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Kaya, Fatma; Yagiz, Oktay – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study aims to make a comparison between research article abstracts written by two groups in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) by Turkish scholars and non-Turkish scholars working in Anglophone countries to find the rhetorical structure they employ in their abstracts. To achieve this purpose, 390 research article abstracts, 195…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Researchers
Frid, Bailey; Friesen, Deanna C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Reading comprehension performance is predicted by decoding skill and linguistic comprehension (e.g., Hoover & Gough, 1990; Joshi & Aaron, 2012; Scarborough, 2001). However, the type of strategies that readers recruit to build a discourse should also contribute to success in first and second language reading comprehension. Sixty-six French…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, French, Immersion Programs
Kim, Kyung; Clariana, Roy B. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2015
In order to further validate and extend the application of recent knowledge structure (KS) measures to second language settings, this investigation explores how second language (L2, English) situation models are influenced by first language (L1, Korean) translation tasks. Fifty Korean low proficient English language learners were asked to read an…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Models
Ilynska, Larisa; Smirnova, Tatjana; Platonova, Marina – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The paper presents discussion of the results of extensive empirical research into efficient methods of educating and training translators of LSP (language for special purposes) texts. The methodology is based on using popular LSP texts in the respective fields as one of the main media for translator training. The aim of the paper is to investigate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Indo European Languages, Languages for Special Purposes
Shih-Chieh Chien – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to look at Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' organizational strategy use in English writing at universities in Taiwan. One significant area that has been indicated in contrastive rhetoric studies spins around the notion of culturally constructed organizational patterns. It is claimed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Universities
Dreher, Mariam Jean; Gray, Jennifer Letcher – Reading Teacher, 2009
In this article, we describe how to help primary-grade English language learners use compare-contrast text structures. Specifically, we explain (a) how to teach students to identify the compare-contrast text structure, and to use this structure to support their comprehension, (b) how to use compare-contrast texts to activate and extend students'…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis

Hague, Sally A.; Scott, Renee – Foreign Language Annals, 1994
Describes a study that investigated the types of rhetorical structures that beginning-level Spanish students encounter in their textbook reading materials. The intent of the study was to determine whether there was a match between the types of structures that English-speaking students are most typically able to demonstrate awareness of and the…
Descriptors: Authors, English, Instructional Materials, Introductory Courses
Arsyad, Safnil – Online Submission, 2000
This study examined and compared the rhetorical structure of argumentative texts written by three groups of university students: 1) twenty Indonesian texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.I.); 2) ten English texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.E.); 3) ten English texts written by English native speakers (A.E.). Following the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Indonesian, Cultural Differences