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Amir Rouhshad; Catherine Flynn; Lena Turnbull; Bella Ross – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Little is known about what academics focus on when providing assessment feedback to international students for whom English is an additional language (EAL). This study examines written assessment feedback provided to 11 EAL-speaking international students throughout a two-year Master of Social Work programme and investigates their perspectives of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Feedback (Response), Foreign Students
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Clark, Tony; Yu, Guoxing – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This case study explores the challenges that Master's students encounter when learning to write in academic English as part of a UK postgraduate course, after having achieved the required IELTS entry score. Interviews with six Chinese and Japanese learners at different stages of the Master's study revealed more sophisticated writing difficulties…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Critical Thinking
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Hajar, Anas – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
This article provides a qualitative inquiry into the influences of immediate family members (i.e. parents and siblings) on a group of Gulf Arab EFL students regarding their language learning experiences and strategy use in their Arab homelands. The participants came from financially comfortable families, with different levels of education. The…
Descriptors: Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Xin; Hale, Sandra – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Courtroom interpreting requires a high level of accuracy due to the strategic use of language in such an institutional setting. It is generally agreed among interpreting scholars that quality interpreting in court should accurately relay both propositional content and illocutionary force of the original utterances. This high standard of accuracy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Court Litigation, Translation, Accuracy
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Al Hamdany, Hayder; Picard, Michelle – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This paper explores the perceptions of Iraqi students of three different English Programs (a general English for academic purposes program, a pre-enrolment English program and the English component of a disciplinary bridging program) at an Australian University as reflected in their language learning narratives. It focuses specifically on the…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction