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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Students majoring in translation at the College of Languages and Translation take a stylistics course (3 hours per week) in the 5th semester of the translation program. The course aims to introduce students to the stylistic features of different genres in English such as journalese, advertisements, commercial, scientific, and legal texts. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners, Language Styles, Writing (Composition)
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Li, Haiying; Graesser, Arthur C. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
This study investigated how computer agents' language style affects summary writing in an Intelligent Tutoring System, called CSAL AutoTutor. Participants interacted with two computer agents in one of three language styles: (1) a "formal" language style, (2) an "informal" language style, and (3) a "mixed" language…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Language Styles, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement
Li, Haiying; Graesser, Art C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study investigated how computer agents' language style affects summary writing in an Intelligent Tutoring System, called CSAL AutoTutor. Participants interacted with two computer agents in one of three language styles: (1) a "formal" language style; (2) an "informal" language style; and (3) a "mixed" language…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Language Styles, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement
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Techacharoenrungrueang, Suparak – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study aims to analyze positive remarks linguistically manifested through English intensifiers, i.e. very and so, and their collocates in café reviews. The appraisal framework primarily focuses on the feelings or attitudes of speakers or writers. It plays a part in providing communicative resources whereby speech functions are performed…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Computational Linguistics, Positive Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Mancilla, Rae L.; Polat, Nihat; Akcay, Ahmet O. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This manuscript reports on a corpus-based comparison of native and nonnative graduate students' language production in an asynchronous learning environment. Using 486 discussion board postings from a five-year period (2009-2013), we analyzed the extent to which native and nonnative university students' writing differed in 10 measures of syntactic…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language
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Bohát, Róbert; Rödlingová, Beata; Horáková, Nina – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Corpus of High School Academic Texts (COHAT), currently of 150,000+ words, aims to make academic language instruction a more data-driven and student-centered discovery learning as a special type of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), emphasizing students' critical thinking and metacognition. Since 2013, high school English as an additional…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Asencion-Delaney, Yuly; Collentine, Joseph – Applied Linguistics, 2011
The present study adds to our understanding of how learners employ lexical and grammatical phenomena to communicate in writing in different types of interlanguage discourse. A multidimensional (factor) analysis of a corpus of L2 Spanish writing (202,241 words) generated by second- and third-year, university-level learners was performed. The…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Spanish, Computational Linguistics
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Beers, Scott F.; Nagy, William E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined the relationship of different measures of syntactic complexity with rated quality for two genres of text produced by middle school students. It was hypothesized that different measures would be associated with distinct aspects of syntactic complexity; words per clause with greater use of structures more typical of expository…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Syntax, Essays, Grade 7
Harries, Lyndon – Swahili: Journal of the Institute of Swahili Research, 1967
The purpose of this article is to suggest that there are standards of style in Swahili which every writer, whatever his ethnic origin, should be expected to observe. The changing linguistic situation does not give to any writer freedom to write in Swahili without regard to established standards. There is such a thing as style in Swahili. Knowledge…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Styles, Literary Criticism, Swahili
Fry, Edward – 1982
"Writeability" is concerned with helping writers and editors produce materials on easier readability levels. A major input of most readability formulas is vocabulary difficulty. One way to increase readability is to use simple vocabulary or shorter words since word frequency studies show that more common words are shorter. The other…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Punctuation, Readability, Readability Formulas
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Nilsen, Don L. F. – College Composition and Communication, 1974
Implication, a crucial aspect of style, can be accurately considered only in reference to the whole context in which a verbal communication takes place. (JH)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Intonation, Language
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Mazza, Idolene; And Others – Central States Speech Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Styles
Friend, Jewell A. – TESOL Quart, 1969
"The purpose of this paper is to describe what appears to be a successful experiment in teaching levels of diction recently carried out in the freshman composition courses for EFL students at Southern Illinois University." (Author/FWB)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Diction, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Williams, Joseph M. – College English, 1979
The clearest writing style is one in which the grammatical structures of a sentence most redundantly support the perceived semantic structure; a textured style is one in which the syntactic complexity invests a sentence with distinctive force. (DD)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Styles
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Harley, John K. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1983
Poor writing style among academics, particulary those in the behavioral sciences, stems from a lack of linguistic sophistication, the linguistic customs of academia, and the linguistic customs of the behavioral science disciplines. The article offers remedies for errors in each category. (SB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Educational Environment, Grammar, Language Standardization
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