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Hu, Zhenming; Zheng, Binghan; Wang, Xiangling – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of repeated use of a metacognitive self-regulation inventory (MSRI) in translator self-training. Designed by the researchers, the MSRI includes the cognitive management strategies of planning, monitoring and evaluation. A pre-post comparison study was conducted with two groups of students. The…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sasaki, Miyuki; Baba, Kyoka; Nitta, Ryo; Matsuda, Paul Kei – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This article reports on two quasi-experimental studies that investigated the possible development and transfer of audience awareness in novice EFL writers as they engaged in online writing tasks through a Social Networking Service (SNS). Japanese students from two universities were asked to write, read, and comment on other students' writing once…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Feng – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Previous studies in genre-based pedagogy mainly concerned with its teaching effects, few studies involved with students' perceptions and attitudes which is actually playing a role in teaching and learning activities. The present study intends to make some explorations in this aspect. A quasi-experimental study to designed to answer the research…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
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Fatima Abdulrahman Alsalloom – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
The present study investigates the effectiveness of consciousness-raising approach in interpreting conversational implicature using audiovisual input. The study was conducted on 126 Saudi female students at the Department of English Language and Literature at AlImam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. The experimental group was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ackerley, Katherine – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This study analyses the effects of data-driven learning (DDL) on the phraseology used by 223 English students at an Italian university. The students studied the genre of opinion survey reports through paper-based and hands-on exploration of a reference corpus. They then wrote their own report and a learner corpus of these texts was compiled. A…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Ulmer, Jasmine B. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The ways in which the language of reformers intersects with and informs reform implementation is important to our understanding of how education policy impacts practice. To explore this issue, we employed critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze the language used by a 21st century skills-focused reform organization to promote its program…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Policy Formation
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Plester, B.; Lerkkanen, M.-K.; Linjama, L. J.; Rasku-Puttonen, H.; Littleton, K. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
The aim of the study was to demonstrate the style of text language used by Finnish pre-teen texters (n = 65) and determine how their text language related to their traditional literacy skills, and compare descriptively these results with earlier results from work with young English texters. Three kinds of text messages (natural texts, elicited…
Descriptors: Literacy, Preadolescents, Language Styles, Language Usage