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Tisapramotkul, Ornuma – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
With borders reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, the travel industry has employed different methods to attract potential customers. One of the popular promotional strategies is advertorials. This study examines 75 travel advertorials from "the Telegraph," a national daily newspaper in the UK, to address two objectives -- 1) to…
Descriptors: Newspapers, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Haiying; Graesser, Arthur C. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
This study investigated how computer agents' language style affects summary writing in an Intelligent Tutoring System, called CSAL AutoTutor. Participants interacted with two computer agents in one of three language styles: (1) a "formal" language style, (2) an "informal" language style, and (3) a "mixed" language…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Language Styles, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement
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Nujood Al-Reshaid; Ahmad I. Alhojailan – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Academic writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) poses challenges for graduate students, particularly in achieving coherence and organization. Thematic choices play a crucial role in guiding readers and ensuring textual cohesion. While Theme selection has been explored in various contexts, little research has examined…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Literary Genres, Writing Strategies, Semantics
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Nur Afifi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article reports initial parts of a classroom-based action research aimed to teach students to write a literature review (LR), which is considered as a critical, yet often overlooked genre, thus posing difficulties to the students. The existing works on LRs appear to treat the ability to write overviews of individual studies, and to combine…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pong-ampai Kongcharoen; Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Intira Bumrungsalee – rEFLections, 2025
In recent years, there has been a growing trend of using informal styles in academic writing, including research articles. To examine the degree of formality in students' writing, this corpus-based study aimed to analyze the formal linguistic features in the academic writing assignments of English-major students at a Thai university. The learner…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Essays, Majors (Students), English (Second Language)
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Herman; Purba, Ridwin; Thao, Nguyen Van; Purba, Anita – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
Because of the importance of the English language, the government of Indonesia always aims to apply approaches that are anticipated to be appropriate for education levels and students' ability, not only in attaining knowledge but also in relation to their personality and integrity in regard to using the knowledge gained in their future day-to-day…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Difficulties
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Xueping Li; Yiru Wang – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
This study examines how the genre of input text influences Chinese young EFL learners' performance on continuation tasks. Participants were 30 students in Grade 9 and repeated-measures design was adopted to compare their performance on narrative and argumentative continuation tasks, in terms of writing quality, CAF indicators as well as alignment.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Li, Haiying; Graesser, Art C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study investigated how computer agents' language style affects summary writing in an Intelligent Tutoring System, called CSAL AutoTutor. Participants interacted with two computer agents in one of three language styles: (1) a "formal" language style; (2) an "informal" language style; and (3) a "mixed" language…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Language Styles, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement
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Kuzmenkova, Julia; Erykina, Maria – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2022
Contemporary EAP research and teaching academics constantly elaborate new and better methods and re-evaluate those in use to facilitate students' academic growth. The article considers some options for teaching EAP to undergraduates highlighting the results of the experimental study conducted in the context of higher education in Russia and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Undergraduate Students
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Piriya Thaksanan – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Anxiety can affect learners' performance in several ways. It can be a helpful motivational tool to assist students in learning a language. At the same time, anxiety can become a serious factor in hindering language acquisition. This study examines the relationship between students' writing performance and anxiety levels across three different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Business English
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Affef 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
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Negretti, Raffaella – Written Communication, 2021
What aspects of writing are doctoral students metacognitive about when they write research articles for publication? Contributing to the recent conversation about metacognition in genre pedagogy, this study adopts a qualitative approach to illustrate what students have in common, across disciplines and levels of expertise, and the dynamic…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing for Publication, Doctoral Students, Writing Instruction
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Nazari, Mostafa; Alizadeh Oghyanous, Parastoo – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: While research on language teacher cognition is increasingly developing, the scope of research on writing teachers' cognition is still limited, particularly on how teacher education influences their cognitions. The present study moves along this line of inquiry and investigates the impact of a teacher education course on second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Janice Bland – Online Submission, 2023
Student language teachers exploring literary texts for language education mostly focus on "what" is written, and the opportunities that could arise for stimulating classroom discussions. In teacher education, helping student teachers discover "how" a powerfully persuasive text is created is frequently overlooked. With this…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning
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Birhan, Amare Tesfie – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
Lexical bundles are two or more string of words that co-occur frequently in a corpus. Hence, this corpus-based research design study examines the effects of lexical bundles on English as a foreign language learner's abstract genre academic writing skills, and it also investigates students' perception towards lexical bundles instruction to enhance…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning
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