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Erturk, Gulsah Tikiz; Ozturk, Kadim – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study aims to identify (1) how EFL graduate-level students at various Turkish universities regard the level of difficulty in terms of the different sections of a scholarly work in their academic writing practices, (2) whether their perceptions concerning the difficulty of the various sections show a significant difference depending on their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Korau, Shehu Muhammad; Aliyu, Muhammad Mukhtar – English Language Teaching, 2020
Persuasive writing is a very important prerequisite for undergraduates in their academic life endeavour. For the students to effectively compose good persuasive writing, they need to understand and employ metadiscourse appropriately in their writing. However, a large number of Nigerian undergraduates face lots of challenges in using metadiscourse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
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Hersi, Mustafa A. – English Language Teaching, 2021
Writing in a second language is considered extremely challenging for several reasons. Concerns that perplex second-language learners include cognitive complications, the composing process, building arguments, and constructing an identity as a writer. Cultural issues related to writing also pose problems for second-language writers This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Females
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Ankawi, Ayman – English Language Teaching, 2022
Education outcomes for L2 students in academic preparation programs, undergraduate studies, and graduate work are directly influenced by the learning and use of academic vocabulary. Among 15 Saudi graduate students studying in New Zealand, this study investigated at their perspectives with academic vocabulary learning. Students in Saudi Arabia who…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Peng, Yao; Azmi, Nur Amalia Athifah Binti – English Language Teaching, 2022
An increasing body of scholars have investigated noun phrase complexity in L2 English writing from varied perspectives, but few of them focus on the differences of the English writing produced by EFLs and ESLs. Thus, the study explored how three international postgraduates from China and three local Malaysian postgraduates in a top university of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Native Language
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de Brusa, Maria Fernanda Poveda; Harutyunyan, Liliya – English Language Teaching, 2019
Higher education focuses on promoting the training of autonomous, critical professionals who adapt to the ever-more demanding labor market. To achieve these objectives, it is necessary to rethink teaching practices in order to allow the student to be the main actor and modeler for their learning process. Previous studies based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Academic Language
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Yao, Don – English Language Teaching, 2020
Computer-based test (CBT) and paper-based test (PBT) are two test modes to the test takers that have been widely adopted in the field of language testing or assessment over the last few decades. Due to the rapid development of science and technology, it is a trend for universities and educational institutions striving rather hard to deliver the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Format, Comparative Analysis
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Cheung, Lok Ming Eric – English Language Teaching, 2022
The rhetorically complex concluding components of academic written texts often challenge novice writers, having to summarise their arguments and stance, and offer prospective comments on future developments concerning the subject matter. With an aim to elucidate the lexicogrammatical expressions of such prospective comments in essay conclusions,…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Business Administration Education, Linguistics, Academic Language
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Chaudhry. Abdus Sattar; Al-Adwani, Amel – English Language Teaching, 2019
Reading is important for students by contributing significantly to success in their studies and their career development. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted in the English Department of the College of Basic Education, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), in Kuwait. Based on 410 responses of EFL college students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lyu, Meng; Gee, Roger W. – English Language Teaching, 2020
The general question this research investigates concerns the difference between the use of lexical bundles in a corpus of abstracts for theses in the liberal arts written by Chinese undergraduate students and a corpus of abstracts written by American master's degree students. The undergraduate abstracts were first written in Chinese and then…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Masters Theses, Liberal Arts
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Alhojailan, Ahmad I. – English Language Teaching, 2019
Since students are increasingly expected to use academic vocabulary while at university, this study was conducted to determine whether a statistical correlation existed between the use of academic vocabulary in assignments and the marks obtained by graduate students, using a purposive sample of graduate students (n = 11). The students were asked…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, Language Usage, Vocabulary Development
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Chaleila, Wisam; Khalaila, Basem – English Language Teaching, 2020
While recent literature has focused extensively on the widely embraced approach of explicit instruction, there is a considerable paucity of research concerning plausible practical frameworks that can demonstrate how such particular approach is implementable in EFL classes. To address the specific writing deficiencies of EFL students, the current…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
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Mahalli; Nurkamto, Joko; Mujiyanto, Januarius; Yuliasri, Issy – English Language Teaching, 2019
This research was conducted to analyze the implementation of blended learning. This study focused on the implementation "Station Rotation" and "Flipped Classroom" models of blended learning in academic writing course in English Education Study Program of UNISNU Jepara. Observation and interview were done to collect the data of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Blended Learning
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Aktar, Tasnima; Strong, Dina – English Language Teaching, 2019
A considerable amount of studies has been done on the relationship of L2 vocabulary and reading/listening, strategy use and reading/listening, and vocabulary and strategy use in different contexts among different levels of learners; however, little has been known about the relationships among all these variables with the same cohort of learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Hussain, Syed Sarwar – English Language Teaching, 2019
Of all English Language skills, writing poses the greatest challenge for students due to the demands of style, structure and vocabulary. Even if second language learners (L2 learners) can speak the language well enough for everyday activities--shopping, traveling, and so on, producing an academic write-up that is precise, accurate, objective and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes