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Mokibelo, Eureka B. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
This paper examines the micro planning activities that schools engage in to address learners' needs to make education work in rural primary schools of Botswana. The national language plan prescribes the use of English and Setswana only as languages of instruction at the primary school level. However, this plan is not practical in some regions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Elementary Schools, Official Languages
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Hu, Chunyu; Li, Yuanyuan – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Discourse connectives (DCs) are multi-functional devices used to connect discourse segments and fulfill interpersonal levels of discourse. This study investigates the use of selected 80 DCs within 11 categories in the argumentative essays produced by L1 and L2 university students. The analysis is based on the International Corpus Network of Asian…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction