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Adika, Gordon S. K. – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
Drawing from a social constructionist perspective to written scholarly communication, this paper argues that training in academic writing for students in higher education especially in second language contexts should go beyond emphasis on grammatical correctness and paragraphing strategies, and also focus on the rhetorical character of academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credibility, Accountability, Academic Discourse
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Agor, John T. – English Language Teaching, 2014
This paper presents the results of a one-year longitudinal study which sought to investigate the effect that strategy instruction may have on English language achievement. Two classes of junior high school students at Madina in Ghana were involved in an experiment. The experimental class was taught various language-learner strategies both…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies, Control Groups