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Gonca Subasi; Seda Uner – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
Effective writing requires important features and one of them is cohesion which is necessary to bind a text. Halliday and Hasan (1976) state that grammatical and lexical devices which are called cohesive devices (CDs) create texture. To make a text coherent and understandable, CDs should be used frequently and skilfully. The present study aims to…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Essays, Opinions, English (Second Language)
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Masumeh Rahimivand; Saeideh Ahangari; Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid – Language Testing in Asia, 2025
Writing comprehensibly, dynamically, and persuasively in a foreign language is a significant challenge for learners. Written communication assesses language and writing progress for various summative and developmental goals. Scenario-based assessment (SBA), as one of the methodologies of classroom-based assessment (CBA), aims to elicit both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ambreen, Fatima; Ozdemir, Burhan; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Textism, which refers to the special language used in text messaging, is widely used in several forms of communication, such as texting, online chatting and emails. This increased use of textism has alarmed the media and the public because this special language can impact the academic writing of the younger generation. This paper aimed at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
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Kahraman, Mehmet; Subasi, Gonca – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The present study aims to reveal the use of high-frequency verbs "make" and "do" when they occur in a verb+noun combination in the argumentative essays of Turkish learners of English. In this context, the present study investigated the grammatical and semantic patterns and erroneous productions in the learner corpus. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse
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Qiuyun Lu; Alice Deignan – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners' awareness of them. To investigate this, we analyzed 72 argumentative essays written in English by a group of 37 intermediate Chinese university students of English. We identified metaphors using an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mostafa Papi; Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Masatoshi Sato – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This study explored the role of feedback-seeking behaviors (FSB) in how English-as-a-second language (ESL) learners benefit from written corrective feedback (WCF). Seventy-six learners enrolled in an ESL writing course at a major university in the United States completed an FSB questionnaire, wrote a narrative essay, received WCF on their essays,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Yujiao Zhang – SAGE Open, 2023
Multidimensional (MD) analysis contributes to a comprehensive linguistic description of second language (L2) writing texts. However, cross-linguistic studies based on MD analysis are still insufficient and need to be increased. In particular, the unavailability of comparable corpora prevents current MD-based L2 writing research from making…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse, Essays, English (Second Language)
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Ait Hammou, Brahim; Larouz, Mohammed; Fagroud, Mustapha; Akki, Fouad – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2023
This study aims to examine the relationship between the productive knowledge of some lexical and phraseological indices and the quality of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' writing. A sample of 120 expository essays, written by semesters 1 and 5 university students in a less proficient EFL context, are rated by human evaluators and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Papangkorn, Papitchaya; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The present study aimed at investigating the similarities and differences of interactional metadiscourse markers and 3-word and 4-word participant-oriented bundles used in English argumentative texts of native speakers of English (NATIVE) and L1 Thai speakers (THAI) through the use of AntConc. The findings revealed that stance resources were used…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Thai, Second Language Instruction
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Ming Chen; Yongbing Liu – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This corpus-based study investigates lexical richness in English writing by Chinese senior high school students. Lexical uses in 303 compositions were compared across three grades in terms of lexical sophistication, variation, density and errors. Timed compositions were sampled from Writing Corpus of English Learners, and the sample sizes of three…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, High School Students, Connected Discourse, Foreign Countries
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Sophea, Yin; Chanyoo, Natthapong – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the tendency to use temporal markers (TMs) in English writing by three different levels of Thai writers. Data used in this study were based on the Corpus of Thai Writers of English. The corpus size of approximately 8,800,000 words consisted of essay writing produced by intermediate and advanced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Beth Muthoni Kangangi; Catherine Waithera Ndung'U; Peter Kinyanjui Mwangi – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
The study examined the types of language errors made by learners in the English narrative essays. It also assessed the feedback techniques employed by teachers of English in the handling of language errors in the English narrative essays. A descriptive research design was employed to examine errors of English narrative essays of 181 form two…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dararat Khampusaen – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study investigates the impact of ChatGPT on EFL students' argumentative writing development of 30 third-year English majors. The research examines writing quality improvements, student perceptions, and patterns of AI tool usage across a 16-week period. This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate both students' writing…
Descriptors: Integrity, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Artificial Intelligence
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Balkir, Nalan Bayraktar; Celik, Handan; Cepni, Gokhan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigated lexical complexity in English language teaching (ELT) students' essays across genres and over the course of time. The essays included descriptive, compare and contrast, advantage and disadvantage, and argumentative genres. Employing a longitudinal, quasi-experimental and repeated measures design in a year-long writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Li, Hang; Yao, Yao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The present study examined the effect of language background and topic on productive formulaic competence. Guided by usage-based theory of language learning, this study used a distribution-based approach to the examination of the native-likeness of formulaic usage in English timed argumentative writing. Six indices informed by a large-scale native…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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