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Download full textLee, Joyce; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Eric Ping Chung – THAITESOL Journal, 2022
Syntactic complexity is a crucial aspect of linguistic proficiency and thus understanding and supporting such development in learners is a keen concern for language teachers. Research conducted has shown growing sophistication of noun phrase structures by writers of different abilities in academic writing (Biber & Gray, 2010; Liu & Li,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing Skills, Language Proficiency, Technical Writing
Peer reviewedSpretnak, Charlene M. – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1983
Presents reasons and methods for including numerous reading assignments when teaching technical writing to engineering students. (RAE)
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English for Science and Technology, Higher Education, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedHall, David; And Others – English for Specific Purposes, 1986
Information-structuring courses offered at the Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand) present concepts, patterns, hypotheses, and procedures for discussion on the basis that their consideration can contribute to better idea organization, text production, and text interpretation for engineering and other technology students learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Second Language Programs, College Students, Engineering Education
Krishnan, Lakshmy; Murphy, Noela – Guidelines, 1993
In a Singapore study of the evaluation of engineering students' writing, engineering lecturers and language lecturers marked scripts differently. Analysis showed that engineering lecturers placed more emphasis on students' understanding of a process rather than their expression of that understanding. (Contains 13 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability
Braine, George – 1989
A study investigated the types of writing assignments commonly found in undergraduate natural sciences and engineering courses. The study was used as a basis for the development of composition courses for limited-English-speaking students in these fields, the most popular fields of study among foreign students. Eighty take-home assignments given…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Science, Course Content, Educational Needs
