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Albino, Gabriel – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
The present study investigates how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) improve the readability of their texts in an explicit genre-based approach that is utilized in an oil and gas exploration workplace in Angola. By drawing on the English for Specific Purposes and Systemic Functional Linguistics genre traditions, the study engages 18…
Descriptors: Readability, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Khan, Ajmal; Tin, Tan Bee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
An increasing number of researchers rely on genre to analyse academic and professional communication and to see how members of a discourse community use language. Since Swales' (1990) seminal genre analysis of research article introductions, many researchers have carried out genre analysis of various types of professional and academic documents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Styles, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage