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Qian Du; Ying Liu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
We examined how a group of Chinese undergraduate students understood paraphrasing and source use conventions for research paper writing in English. Prior scholarship has generated valuable insights about novice second language (L2) writers' unconventional source use practices, but little is known about how these writers interpret and understand…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Sittirak, Nantana; Na Ranong, Sirirat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Instrumental competence is universally considered a compulsory competence for translators. Given its significance, this study investigated the instrumental competence of novice translators in translating from and into a foreign language. To this end, an experiment was conducted with a group of 31 Thai EFL learners who had taken English-Thai…
Descriptors: Novices, Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Subramaniam, Radika; Kaur, Sheena – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2023
Literature survey concerning the Learner Corpus Research (LCR) in the last 20 years has shown a paucity of studies involving specialised/discipline-specific text. Since the use of discipline-specific academic writing learner corpora is useful in determining the language pattern within the English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) context, this…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liling Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A key goal in World Language Education (WLE) is challenging learners' preconceived notions about other cultures, aligning with the leading intercultural competence models, national language teaching standards, and the emerging Transformative Language Learning and Teaching (TLLT) paradigm. However, challenging stereotypes remains a concern to…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Barghamadi, Maryam – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
Citation is an essential part of academic writing and allows writers to make strong arguments, review previous research, and express their opinions. This study investigates reporting verbs as a part of citation practice in the research articles published in Iranian and international journals (with different linguacultural backgrounds) in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Research Reports, Citations (References), Periodicals
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Jin, Xiaoling – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This paper reports a case study focusing on naturalistic communication between a Chinese beginning non-native speaker of English (NNS) and an English native speaker (NS). The participants engage informally in a form of tandem learning, with each in turn taking the dominant role in the conversation through teaching the other vocabulary items in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Case Studies
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Filliettaz, Laurent – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Becoming a professional worker involves a wide range of cognitive, social, and cultural processes that have received extensive attention over the past decades amongst various disciplines. It is also not external to language use and communication. Novices in any occupation have to learn technical terms and are expected to master specific discourse…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Novices, Work Environment, Discourse Modes
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Hanh, Le Thi Tuyet – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This study aimed to examine the relationship between Vietnamese university students' learning experience and their vocabulary learning strategy use frequency and perceived usefulness in English as medium of instruction (EMI) classes. The research involved 152 expert EMI students and 183 novice EMI students. A methodological triangulation was used…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Kim, Nayoung – English Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the constraints on implementing task-based language teaching (TBLT) and strategies that make TBLT feasible with novice second language (L2) learners in college. When the researcher (a bilingual teacher) struggled to implement tasks into traditional English courses with almost 210 novice undergraduates…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Buddhima Karunarathna, J. A. M. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
In the arena of English for academic purposes, many nonnative speakers of English in different contexts find it difficult to perform well, because academic genre is alien to them. Current study was based on improving writing skills with a special focus on writing of language hedges in argumentative essays through reading journal articles. The…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Hill, Jane – Educational Leadership, 2016
Teachers love to see the spark of engagement when students eagerly engage in learning. But when teachers work with English language learners in the earliest stages of language acquisition, they're often unsure how to foster challenge and engagement with students who know such sparse English. Hill shares six key do's and don'ts for classroom…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Novices, Guidelines
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Yüksel, H. Gülru; Kavanoz, Suzan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Metadiscourse is essential in establishing pragmatically effective academic written communication. However, little is known about how metadiscourse is used in written texts produced by tertiary level second language learners. This corpus-based linguistic research study aims to explore the frequencies and usages of metadiscourse markers in student…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Watanabe, Aya – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2016
This study explores one novice learner's development of interactional competence in English as a foreign language based on data collected over a 4-year period at an after-school English program in Japan. Using conversation analysis (CA), the study focuses on how the learner develops methods to participate in the multiparty classroom interaction in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, After School Programs
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Félix-Brasdefer, J. César, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2016
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 2014 International Conference of Pragmatics and Language Learning at Indiana University. It includes fourteen papers on a variety of topics, with a diversity of first and second languages, and a wide range of methods used to collect pragmatic data in L2 and FL settings. This volume is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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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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