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Direct linkAbbas Hadizadeh; Mehmet Kanik – European Journal of Education, 2025
This qualitative study explores the perceptions and conceptions of academic writing among 14 ELT students in an English medium instruction (EMI) context at an international university in Northern Cyprus, an under-researched setting. The study revealed that participants faced a variety of challenges and employed strategic approaches that created…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Academic Language
Download full textSusilowati, Novi Eka; Luciandika, Ariva; Mardasari, Octi Rjeky; Zhao, Yanhua – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The learning of Indonesian for foreign speakers (bahasa Indonesia untuk penutur asing/BIPA) develops very fast. One of them is the People's Republic of China (PRC). In line with this, the government of PRC shows a serious intention to learn Indonesian language by sending their students to learn the Indonesian language in Indonesia through BIPA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
Khantiwong, Waraphorn; Thienthong, Atikhom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This article reports the results of a study that explored Thai EFL learners' repertoire of congruent and incongruent academic English (L2) collocations in relation to their native-Thai language (L1) and academic experience. Eighty Thai tertiary students performed a gap-filling translation test on 15 congruent and 15 incongruent collocations by…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bian, Xu; Cai, Xiaojun; Cai, Dianmei – International Journal of Listening, 2021
The study investigated the relationship between listening and reading vocabularies and their contributions to English listening comprehension of advanced Chinese EFL learners from two universities in China. Measures of reading and listening vocabularies consisted of 5,000 and academic vocabularies. Two tasks involved in the listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Sight Vocabulary, Academic Language
Diagnostic Assessment of Novice EFL Learners' Discourse Competence in Academic Writing: A Case Study
Wang, Yumin; Xie, Qin – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Discourse competence is an essential component of communicative competence and central to the mastery of academic writing. This article reports a three-tiered diagnostic assessment of two English as a foreign language (EFL) student writers' discourse competence in terms of textual features, composing strategies, and knowledge about academic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Diagnostic Tests
Ebadi, Saman; Pourahmadi, Fereshteh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
This study is intended to explore challenges in writing master theses from postgraduate English as Foreign Language (EFL) students' and supervisors' perspectives. To do so, 40 EFL postgraduate students and 10 supervisors were selected nonrandomly based on availability sampling from five major Iranian universities. Qualitative data were gathered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
Al-khazraji, Asmaa – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Discourse markers improve the quality of writing and increase the comprehension of text. This paper attempts to throw more light in measuring the students' knowledge about Discourse Markers. This paper aims to exponentiate the Discourse Markers in ESL students' essay writing. The Qualitative data was collected from intermediate students of grade 9…
Descriptors: Essays, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Holi Ali, Holi Ibrahim; Al Washahi, Qasim; Alhassan, Awad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
IELTS is used as a screening gatekeeper and plays a crucial role in Omani students to meet job requirements. This paper reports on Omani English-major undergraduate students' reflections on their experience of the reading section of Academic IELTS. The main aim of the study was to elucidate their difficulties and coping strategies to inform…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Testing Accommodations, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
