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Sinclair, Christine – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study brings together three student comments and three theoretical constructs taken from Bakhtin's (1981) collection of essays "The Dialogic Imagination", written in the 1930s. Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope, interanimation and the monologic provide lenses on a shifting student perspective on authoritative writing in…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes, Essays
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Sanjaya, I. Nyoman Suka; Sitawati, Anak Agung Raka; Suciani, Ni Ketut – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2015
The study examines whether English and Indonesian research articles written by their respective native speaker scholars are significantly different from each other in terms of the number of hedges used. Hedges are rhetorical features (e.g. "may", "perhaps", "suggest") used to withhold complete commitment to the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning