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Rodrigo A. Rodríguez-Fuentes; Valentina Concu – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This study examines the application of corpus linguistics in English language teaching (ELT) in Colombia, where its practical adoption remains limited compared to many developed countries. Data were gathered through a survey of English instructors at Colombian universities to assess their familiarity with corpus linguistics. Findings indicate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Ons Abdi – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The current study aims to verify the claims, in the literature, about the repetitive nature of the Arabic language, its oral origin, as well as its potential transfer into Arabs' EFL discourse. To this end, using a mixed-methods research design, the study investigated the use of lexical repetition (LR) in 40 EFL essays, 40 EFL speeches, 30 Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Arabic, English (Second Language)
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Sword, Helen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
In this playful meditation on academic pronouns, I report on my research findings from three separate studies: a 2007 analysis of pronoun usage patterns in 50 higher education articles published 2006-2007; a 2017 analysis of the 70 articles published in "Teaching & Learning Inquiry" since the journal was founded in 2013; and an…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage, Higher Education, Periodicals
Joyce Annette Maxwell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As a historically racialized utterance, "nigger" has been a contested and despised word since the late 17th Century. Now, in the 21st Century, "nigga" is still considered one of the most impactful words in the English lexicon. This dissertation provides one situated and contingent analysis of nigga as a moment of excess in the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Higher Education, Speech Acts, Language Patterns
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Alrabah, Sulaiman; Wu, Shu-hua; Alotaibi, Abdullah M.; Aldaihani, Hussein A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated English teachers' use of learners' L1 (Arabic) in college classrooms in Kuwait. The purpose of the study was three-fold: (1) to describe the functions for which L1 was employed by the teachers, (2) to explore the affective, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic factors that may have led teachers to use L1 in L2 teaching,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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M. O'Connor, Candy – Christian Higher Education, 2018
In the midst of numerous global uncertainties, leaders are expected to have the ability to articulate a compelling vision of a preferred future that energizes and engages followers. In fact, Kouzes and Posner (2009) have argued that "Being forward-looking--envisioning exciting possibilities and enlisting others in a shared view of the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Leadership, Leadership Styles, Christianity
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Behrens, Susan J.; Chirinos, Yoshivel; Spencer, Marisa; Spradley, Sonya – NADE Digest, 2016
Utilizing the framework of educational linguistics, we investigate ways to foster greater awareness of, and facility with, academic English for educators and students across disciplines by maximizing the popularity of language-related software packages, applications and websites, those already commonly found in and out of the classroom. Our work…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computer Software, Metalinguistics, Web Sites
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Hilmarsson-Dunn, Amanda; Kristinsson, Ari Pall – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2010
Purist language policies in Iceland have preserved and modernized Icelandic up until the present time. However, the impact of globalization and global English has led to the perception that the language is less secure than in the past and has prompted efforts by policy makers towards greater protection of Icelandic. This monograph presents the…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Context Effect, Global Approach, Official Languages
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Hincks, Rebecca – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
This paper quantifies differences in speaking rates in a first and second language, and examines the effects of slower rates on the speakers' abilities to convey information. The participants were 14 fluent (CEF B2/C1) English L2 speakers who held the same oral presentation twice, once in English and once in their native Swedish. The temporal…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Xie, Xiaoyan – ELT Journal, 2011
Drawing on data from three English classrooms at two Chinese universities, this paper documents the turn-taking patterns that the teachers and students developed over time and explores how these patterns affected students' opportunities to participate in classroom discourse. The data were collected through observations, audio- and video-taping,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Classroom Communication, Language Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Loyson, Peter – Journal of Chemical Education, 2010
This article describes the use of Latin-derived words and terms used in chemistry, and explores the meaning of these words, so as to lead to a better understanding of these words, so commonly used in the teaching of chemistry. As the article shows, there are many such words, and with some elementary knowledge, a greater meaning is given to these…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Education, Vocabulary Development, Latin
Perales Escudero, Moises Damian – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation project examines the implementation of a critical reading intervention in a Mexican university, and the emergence of target critical reading processes in Mexican college-level EFL readers. It uses a Complexity Theory-inspired, qualitative methodology. Orienting the selection and design of materials is a deep view of culture that…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Critical Reading, Intervention, Ideology
Nishimura, Amy – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Teaching within institutions that prototypically privilege the social order of language is often problematic for both genders, especially because we tend to occupy masculine lines of rhetoric. The "standards" that women adhere to are not always associated in the feminine construction, and when we question "standards," the…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Altruism, Females, Figurative Language
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Boers, Frank; Eyckmans, June; Stengers, Helene – Language Teaching Research, 2007
Instead of being completely arbitrary, the meaning of many idioms is "motivated" by their original, literal usage. In an FLT context, this offers the possibility of presenting idioms in ways that promote insightful learning rather than "blind" memorization. Associating an idiom with its etymology has been shown to enhance retention. This effect…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Etymology, Mnemonics, Figurative Language
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Dafouz, E.; Nunez, B.; Sancho, C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
In recent years, many European countries have witnessed a rapid implementation of the CLIL approach at tertiary level. In Spain, although English has been introduced as the language of instruction in some master and doctoral courses, the application of the CLIL approach is still isolated. Similarly, little research has been done into CLIL…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
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