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Sophea, Yin; Chanyoo, Natthapong – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the tendency to use temporal markers (TMs) in English writing by three different levels of Thai writers. Data used in this study were based on the Corpus of Thai Writers of English. The corpus size of approximately 8,800,000 words consisted of essay writing produced by intermediate and advanced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Pangaribuan, Tagor; Haddina, Elisa; Manik, Sondang – English Language Teaching, 2018
This research deals with the students' error in using conjunction (because, since, as, in case) in the sentences. Conjunction is very important for the learners to develop a skill in grammar. And grammar is the most important part of language for anyone. Should be first understood before being able to construct sentences, rules based on the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Sentences, Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Lin, Wang – English Language Teaching, 2017
A sentence is an important unit in English language, and plays a crucial role in language teaching and learning as well. For many years, sentence teaching is always worth discussion in English teaching, because sentence imitation is very important for students' construction of logical discourse. This paper, based on memetics, proposes some certain…
Descriptors: Imitation, Sentences, Sentence Structure, Foreign Countries
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Ghasemi, Hadis; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2016
Both lack of time and the need to translate texts for numerous reasons brought about an increase in studying machine translation with a history spanning over 65 years. During the last decades, Google Translate, as a statistical machine translation (SMT), was in the center of attention for supporting 90 languages. Although there are many studies on…
Descriptors: Translation, Indo European Languages, Second Languages, English
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Sloane, David E. E. – English Language Teaching, 2009
X-Word Grammar provides an editing technique for students that is more reliable than trying to identify sentences as complete thoughts. A sentence is redefined as "a group of words that can be turned into a yes-no question with no words left over; starts with a capital letter, and ends with a terminal punctuation mark." Twenty auxiliary…
Descriptors: Grammar, Sentence Structure, Sentences, Verbs