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Toyese Najeem Dahunsi; Thompson Olusegun Ewata – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Multi-word expressions are formulaic language universals with arbitrary and idiosyncratic collocations. Their usage and mastery are required of learners of a second language in achieving naturalness. However, despite the importance of multi-word expressions to mastering a second language, their syntactic architecture and colligational…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kimura, Daisuke – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This article traces the intellectual roots and developments of the notion of competence in second language (L2) teaching and research. Since L2 teaching and research invariably concern competence of some sort (linguistic, communicative, interactional, or otherwise), there have been countless attempts to define competence from diverse theoretical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Research
Lee, Sinae; Park, Hae In – English Teaching, 2023
While metadiscourse use has been well-attended in second language (L2) writing research, relatively less effort has been made in documenting changing patterns of metadiscourse use among L2 writers. The present study addressed this gap by probing a diachronic change of interactive metadiscourse in research articles published in "English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Research, Language Patterns
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
Estela Ene; Thomas A. Upton – CALICO Journal, 2024
Teacher-moderated online chats are a common option for conducting writing conferences with students. The efficacy of chat sessions is impacted by the expectations for and structure of these sessions. This corpus-based study used a move analysis to determine the purposes and organization of 129 chats between 3 experienced teachers and 106 students…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Arsyad, Safnil; Madani; Pratiwi, Vika Armanda; An-Nashir, Abdullah Azzam; Erviona, Lussy; Hasiyanti; Marjelina, Oktasya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Authors should attract readers to read their articles from the very beginning of the article; this is important because readers will stop reading an article if they are not sure that they will obtain new, interesting and important information from the article. This study aims to investigate the rhetorical moves found in a research article abstract…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Authors, Discourse Analysis, Research Reports
Park, Hae In; Lee, Sinae – English Teaching, 2022
While the use of metadiscourse in L2 writing has received considerable attention in the past, little effort has been made to examine how L2 writers' use of metadiscourse in academic writing has evolved over time. In addressing this, the present study explored a diachronic evolution of interactional metadiscourse in research articles (RAs)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Diachronic Linguistics, Periodicals
Öz, Gülsah – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2022
The purpose of the current study was to examine the frequently used boosters in academic articles written by Native (NESs) and Non-native (NNESs) Speakers of English (Turkish researchers) in the field of English Language Teaching. Investigating whether differences exist in the use of these markers between NESs and NNESs' academic articles was…
Descriptors: Research Reports, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Turkish
Jarkovská, Martina; Kucírková, Lenka – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
Adopting Hyland's (2002) framework of reporting words (RVs), the paper investigates the use of RVs in Master's theses written in English by students of two disciplines, Economics and Management and Natural Resources. The data were drawn from two sub-corpora, each consisting of 82 Literature Reviews, where other authors' research is summarised and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Morphemes
Atar, Cihat; Erdem, Cahit – Online Submission, 2019
In this study, Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Conversation Analysis (CA) is discussed as methods of data analysis. Both CL as a quantitative tool and CA as a qualitative tool have their own strengths and weaknesses for applied linguistics studies. So, the tenets of each view are evaluated and the similarities and differences between them are…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Research
Hall, Joan Kelly; Wang, Tianfang; Khor, Su Yin – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
A great deal of research undertaken in child language development, neurolinguistics and various branches of functional and cognitive linguistics has shown that a main source of language development is the spoken input to which learners are exposed. Despite the fact that for most adult L2 learners, the greatest exposure to the L2 is the input they…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Questioning Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Patson Jaihow; Kemtong Sinwongsuwat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Even though corpora have transformed language education, the majority of corpus-related research focuses on the teaching of writing. Via a systematic review of previous studies and a survey of language corpora available, this study aims to ascertain whether and to what extent the teaching of speaking, especially of conversation skills, to EFL…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication
Reich, Pavel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The aim of the present paper is to focus on the language of Human Resources (HR) as one of the subfields of English for business purposes in respect of positive evaluation and stancetaking and to identify to what extent evaluative language common in real-life situations is reflected in currently available textbooks of English for HR (EHR).…
Descriptors: Human Resources, English for Special Purposes, Business English, Second Language Learning
Hashemi, Mohammad Reza; Hosseini, Hosna – Advanced Education, 2019
This study tended to investigate the effect of culture, as depicted in language, on the use of stance in the applied linguistics research articles of two groups: native speakers of Persian, and native speakers of English. The two corpora comprising the discussion sections of forty research articles from reliable journals were compared for amounts…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Research Reports, Periodicals
Hellmich, Emily A. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Recent calls from applied linguistics and from CALL have emphasized the importance of situating the understanding and use of digital tools for language learning within layered contexts. An important component of these layered contexts is societal discourses of technology, which are multiple and far from neutral. In response to these calls, this…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes