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Chen, Yuan-Shan; Su, Shao-Wen – ELT Journal, 2012
This study utilizes a pre-test/post-test assessment to investigate the instructional efficacy of a genre-based approach to teaching summary writing. Forty-one EFL university students in Taiwan were asked before and after the instruction to summarize a simplified version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in a maximum of 500 words. All the students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
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Wood, David – ELT Journal, 2009
Engineering students in North American universities often participate in cooperative education placements in workplaces as part of the requirements for their degrees and professional certification. Students for whom English is an L2 often experience difficulties in these placements due to the fact that while their academic language ability may be…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Universities, Ethnography, Work Environment
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Davies, Eirlys E. – ELT Journal, 1985
Suggests that the notion of "normal" English as opposed to "literary" English leads to a considerably oversimplified view of how language is used. Suggests that courses be designed to increase the understanding of stylistic variation by advanced students of English so that they can improve their receptive and productive skills. (SED)
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Language Styles
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Badger, Richard; White, Goodith – ELT Journal, 2000
Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of product, process, and genre approaches to writing in terms of their view of writing and how they see the development of writing. Argues that the three approaches are complementary, and identifies an approach that is informed by each of them. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Styles, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Stapleton, Paul – ELT Journal, 2002
Focuses on the stereotyping of learners by exploring the beliefs of Japanese students about appropriate writing styles and strategies. Results confirm earlier work that generalizations about the expectations and attitudes of students from particular cultural and regional backgrounds are likely to be misleading. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Generalization
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Casanave, Christine Pearson – ELT Journal, 2003
Discusses ways that applied linguistics literature can be used in a multidisciplinary graduate-level English for academic purposes class. Focuses on three main uses: (1) providing students with information about issues in academic and professional writing; (2) helping them make comparisons of form and style with academic articles in their own…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Graduate Study
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Lynch, A. J. – ELT Journal, 1988
Summarizes some preliminary findings from research into the nature and effect of various discourse modifications by a native speaker to a language learner. These modifications include (1) idiom avoidance; (2) comprehension checks and pauses; and (3) selection of information. An informal experiment gauging foreign students' impression of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Idioms