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Wang, Huan – SAGE Open, 2022
Multimodal composing is the construction of meanings through a combination of semiotic modes such as visual, audio, and textual to create multimodal texts. Studies have investigated the application of multimodal composing in the English language, in content area classrooms, and within various educational ESL and EFL contexts. However, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intensive Language Courses
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LaScotte, Darren K. – Language Awareness, 2021
With universities and other academic institutions now creating policies regarding the use of pronouns and the rights of individuals to use the pronouns they prefer, use of the singular they pronoun in academic discourse is a relatively new phenomenon and not one that is typically studied by English as a second language (ESL) students before their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
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Benson, Phil; Chappell, Philip; Yates, Lynda – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
The challenges of gaining access to opportunities to use the target language in contexts of study abroad, international education, and migration are well documented. In this Sydney-based study, these are reconceptualized as challenges of access to English in an English-speaking but increasingly multilingual, city. The notion of "context"…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, International Education
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Crossley, Scott A.; Kim, YouJin – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
The current study examined the effects of text-based relational (i.e., cohesion), propositional-specific (i.e., lexical), and syntactic features in a source text on subsequent integration of the source text in spoken responses. It further investigated the effects of word integration on human ratings of speaking performance while taking into…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Syntax, Oral Language, Speech Communication
Loheyde, Kristin; Kunz, Nancy – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This paper reports on a study of the oral communication between international university students in an intensive English program (IEP) and office support staff at the IEP office. The study was based on audiotaped observations and interviews of students and office staff, along with questionnaires distributed to all 150 students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Problems, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Ellis, James – Thought Currents in English Literature, 1993
A study investigated the relationship between language contacts made outside of the classroom by Japanese foreign students and how those contacts affect their participation within the classroom and their overall academic performance. Subjects were 32 university students from Japan enrolled in an intensive language program. All of the students had…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Traits