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Adrienne Jankens; Nicole Guinot Varty; Anna Lindner; Linda Jimenez; Anita Mixon; Carly Braxton; K. M. Begian-Lewis – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Through surveys and focus group conversations, we studied students' experiences with instruction in writing-intensive (WI) courses at our urban R1 university and their awareness of and attitudes about linguistic diversity. Specifically, we have explored discrepancies between students' experiences with languaging, language judgment, and our…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Student Diversity, Language Usage
Jing Lan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
Writing ability is an essential skill for college students to improve their school performance and complete their academic writing tasks. Proficient English writing skills are also highly advantageous for their future career prospects and personal growth. However, many English learners face difficulties in various aspects of English writing. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Difficulties, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
Haibo Shen; Michael Singh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The monolingual English norm in current education and academic discourse has continuously marginalised the linguistic and theoretical resources in languages other than English. Drawing upon evidence from Chinese bilingual postgraduate researchers and their supervisors, this paper reconsiders their potentials for bilingual theorising with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Graduate Students, Researchers
Rui Yuan; Art Tsang; Sifei Li – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The study examined international and home students' perceptions of intercultural collaborative learning in an English as a medium of instruction (EMI) environment in a Chinese university. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews, the findings showed that international students held a positive view, reporting gains from the cultural, subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Cooperative Learning, Language of Instruction
Margaret Osgood Opatz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the extent to which preservice teachers could identify various academic language markers (general academic and discipline-specific vocabulary, passive voice, nominalization, logical connections, and referents--pronouns and synonyms) in complex texts and describe the language that make texts…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Academic Language, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Kun Dai; Ian Hardy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
A growing number of international doctoral students choose to study in China, a non-traditional learning destination. However, relatively few studies have investigated these students' academic writing practices while undertaking their studies in China. This study draws upon Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, and capital, and the notion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Writing Processes, Foreign Countries
De Costa, Peter I., Ed.; Li, Wendy, Ed.; Lee, Jongbong, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2022
This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills. The book…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multilingualism, Writing Instruction, Academic Language
Eman S. Akeel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Corpus-based studies of lexical bundles have opened new avenues for language teaching research. The fact that naturally occurring language consists of patterns of lexical repetition and multi-word units has given rise to the question of chunkiness in learner language. This study was designed to examine lexical bundles and their functions in a…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Ingrid Vinje Storheil; Jonas Yassin Iversen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Despite burgeoning research on translanguaging in education, research on translanguaging approaches to literacy education has lagged behind that of research on oral translanguaging in education. Hence, this article investigates what translanguaging strategies six multilingual newly arrived students used in the production of an academic text, and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhang-Wu, Qianqian – Written Communication, 2023
It is important to understand multilingual students' lived experiences and sense-making in their everyday written communication before rethinking the implementation of translingual writing in college composition classrooms. Unpacking multilinguals' written communication across social and academic contexts, this exploratory qualitative study…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Code Switching (Language), Translation
Thomas, Leon C., III – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A growing body of research has focused on Black and Latino males in community colleges, but the research has stopped short of exploring how they experience the academic language of the community college. The purpose of this qualitative, narrative study was to explore the stories of Black and Latino males at a community college in Maryland to…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students
Yoon, Hyung-Jo; Römer, Ute – Written Communication, 2020
This article reports on a study that explored cross-disciplinary variation in the use of metadiscourse markers in advanced-level student writing, put forward as a realistic target for novice writers. Starting from the stance and engagement categories included in Hyland's model, we first conducted a comprehensive quantitative analysis of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Intellectual Disciplines, Academic Language, College Students
Cheung, Yin Ling; Low, Tze Hui – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
This article examines how writer's voice is constructed in argumentative essays written at the pre-university level. The study focusses on the student writers' control over evaluative resources that influence the realization of voice in the high-scoring and low-scoring scripts. Using the APPRAISAL system in Systemic Functional Linguistics, the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Marco Antonio Martinez Leandro – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenological study research presents an option to use both discourse in the native language and technology as an alternative to improve the understanding of mathematics in secondary education. 13 students whose native language is Spanish attended a high school in a large urban school district in the Southwest of the United States,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Peer Teaching, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
Moore, Miriam – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
This study examines the nature of metalinguistic awareness in first-year college writers enrolled in two-year degree programs, corequisite support courses, or both. Metalinguistic awareness is an ability to systematize knowledge about language and use that knowledge to monitor language as language. Participants in the study completed reading…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Syntax, College Freshmen, Writing Instruction