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Husam M. Alawadh; Talha Meraj; Lama Aldosari; Hafiz Tayyab Rauf – SAGE Open, 2024
E-learning systems are transforming the educational sector and making education more affordable and accessible. Recently, many e-learning systems have been equipped with advanced technologies that facilitate the roles of educators and increase the efficiency of teaching and learning. One such technology is Automatic Essay Grading (AEG) or…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education
Elena I. Shpit; Philip M. McCarthy – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Virtually all researchers understand the requirement of presenting their studies in peer-reviewed English-medium journals. Russian scientific writers understand this necessity too; however, evidence suggests that these particular researchers are under-performing relative to similar non-native English speakers. The considerable challenge Russians…
Descriptors: Russian, Engineering Education, Researchers, English (Second Language)
Affef Ghai; Sharif Alghazo – Open Education Studies, 2024
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Arabic, English
Fidelis Awoke Nwokwu – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
The study presents an exploration of how interpersonal relationships are created in a speech text. It investigated former President Muhammadu Buhari's Independence Day speech using mood structural analysis. The analysis aimed to explore the power of using mood structure in addressing Nigerians about the President's programs and policies during the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Speeches
Bisiada, Mario – Applied Linguistics, 2016
Sentence splitting is assumed to occur mainly in translations from languages that prefer a hierarchical discourse structure, such as German, to languages that prefer an incremental structure. This article challenges that assumption by presenting findings from a diachronic corpus study of English-German business article translations, which shows…
Descriptors: Editing, German, Guidelines, Diachronic Linguistics
Quelhas, Ana Cristina; Rasga, Célia; Johnson-Laird, P. N. – Cognitive Science, 2018
What is the relation between factual conditionals: "If A happened then B happened," and counterfactual conditionals: "If A had happened then B would have happened?" Some theorists propose quite different semantics for the two. In contrast, the theory of mental models and its computer implementation interrelates them. It…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Correlation
Wright, Heidi Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this dissertation is to offer a multifaceted overview of stand-alone literature reviews. These texts, literature reviews published unattached to research articles, have existed for centuries but remained largely unstudied by linguists. Thus, the goal of this project is to present these reviews' situational, grammatical, and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Computational Linguistics, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
Akmal, Hilmi; Syahriyani, Alfi; Handayani, Tuty – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aims to investigate the differences in the realization of request speech act between the IEL (Indonesian English Learners) and the AES (Australian English-Native Speakers), as well as explain the factors influencing these distinctions. The descriptive-qualitative method and discourse completion task (DCT) were used to obtain data in…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cross Cultural Studies, Semantics, Task Analysis
Iza Erviti, Aneider – International Journal of English Studies, 2015
This paper examines the essential features of a group of constructions that belong to the family of complementary alternation discourse constructions in English. In this group of constructions, X and Y are two situations such that Y is less likely (or more likely) to happen than X. Each member of this group (X Let Alone Y, X Much Less Y, X Never…
Descriptors: English, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure
Salam, Abdul; Mahfud, Mahmudah; Nurhusna, Nurhusna – International Journal of Language Education, 2018
Systemic Functional linguistics is related to a sign system that can be used to trace the scientific characteristic of academic texts. This study aimed at describing academic texts covering four technical terms: (1) simple, (2) dense, 3) objective, and (4) directness. Data analysis was done through three stages: (a) data reduction, (b) data…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure
Haladzhun, Zoriana – Advanced Education, 2019
The article outlines lingual features of the "evaluative judgement" construct, being new for the Ukrainian journalistic practices. By means of analysing the structural elements of this construct, the author defines its linguistic features as well as comes up with lexicogrammatical and stylistic means representing the "evaluative…
Descriptors: Journalism, Ukrainian, Language Usage, Language Styles
Emeksiz, Zeynep Erk – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This study aims at describing the functions of passive voice and how authors reflect their stance through those functions in Turkish academic discourse. Depending on the findings of a corpus based research, this study makes a counterpoint to functionalist views on the ground that passivization does not necessarily result in promoting agents in…
Descriptors: Turkish, Academic Discourse, Computational Linguistics, Language Usage
Mansouri, Aous – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation uses a corpus of tokens retrieved from broadcast news stories and print news articles to examine the array of constructions used to encode stative predications in Modern Standard Arabic. A state is defined as a situation that includes its reference time, whether that time is encoding time or another time of orientation. A range…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Computational Linguistics, News Reporting, Grammar
Kim, Dongmin – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The goal of this study is to characterize the temporal phenomena in the Korean conjunctive constructions. These constructions consist of three components: a verbal stem, a clause medial temporal suffix, and a clause terminal suffix. This study focuses on both the temporality of the terminal connective suffixes and the grammatical meanings of the…
Descriptors: Korean, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Phrase Structure
Essam, Bacem A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study investigates the use of anadiplosis in both English and Arabic. It focuses primarily on outlining and defining the so-called "reduced" anadiplosis in some Quranic verses. The study investigates, too, the most popular English translations of them, highlighting the mismatches between the original holy text and its translations.…
Descriptors: Translation, Islam, Discourse Analysis, English