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Alm, Antonie; Watanabe, Yuki – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This short paper reports on the preliminary findings of a study into the use of Online Translators (OTs) by university language students. Students of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish and their teachers responded to comparative surveys on their respective use and evaluation of OTs for L2 writing in formal language learning contexts.…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kennedy, Olivia – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This article explores how 40 first-year students in a compulsory English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course undertook written tasks during a semester suddenly undertaken online. The university in Japan described here provided on-demand lessons via the Learning Management System (LMS) during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Students prepared…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Sevcikova, Beata Lewis – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present research offers an assessment of the online open source tools used in the L2 academic writing, teaching, and learning environment. As fairly little research has been conducted on how to best use online automated proofreaders for educational purposes, the objective of this study is to examine the potential of such online tools. Unlike…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Academic Discourse
Mathis-Wisseh, Ruth D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This case study, conducted in the context of an interactive classroom-based action research, has examined the process by which Language 1 (L1-native speakers of English) and Language 2 (L2-non-native speakers of English) students develop the ability to acquire the standard written form of the English language. The dissertation was designed to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Focus Groups, Student Surveys, Learning Processes
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Hennebry, Mairin; Lo, Yuen Yi; Macaro, Ernesto – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
We report a small-scale study investigating the perceptions of postgraduate students who are non-native speakers of English and those of academic staff with regard to those students. Previous research has focused only on the former and identified a number of linguistic and cultural challenges these students face in adapting to Anglophone…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Chang, Wen-Li; Sun, Yu-Chih – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2009
The present study investigates the effects of scaffolding and web concordancers on students' proofreading performance. The study addresses the following research questions: (1) How does a concordancer search enhance students' proofreading performance? (2) How does scaffolding for concordancer searches enhance students' proofreading performance?…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries