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Direct linkHincks, Rebecca – English for Specific Purposes, 2010
This paper quantifies differences in speaking rates in a first and second language, and examines the effects of slower rates on the speakers' abilities to convey information. The participants were 14 fluent (CEF B2/C1) English L2 speakers who held the same oral presentation twice, once in English and once in their native Swedish. The temporal…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Lung, Jane – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
This paper investigates the differences in the discursive patterning of cases in Law and Management. It examines a corpus of 271 Law and Management cases and discusses the kind of information that these two disciplines call for and how discourses are constructed in discursive hierarchical patterns. A discursive hierarchical pattern is a model…
Descriptors: Administration, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Court Litigation
Hancioglu, Nilgun; Neufeld, Steven; Eldridge, John – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
This article describes two complementary research projects into lexical patterning and frequency in general and academic English. The research suggests that treating current popularly used wordlists such as the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic Word List (AWL) as distinct constructs is of questionable merit. Rather, there are strong…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Academic Discourse
