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A Prelude to Determine 'Datum Point' for MA Writing in English: Comparing Syntactic Complexity of Inner-Circles and Expanding-Circles
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Demir, Cuneyt – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Writing native-like has always been a primary purpose for non-native writers of English and, accordingly, many language components have been investigated to develop writers' fluency. One of these language components is syntactic complexity (SC), which is often regarded as a reliable way to grade any texts from easy to difficult. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction
Russian Accent in English Written Discourse
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Bondarenko, Olga R. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
This research is a multi-aspect exploratory investigation of Russian English institutional written discourse and highlights its features demonstrated by Russian native learners, tertiary students of English for the tourism and hospitality industry. The author approaches the theme from the perspectives of World Englishes and the pedagogical agenda.…
Descriptors: Russian, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Comparative Coh-Metrix Analysis of Reading Comprehension Texts: Unified (Russian) State Exam in English vs. Cambridge First Certificate in English
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Solnyshkina, Marina I.; Harkova, Elena V.; Kiselnikov, Aleksander S. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The article summarizes the results of the comparative study of Reading comprehension texts used in B2 level tests: Unified (Russia) State Exam in English (EGE) and Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE). The research conducted was mainly focused on six parameters measured with the Coh-Metrix, a computational tool producing indices of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Reconciling Form and Content: Acquisition of Cross-Cultural Discourse Structures by Learners of English
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Schmitt, Elena; Hammer, Judith E. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This study analyzes the ability of advanced Russian learners of English as a foreign language (FL) to compose authentic essays in the target language (TL) reflecting morphosyntactic, discursive, and cross-cultural expectations. Thirty-four students at Russian universities were asked to utilize their TL, English, to write compositions focusing on…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
EFL Learners' Production of Questions over Time: Linguistic, Usage-Based, and Developmental Features
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Nekrasova-Beker, Tatiana M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The recognition of second language (L2) development as a dynamic process has led to different claims about how language development unfolds, what represents a learner's linguistic system (i.e., interlanguage) at a certain point in time, and how that system changes over time (Verspoor, de Bot, & Lowie, 2011). Responding to de Bot and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Theory, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes
A Practical Grammar of the St. Lawrence Island/Siberian Yupik Eskimo Language. Second Edition.
Jacobson, Steven A. – 2001
This book deals with the Central Siberian Yupik Eskimo language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, an island near the Bering Strait and on the tip of the Asian mainland opposite Russia. This book has been used with college-level classes composed of a mixture of Yupik speakers and well-prepared non-speakers (people who have studied other,…
Descriptors: Eskimo Aleut Languages, Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Grammar