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Zare-ee, Abbas; Hejazi, S. Yahya – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Acknowledgement appears at the forefront of the high-stakes academic genre of thesis/dissertation writing. Previous research shows the generic structure of acknowledgements written by native Persian postgraduate students contains a 'thanking-God move', absent in native English speakers' acknowledgements. In an approximate replication of Hyland's…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, English, Indo European Languages
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Chang, Ching-Fen; Kuo, Chih-Hua – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
There has been increasing interest in the possible applications of corpora to both linguistic research and pedagogy. This study takes a corpus-based, genre-analytic approach to discipline-specific materials development. Combining corpus analysis with genre analysis makes it possible to develop teaching materials that are not only authentic but…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Graduate Students, Writing (Composition), Language Research