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Pong-ampai Kongcharoen; Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Intira Bumrungsalee – rEFLections, 2025
In recent years, there has been a growing trend of using informal styles in academic writing, including research articles. To examine the degree of formality in students' writing, this corpus-based study aimed to analyze the formal linguistic features in the academic writing assignments of English-major students at a Thai university. The learner…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Essays, Majors (Students), English (Second Language)
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Öztürk, Yusuf; Tasçi, Samet – rEFLections, 2023
This study was conducted to examine the lexical bundles used by nonnative speakers of English and explore any potential L1 influence on L2 lexical bundle use. Following a corpus-based approach, the frequency and types of English four-word lexical bundles in the postgraduate academic writing of Turkish and American students were analyzed, and the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Loo, Daron Benjamin – rEFLections, 2020
This study examines the support for developing graduate students' language awareness in academic writing drafts through the provision of grammar lessons and feedback -- indirect and metalinguistic. The study was conducted in a basic academic writing module, offered to both masters' and PhD students (n=48) at a university in Singapore. To gauge…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Metalinguistics, Feedback (Response), Masters Programs
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Thirakunkovit, Suthathip; Boonyaprakob, Kornsiri – rEFLections, 2022
This mixed-methods study explored the students' learning from the task-based collaborative writing process (Ellis, 2003; Willis, 1996) and the effects of its process on their writing improvement in a compulsory academic writing course. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this course was conducted completely online. This 15-week course followed the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)