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Therova, Dana – TESL-EJ, 2023
Since written assignments often constitute the main form of assessment in tertiary education, academic writing skills are of paramount importance to university students. The role of academic writing in turn emphasises two aspects vital for successful written production at universities: genre awareness as students are assessed on the production of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods
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Rawdhan, Ahmed; Ebadi, Saman; Loan, Nguyen Thi Thuy – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
By employing Chen and Kuo's (2012) framework, this study comparatively investigated the rhetorical differences/similarities existing in the Literature Review chapters of Master of Arts (MA) theses authored by international and Iraqi MA students in the field of applied linguistics. The results showed that almost half of the international LR…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Masters Theses
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Liontas, John I.; Bangun, Imelda V.; Li, Siying – Teaching English with Technology, 2023
This study investigated the efficacy of explicit lexical collocation instruction via the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). To improve competence in lexical collocation and writing performance and to examine whether collocational competence and writing performance have a linear interrelation, 16 international English for Academic…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Martini, Juliane – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the appropriateness of open-access reading materials for an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, and to provide teachers with a set of criteria to select online texts systematically and efficiently. The Corpus for Veterinarians (VetCorpus) was compiled and analyzed using Lextutor corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Open Source Technology, Academic Language, Vocabulary Development