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Yuehan Luo; Guangwei Hu – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Informed by basic psychological needs theory, this multi-case study explored four supervisors' feedback practices and their effects on Chinese English-major students' engagement with feedback on their undergraduate dissertations written in English. Data comprised interviews with students and supervisors, stimulated recalls with students, audio…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Theses, Supervisors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Mujiono; Riza Weganofa; Siane Herawati – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2023
Exploring academic writing readiness is fundamental for EFL learners, underscoring the importance of refined measurement methods in global research. This study aims to assess the academic writing readiness of EFL learners and highlight the progress in the specifically designed measurement instrument. The study employed Confirmatory Factor Analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Readiness
Shiping Duan; Zhiliang Shi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study investigates the use of formulaic sequences (FS) in academic writings of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language across different levels of studies at a public university in China. Frequency-based formulas were retrieved from a corpus of student academic texts written at five time points between Year 1 and Year 3. The…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Edsoulla Chung; Jonathan Newton – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Although teachers have access to a great deal of scholarship on teaching academic vocabulary (AV), much less is known about the experiences and perceptions of English language learners regarding AV. To address this gap, we used an online metaphor elicitation survey and follow-up interviews to collect data from 432 undergraduates at a Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Zahra Talebi – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
Writing is an important communicative language skill. It is an activity that requires a mental effort to "think out" the sentences and the ways of joining them to be meaningful and communicative. The present study was set up to the effectiveness of collaborative instruction on developing EFL students' writing ability and also to delve…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Undarmaa Maamuujav; Soobin Yum; Viet Vu – CATESOL Journal, 2024
Engaging second language (L2) students in multimodal academic writing that leverages multiple semiotic resources has the potential to foster their awareness of audience, purpose, and other rhetorical features. This case study explores L2 students' engagement in a multimodal digital storytelling (DST) project. The study reports on how DST was…
Descriptors: Asians, Second Language Learning, Academic Language, Writing Processes
Willem B. Hollmann; Kazuko Fujimoto; Masahiro Kuroda – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Modifying and hedging one's claims appropriately is an important characteristic of academic writing. This study focuses on the three main English modal verbs used to express "epistemic possibility" to avoid making strong statements, viz., "may", "might", and "could". The purpose of this corpus-based study is…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yang, Rong; Hu, Guangwei; Lei, Jun – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
This study explores Chinese English-major students' intertextual competence and factors shaping their ability to paraphrase in academic writing. Multiple instruments were employed to collect data from 212 English-major students at different academic levels from nine universities in mainland China. The data were analyzed to determine how a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Majors (Students), Academic Language
Mohammad M. Zeidan; Jessica Allred; Ruikun Zhao – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2023
Physics is an essential subject in most fields of Science and Engineering which cannot be mastered simply by watching lectures or solving problems at the end of each chapter: students must fully engage in solving these problems. This often requires problem visualisation, which presents quite a challenge for some, especially for students who are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhenhao Cao; Rachael Ruegg; Stephen Skalicky – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Although peer interaction has received attention in second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) research, the manner and quality of peer interaction have been less investigated. Previous studies usually examined peer interaction by looking at language-related episodes, overlooking the ways students negotiate for different types of knowledge…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
Võ Th? Di?m My; Nguy?n Van L?i – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This study examined Vietnamese English majors' competence and perception of academic collocations to determine the need for targeted instruction. The research aimed to identify specific challenges these learners face in learning and using academic collocations in their writing. Methods: The study involved 199 Vietnamese English…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Emma R. Britton; Theresa Y. Austin – Language Awareness, 2024
In multilingual instructional spaces, language use can reinforce or disrupt gender disparities. This self-study, situated in the context of a university developmental English writing course, examines how an instructor sought to raise L2 learners' critical language awareness, operationalized as consciousness of ways that gender disparity is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mujiono – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
The study examined the role of self-efficacy and self-regulated learning on the effect of self-directed learning on academic writing problem-solving for EFL undergraduates. The study applied a cross sectional design to evaluate 213 students from the Departments of English Education and English Literature of a private university in Malang,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Undergraduate Students, English Literature, English (Second 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)
Ruth Breeze; Hanne Roothooft; Marcel Meyer – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Learning to take effective notes is particularly difficult for non-English-native university students enrolled on English Medium Instruction (EMI) courses. However, time and cost constraints mean that many universities provide no support in English for academic purposes or academic skills. One solution to this problem would be to work closely with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Notetaking, Business Administration Education, Economics Education