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Arefsadr, Sajjad; Babaii, Esmat – TESL-EJ, 2023
According to the IELTS official website, IELTS candidates usually score lower in the IELTS Writing test than in the other language skills. This is disappointing for the many IELTS candidates who fail to get the overall band score they need. Surprisingly enough, few studies have addressed this issue. The present study, then, is aimed at shedding…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Lina Wirth; Burak Aydin; Timo Ehmke; Jan Retelsdorf; Poldi Kuhl – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Current trends in educational research focus on understanding situational processes and the dynamics of achievement emotions. In this context, the features of the learning environment and their situational impact on achievement emotions play a significant role. In this study, we consider academic language demands as a feature of the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Language, College Students, Video Technology, Instructional Films
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Breno B. Silva; Katarzyna Kutylowska; Agnieszka Otwinowska – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The involvement load hypothesis (ILH), which predicts the lexical learning potential of tasks, assumes that writing sentences (SW) and compositions (CW) using novel target words (TWs) lead to similar lexical gains. However, research on the issue is scarce and contradictory. One possibility is that the higher cognitive load of CW hinders learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition)
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Qin, Wenjuan; Zhang, Xizi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
In successful writing development, English as a foreign language (EFL) learners not only need to acquire grammatical complexity (GC) features but also know when and how to use them flexibly across communicative contexts, known as register flexibility. The present study, guided by the sociocultural theory of language learning, examines descriptive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Grammar
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Võ Th? Di?m My; Nguy?n Van L?i – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study examined Vietnamese English majors' competence and perception of academic collocations to determine the need for targeted instruction. The research aimed to identify specific challenges these learners face in learning and using academic collocations in their writing. Methods: The study involved 199 Vietnamese English…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Cunningham, Christine M.; Kelly, Gregory J.; Meyer, Natacha – Science Education, 2021
In this position paper, we draw from previous research and theoretical developments in the field to propose a set of affordances of engineering with English learners (ELs). Students learning both the language of instruction (e.g., English) and academic subject matter (e.g., engineering, mathematics, science) face the challenge of making sense of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Affordances, Engineering Education, STEM Education
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Erturk, Gulsah Tikiz; Ozturk, Kadim – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study aims to identify (1) how EFL graduate-level students at various Turkish universities regard the level of difficulty in terms of the different sections of a scholarly work in their academic writing practices, (2) whether their perceptions concerning the difficulty of the various sections show a significant difference depending on their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Subandowo, Dedy – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
The language features of the second language (L2) English academic texts written by Indonesian graduate students enrolled in Hungarian higher education are employed in the present study. The study focuses on the level of abstraction and informational density in student assignments in particular. Seven high-stakes essays were collected from seven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yoko Suganuma Oi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper analyzes writing tasks in academic writing textbooks for Japanese university students, focusing on the organization and difficulty of these tasks based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). A total of 411 writing tasks from 30 textbooks were coded by two experienced Japanese English teachers. The author…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Writing Instruction, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Ankawi, Ayman – English Language Teaching, 2022
Education outcomes for L2 students in academic preparation programs, undergraduate studies, and graduate work are directly influenced by the learning and use of academic vocabulary. Among 15 Saudi graduate students studying in New Zealand, this study investigated at their perspectives with academic vocabulary learning. Students in Saudi Arabia who…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yuliani, Tatin; Kurniawati, Nia; Siswayani, Predari – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
One crucial skill to master by university students related to academic writing activity is paraphrasing skill. However, in Indonesian context, the university students still find paraphrasing challenging. Therefore, this study is intended to explore the use of read, reread, list, compose (RRLC) strategy to enhace the students' paraphrasing skill in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
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Hung Tan Ha; Duyen Thi Bich Nguyen; Tim Stoeckel – Language Testing, 2024
Word frequency has a long history of being considered the most important predictor of word difficulty and has served as a guideline for several aspects of second language vocabulary teaching, learning, and assessment. However, recent empirical research has challenged the supremacy of frequency as a predictor of word difficulty. Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yao, Don – English Language Teaching, 2020
Computer-based test (CBT) and paper-based test (PBT) are two test modes to the test takers that have been widely adopted in the field of language testing or assessment over the last few decades. Due to the rapid development of science and technology, it is a trend for universities and educational institutions striving rather hard to deliver the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Format, Comparative Analysis
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Flowerdew, John – Language Teaching, 2019
Academics are coming under increasing pressure to publish internationally. Given the global dominance of English, this very likely means publishing in English-medium journals and with publishers which publish in English. This raises the important question of the possible disadvantage of those scholars whose first language is not English and who…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Language, English for Academic Purposes
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Aguilar-Pérez, Marta; Khan, Sarah – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: Research on EMI (English-Medium Instruction) has addressed the extent to which content lecturers speaking in their L1 perform as well as when they lecture in English. In this study a lecturer who gave the same lecture in his L1 (Catalan) and English was observed to examine if and how transitioning from one language to another impacts his…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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