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Lam Ting Chun; Scott Aubrey – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
This article explores the potential for using a modified dictogloss task to improve ESL learners' use of genre-appropriate conventions and genre-appropriate style in the context of genre-based instruction for writing. Dictogloss has been traditionally used to enhance learners' focus on lexical and grammatical features through discussions during…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Styles, Task Analysis
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Grant Eckstein; Lisa Bell – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
First-year composition courses must balance a range of writing instruction priorities including genre and audience awareness with language instruction, particularly for second-language writers. Despite the attested efficacy of "dynamic" written corrective feedback for language gains in intensive English programs, little research has…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing Instruction, Intervention, Error Correction
Cullip, Peter F. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2009
This case study analyses two written texts produced by an ESL learner either side of a five-week genre-based teaching intervention. The second text was judged to be of a much higher quality by two independent markers in a previous study. The question arising is: what exactly has improved? The analytical tools of systemic functional linguistics are…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Case Studies, English (Second Language)