bylund; Steven Samuel; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense-taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Classification, Language Processing
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Xi Yan – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This study employs an open-ended questionnaire survey and online semi-structured interviews to explore English name adoption, use, and attitudes of tertiary students in China. The findings show that more than half of the students report having an English name and nearly half of the students choose their own English names. Students mainly use their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
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