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Download full textSaban Kara – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The accelerating pace of technological trends has numerous reflections in education. Accordingly, various tools have been utilized to reap their benefits in English classes. Among others, infographics, which combine text with visually stimulating images, stand out thanks to their advantages, such as being concise and academically rewarding.…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Competence, 21st Century Skills, Visual Aids
Aziz, Awder Raza; Nuri, Rebaz Bahadeen Mohammed – Arab World English Journal, 2021
The quality of any academic essay highly depends on cohesion and coherence since they affect the overall quality and the tone of the writing to a great extent. Conjunctive adverbials are among the types of devices which logically help linking sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into essays. Conjunctive Adverbials ultimately affect the…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Rawdhan, Ahmed; Ebadi, Saman; Loan, Nguyen Thi Thuy – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
By employing Chen and Kuo's (2012) framework, this study comparatively investigated the rhetorical differences/similarities existing in the Literature Review chapters of Master of Arts (MA) theses authored by international and Iraqi MA students in the field of applied linguistics. The results showed that almost half of the international LR…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Masters Theses
Khazaal, Edhah Numan – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Writing is one of the essential poles of language learning, and should be one of the senior interest, and concern to teachers, students, and researchers. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of using the summarizing strategy on postgraduates 'learners. To develop the summary writing skills, two months implementation is applied to…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkHoff, Meagan A. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
Relatively little is known about the long-term academic literacy development of refugee-background students, particularly at the postsecondary level. The purpose of this study was to understand how refugee students leveraged their cultural and linguistic resources to navigate a competency-based online college program. Using a multiple case study,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Academic Language, Refugees, College Students
Hussein, Kawther Abdual Ameer; Khalil, Jinan Ahmed; Abbas, Nawal Fadhil – Arab World English Journal, 2018
The present study is intended to critically examine metadiscourse markers in 24 master thesis abstracts. Twelve of them are written by non-native Iraqi female students and the rest by native American female students. To do so, the researchers have set two aims: examining the types and subtypes of metadiscourse markers in terms of nativity and…
Descriptors: Masters Theses, Documentation, Females, North Americans
