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Na-on, Rungrudee; Jaturapitakkul, Natjiree – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2017
The aim of this study is to identify cohesion in the research project abstracts of Thai EFL engineering undergraduate students and to determine the writing patterns of their abstracts. Thirty-nine abstracts (200-300 words in length) from the faculty of Engineering in three different disciplines of the International Program were compiled and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Documentation
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Xu, Jian – English Language Teaching, 2009
Based on a review of the historical and current studies on modality, this paper aims at interpreting metaphor of modality and its functions in advertising English according to theories of modality system and metaphor of modality in systemic-functional linguistics with a corpus we have collected. It is pointed out that metaphor of modality, a usual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advertising, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning