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Brian Olovson – Dimensions, 2023
This case study focuses on how two learners position themselves as partners in a collaborative writing activity in a Spanish Writing course. I utilize a micro-discourse analytic approach (Eskildsen & Markee, 2018; van Compernolle, 2015, 2018) to highlight the situated nature of collaboration and the dynamicity of the collaborative writing…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Cecilia Guanfang Zhao; Jincheng Wu – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Authorial voice is often identified as a key trait of successful writing in English rhetoric and composition, leading to research on its construction, development, and assessment in various types of written texts. Using Hyland's (2008) interactional metadiscourse framework, existing studies have also examined the use of particular voice-related…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Languages, Writing (Composition), Discourse Analysis
Elabdali, Rima – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
In the present study, I draw on Canagarajah's (2019) negotiated-literacy orientation and the systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach to discourse analysis (Eggins & Slade, 1997) to demonstrate the varying degrees to which Fatima and Chow, two multilingual doctoral students, were able to question and negotiate normative literacy practices…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Ideology, Second Language Learning
Shulin Yu; Yu Zhou; Emily Di Zhang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
While a plethora of research on second language (L2) writing instruction has focused on instructional approaches, teacher feedback and assessment practice, and student learning experiences, little research has examined issues regarding L2 writing curriculum. In particular, L2 writing curriculum discourse, as one important window to probe into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tisapramotkul, Ornuma – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
With borders reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, the travel industry has employed different methods to attract potential customers. One of the popular promotional strategies is advertorials. This study examines 75 travel advertorials from "the Telegraph," a national daily newspaper in the UK, to address two objectives -- 1) to…
Descriptors: Newspapers, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Roya Goodarzi; Javad Gholami; Zeinab Abdollahpour – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Lexical bundles (LBs) are frequent groups of words that appear repeatedly in different academic texts. A plethora of research has explored their distribution and usage in general, particularly in academic texts. However, to our knowledge, the extent of research investigating LBs in the discussion sections of Medical Research Articles (MRAs) is…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Medical Research, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software
Rajab Esfandiari; Omid Allaf-Akbary – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
The purpose of the current study was twofold: examining the efficacy of data-driven learning (DDL) (hands-on and hands-off approaches) in the realization of interactional metadiscourse markers (IMMs) among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners and analyzing the learners' perceptions of DDL. The participants consisted of 93 male and female…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Ren, Beibei – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Writer identity has gradually become a focus in writing scholarship in recent years. From a social constructivist lens, writer identity is not optional; it resides in all texts. And it is a construct that does not exist in a vacuum, but is shaped by the sociocultural and academic context, and simultaneously individual writers agentively select…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Constructivism (Learning)
El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Yahya, Noorchaya; Pawlak, Miroslaw – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
The current study aimed to compare the influence of explicit versus implicit instruction on EFL learners' use of interactional metadiscourse markers in their writing. The study also aimed to explore the perceptions of EFL learners on the instruction of these markers in their writing classes. 120 female undergraduates who are Arab EFL learners took…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tomoko Oyama; Hyun-Sook Kang – Language Awareness, 2024
The present study examined the relative effects of discourse-based and sentence-level grammar instruction on the learning of English present perfect in academic writing, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Participants were 37 multilingual graduate students enrolled in different sections of an ESL-writing course at a U.S.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arsyad, Safnil; Madani; Pratiwi, Vika Armanda; An-Nashir, Abdullah Azzam; Erviona, Lussy; Hasiyanti; Marjelina, Oktasya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Authors should attract readers to read their articles from the very beginning of the article; this is important because readers will stop reading an article if they are not sure that they will obtain new, interesting and important information from the article. This study aims to investigate the rhetorical moves found in a research article abstract…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Authors, Discourse Analysis, Research Reports
Estela Ene; Thomas A. Upton – CALICO Journal, 2024
Teacher-moderated online chats are a common option for conducting writing conferences with students. The efficacy of chat sessions is impacted by the expectations for and structure of these sessions. This corpus-based study used a move analysis to determine the purposes and organization of 129 chats between 3 experienced teachers and 106 students…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Piyanuch Laosrirattanachai; Piyapong Laosrirattanachai – TESL-EJ, 2024
Mastery of the art of crafting online reviews and responses is essential as a valuable additional tool for enhancing learners' English proficiency in specialised contexts. This study aims to: 1) Examine the formality levels in crafting reviews and responses; 2) Explore face-threatening acts utilised in reviews and politeness strategies employed in…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Speech Acts, Pragmatics, English (Second Language)
Rowe, Lindsey Wells – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emergent bilingual students in the U.S. often attend English-medium schools where their bilingual language resources are ignored and dismissed. Research suggests this is harmful for students, but little empirical work has examined how teachers in English-dominant schools can support students' biliteracy. To address this problem, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics