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Arsyad, Safnil; Hakim, Husnul; Astria, Hellen – Online Submission, 2021
The abstract is an important part of a research article; it is a research summary that must be attached, presented together with the research article. Therefore, the quality of an abstract is explicitly significant. This article aims to determine the similarities and differences of the rhetorical moves and linguistic features of abstracts of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Authors, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nurhayati, Dwi Astuti; Djatmika – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
The article discusses the quality of language exploitation performed by the students of the English Language Study Program in the City of Tulungagung in writing English text stories. The data was collected for 4 months, starting May up to August 2020 in IAIN Tulungagung campus in the sense of data collection, through the observation. This study…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
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Yang, Wei-dong; Dai, Wei-ping – Higher Education Studies, 2011
This paper attempts to expound that China English boasting its own distinctive features on the levels of phonology, words, sentences and discourse has been playing an irreplaceable role in intercultural activities, though still in its infancy and in the process of developing and perfecting itself, and it now makes every effort to move towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Language Variation
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Allen, David – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
The aim of the current research is to investigate the effects of textual modification upon the distribution of specific linguistic features of news texts when authors adopt an intuitive approach to simplification. The research focuses on the distribution and use of relative clauses (RCs) across three levels of simplification. The analysis of news…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Research, Sentence Structure
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de Oliveira, Luciana C. – History Teacher, 2010
The ability to read is well-recognized as essential to being successful in school history. To be able to read history textbooks effectively, students can be made aware of some features typical of history discourse. Knowledge of how nominal groups are functional in history discourse can help students and teachers engage with the meanings presented…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Textbooks