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Thi Minh Chau Tran; Bao Trang Thi Nguyen; Pham Thi Hong Nhung; Lien-Huong Vo; Van Huy Nguyen – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Our study examined the difficulties Vietnamese Masters (MA) in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages) students encountered while writing their MA theses. Using a a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, data were collected from 29 MA TESOL students who had completed their theses at a university in central Vietnam. Fifteen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Theses, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Yang, Rong; Hu, Guangwei; Lei, Jun – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
This study explores Chinese English-major students' intertextual competence and factors shaping their ability to paraphrase in academic writing. Multiple instruments were employed to collect data from 212 English-major students at different academic levels from nine universities in mainland China. The data were analyzed to determine how a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Academic Language
Çesme, Hatice – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
This study aims to investigate performances and strategies of EFL graduate students in terms of language proficiency, language background and type of writing task. The participants were 12 graduate students pursuing their doctoral studies in ELT at a Turkish university. A chosen text was used for data collection and the students' paraphrased texts…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Congcong Xing; Guanglun Michael Mu; Deborah Henderson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With English hegemony sustained in 'multicultural' Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Universities, Sociology, Resilience (Psychology)
Subandowo, Dedy – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
The language features of the second language (L2) English academic texts written by Indonesian graduate students enrolled in Hungarian higher education are employed in the present study. The study focuses on the level of abstraction and informational density in student assignments in particular. Seven high-stakes essays were collected from seven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Joseph Jeyaraj, Joanna; Too, Wei Keong; Lasito, Eni Ermawati – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
At postgraduate level, success often depends on the ability to produce quality academic writing. To develop a framework to support postgraduate research writing, we explored the writing experiences of twenty-four postgraduate students from non-native English-speaking backgrounds. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with these participants,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, Student Experience, Second Language Learning
Amanda K. Kibler; April S. Salerno; Elena Andrei – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Several language dichotomies -- particularly the pervasive idea that "academic" language distinctly contrasts with "social" language -- have dominated teachers' thinking and discourse about language-related instructional practices in recent decades. Many researchers now question ramifications that binary thinking about language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Academic Language
Yu, Shulin – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
This case study examines postgraduate students' practices, sources of knowledge, and difficulties and challenges in regard to providing genre-based peer feedback on their peers' academic writing at a research-oriented university in Macau. The analysis of multiple sources of data including the students' written feedback on their peers' thesis…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Case Studies, Criticism
Clementine Pippa Ebel – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
This paper is an overview of key integration challenges facing Chinese students at UK higher education institutions (HEIs). It responds to recent admissions diversification strategies launched by UK institutions as well as increasingly critical narratives surrounding Chinese students. The independently researched report argues that students from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Students, Asians, Student Adjustment
Wijaya, Kristian Florensio – Journal of English Teaching, 2021
There is a propensity for language teachers to handicap graduate students as independent, competent, and strategic academic writers. Therefore, it is easier to discover graduate students struggling intensely to produce and publish qualified academic writing products to targeted journal articles. Due to this ubiquitous fact, self-regulated learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Masters Programs
Yeo, Joseph; O'Donoghue, Gemma – Student Success, 2023
To address the demands from their courses, students with insufficient language proficiency who cannot attend the standard subject-specific academic language development program are directed to an alternative discipline-specific program -- the Language Development Tutorial in Block mode, at the University of Technology Sydney. This practice report…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Academic Language, Universities, English for Academic Purposes
Kim, Mira – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This article sets out to introduce a Personalised Autonomous (PA) model as a holistic and sustainable model to address the issue of international students' English Language Proficiency (ELP) in Australian higher education. This model was embedded in a credit-bearing course entitled Personalised English Language Enhancement (PELE). Both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language)
Demir, Dursun; Genç, Ayten – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Turkey has hosted many international students from various countries in recent years. After learning Turkish in Turkish language teaching centers of the universities, these students move onto their undergraduate or graduate studies at different departments where they are required to use Turkish in all academic skills without reservation. The aim…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Turkish, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Kukatlapalli, Johnson; Doyle, Stephanie; Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Language proficiency is highlighted in the literature on the adjustment and security of international students. India is the second top source country for mobile students globally, but few studies have focused explicitly on students from India. The purpose of this study was to examine the English language experiences of Indian students at New…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Brown, Annie; Ducasse, Ana Maria – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This study investigates the relationship between performances on the speaking component of the TOEFL iBTTM with performances on academic oral assessment tasks. For the academic tasks, we recorded and transcribed the performances of five local and five high-achieving international undergraduate students on oral assessment tasks in core first-year…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, High Achievement
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