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Uccelli, Paola; Phillips Galloway, Emily – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
Educators are aware of the need to promote students' academic language to support text comprehension. Yet, besides teaching academic vocabulary, many educators continue to ask, What would this instruction entail? Guided by a new framework known as core academic language skills (CALS), the authors' research focuses on delineating core language…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
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Crossley, Scott; Kyle, Kristopher; Salsbury, Thomas – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study investigates relations between second language (L2) lexical input and output in terms of word information properties (i.e., lexical salience; Ellis, 2006a). The data for this study come from a longitudinal corpus of naturalistic spoken data between L2 learners and first language (L1) interlocutors collected over a year's time. The…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics
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Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia; Cuevas, Isabel; Torres-Guzmán, María – Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This study draws upon a survey of writing conceptions and cultural dispositions data, as well as multimodal compositions allowing bilingual teacher candidates to recursively explore and deepen the relationships between language, identity, and culture in learning. We found that teacher candidates did rethink the relationships through the multimodal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Correlation, Self Concept
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Li, Zhi; Hegelheimer, Volker – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
In this paper, we report on the development and implementation of a web-based mobile application, "Grammar Clinic," for an ESL writing class. Drawing on insights from the interactionist approach to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), the Noticing Hypothesis, and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL), "Grammar Clinic" was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Editing, English (Second Language)
Gomez, Cynthia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Adult students are now enrolling into colleges and universities in large numbers. Their life responsibilities and time away from school create challenges for academic success. A portion of these learners are also non-native English speakers who face compounded difficulties. One of the skill areas that these students need to cultivate is academic…
Descriptors: College Students, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Writing Skills
Thomas, Sonya C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Writing is seldom explicitly taught, most specifically, in academic and scholarly writing. Therefore, this mixed methods correlational phenomenology research study explored the correlation between self-efficacy perception and course room preparation for the comprehensive examination, APA standards in the course room, APA standards evaluation for…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Scholarship, Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse
Hess, Steven Timothy Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Writing for scientific publication represents an opportunity to interact with colleagues and make a positive contribution to the academic community. However, there is a growing concern regarding the ability of graduate students' to transfer writing skill sets learned at the graduate and undergraduate levels into professional settings. The main…
Descriptors: Physics, Writing Skills, Statistical Analysis, Graduate Students
Zhao, Qing – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mix-methods study examined the language anxiety levels that the Chinese international students perceived in second language (L2) academic context at four universities in the northeastern region of the United States of America; it explored the impact of language anxiety that these students perceived on their academic learning; it also…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer)