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Direct linkAffef 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
Download full textUba, Sani Yantandu Uba – English Language Teaching, 2020
The aim of conducting this study came from a need to explore contrastive study in using metadiscourse features between English and Hausa in research article genre. This study investigated what metadiscourse features are frequently used across two languages in research article genre. A sub-corpus of ten research articles was compiled from each…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, African Languages, Discourse Analysis
Rochanavibhata, Sirada; Marian, Viorica – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Maternal scaffolding and four-year-old children's linguistic skills were examined during toy play. Participants were 21 American-English monolingual and 21 Thai monolingual mother-child dyads. Results revealed cross-cultural differences in conversation styles between the two groups. American dyads adopted a high-elaborative style relative to Thai…
Descriptors: Play, Cross Cultural Studies, Asians, North Americans
Troyan, Francis John; King, Nicole; Bramli, Ahmed – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Framed within the discussions of the knowledge base for language immersion teachers, this article presents a qualitative case study of a first-year Grade 2 French immersion teacher's enactment of his systemic functional linguistic (SFL) knowledge to position his students in a culturally sustaining genre pedagogy. We examined interactive events and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Gardner, Sheena; Han, Chao – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
One of the fundamental ways in which knowledge develops is through contrast. This applies not only to the development of ideas and theories in argumentative texts, but also to the contrasting of new findings with old in experimental reports. Contrast, then, is central to the development of academic knowledge. A common finding in contrastive…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Contrastive Linguistics, Chinese, English
Sommers, Mitchell S.; Barcroft, Joe – Language Learning, 2013
Previous research has demonstrated substantially improved second language (L2) vocabulary learning when spoken word forms are varied using multiple talkers, speaking styles, or speaking rates. In contrast, the present study varied visual representations of referents for target vocabulary. English speakers learned Spanish words in formats of no…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Grammar, Language Styles
Ye, Lijuan – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
Previous research within the field of argumentation has established that argumentation plays an important role in a variety of professions. Written argumentation has been extensively explored and investigated to examine its various aspects, including argument structures and schemes, argumentative strength, the role of audience, the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Styles, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Akbas, Erdem, Ed.; Hatipoglu, Ciler, Ed.; Bayyurt, Yasemin, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This is the book of abstracts for the conference held in 2017 entitled: ''METADISCOURSE ACROSS GENRES: MAPPING INTERACTION IN SPOKEN & WRITTEN DISCOURSES'', also known as MAG2017. The 1st International Conference on Metadiscourse Across Genres took place in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus between 30 March-1 April 2017 with the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Loi, Chek Kim – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
This study investigates the rhetorical organisation of English and Chinese research article introductions in the field of educational psychology using (Swales, 1990) and (Swales, 2004) framework of move analysis. A corpus of 40 research articles (20 Chinese and 20 English) was selected. The English research articles, written by first-language…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Educational Psychology, English, Native Speakers
Ure, Jean N. – Engl Lang Teaching, 1969
Second part of article begun in Engl Lang Teaching, v23 n2, Jan 1969.
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Styles
Dupuis, Mary Miles – 1971
This study assesses an analytical process which seeks to describe the writing style of a student in terms of the four basic transformational operations: addition, deletion, combining, and reordering. Application of the process to writing skills of low achievers in English is evaluated. All ninth and eleventh grade students in the Falls Church,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, English, Grade 11, Grade 9
Taggart, Gilbert, Ed. – 1977
These 16 papers in French and English deal with questions related to the purpose of learning a language, one's native language as well as a second one. Specifically, the presentations deal with the following topics: (1) consideration of learners' needs; (2) the usefulness of learning English in Quebec; (3) the tension between knowledge and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), English, English Instruction
