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Li, Dongying – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Academic literacy as an embodiment of higher-order language and thinking skills within the academic community bears huge significance for language socialization, resource distribution and even power disposition within the larger sociocultural context. However, although the notion of academic literacy has been initiated for more than twenty years,…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Literacy, Language Skills, Thinking Skills
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Mirzaei, Azizullah; Eslami, Zohreh R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
Recent second/foreign language (L2) research has witnessed the application of sociocultural tenets to L2 classrooms. This study aimed to probe whether Iranian L2 learners' engagement in ZPD-activated collaborative dialogue, or "languaging", mediates their learning process and, specifically, their appropriate use of metadiscourse to…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns, Collaborative Writing
Mak, Jenny Shuk Ching – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed-methods study explored the influence and applicability of the Perry Scheme to students from mainland China studying in the U.S. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the intellectual and ethical development of students from mainland China enrolled in a U.S graduate engineering program using the Perry Scheme of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Engineering Education, Ethics