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Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
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Alharbi, Bader – English Language Teaching, 2018
The purpose of this study is to explore the existing effect of gloss conditions on reading comprehension and vocabulary understanding of learners in the context of English as a foreign language. The study composed of 72 male students aged between 19 and 21 years selected from Qassim University in Saudi Arabia. The participants were divided into…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Postsecondary Education, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Huang, Shiying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The issue of voice has received considerable critical attention in second language writing (SLW) in the past decades. This study intends to enrich the research of voice in the Chinese context, which may mirror some issues in EFL environments. The short story writing process of an English-major undergraduate was particularly analyzed in this study,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Wuttisrisiriporn, Niwat – English Language Teaching, 2017
Genre analysis is today's dominant approach for textual analysis, especially in the ESP learning and teaching profession. Adopting this approach, the present study compares the Introduction chapters of MA theses in ELT (English Language Teaching) written by Thai students to those written by American university students based on the move-step…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Models
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Azar, Ali Sorayyaei; Hashim, Azirah – English Language Teaching, 2014
The classes, purposes and characteristics associated with the review article in the field of applied linguistics were analyzed. The data were collected from a randomly selected corpus of thirty two review articles from a discipline-related key journal in applied linguistics. The findings revealed that different sub-genres can be identified within…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Periodicals, Journal Articles
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Shen, Yanxia – English Language Teaching, 2008
Considering the difficulties in understanding the global meaning of texts, this paper intends to give some suggestions on how to help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensive reading classroom within the framework of schema theory. The purpose of this paper is expressed in three ways. The first is to give a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Schemata (Cognition), Reading Instruction, Language Processing