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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 reviewedKing, Philip – System, 1989
Analysis of how students of English for Science and Engineering use certain categories of nouns in their technical writing projects revealed a significant use of "sub-technical" and "text-structuring" words serving both referential and discourse-oriented functions. The use of matching or cloze-type and open-ended writing exercises to improve…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Science and Technology, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedGunawardena, C. N. – English for Specific Purposes, 1989
Analysis of five biology and five biochemistry professional journal articles' use of the English present perfect tense revealed that both disciplines used the tense most frequently in the introduction and discussion sections, typically conveying the meaning of a past experience with current relevance. (CB)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Biology, English for Science and Technology, Language Patterns
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
Peer reviewedSalager-Meyer, Francoise; And Others – System, 1989
Examines the variations of 17 grammatical variables (verb tenses, voice, and form) within the communicative function of 51 medical English scholarly papers. Three axes of variable distribution are revealed that help categorize the papers as case reports, editorials, or research papers. Pedagogical guidelines for preparation and use of reading…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, English for Science and Technology, Grammar
Peer reviewedGosden, Hugh – English for Specific Purposes, 1995
Focuses on the textual revisions involved in the creation of "successful" scientific research articles by nonnative novice researchers. A linguistic framework of text analysis and interpretive commentary show how the hard, norm-developing processes of interaction between inexperienced novice and expert writers in the scientific discourse…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Literary Criticism
Direct linkRoberts, Tim S. – Information Science Publishing, 2006
Contributions from researchers and practitioners involved in self, peer and group assessment in an online or e-learning environment investigate how assessment practices can be used to assist and improve the learning process. The book describes the principal characteristics of self, peer and group assessment; presents guidelines for effective…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Internet, Peer Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Culhane, Terry, Ed.; And Others – 1984
Papers include: "ESP Tests: The Problem of Student Background Discipline (J. C. Alderson, A. H. Urquhart); "The Lexical Richness of L2 Written Productions and the Validity of Vocabulary Tests" (P. J. L. Arnaud); "The Construction of a Modular Thematic Task Bound English Language Achievement Test Battery for Kuwait" (M. I. Baghdady); "The Fill-In…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Communication, Cloze Procedure, Communicative Competence (Languages)
