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Andrew Potter; Mitchell Shortt; Maria Goldshtein; Rod D. Roscoe – Grantee Submission, 2025
Broadly defined, academic language (AL) is a set of lexical-grammatical norms and registers commonly used in educational and academic discourse. Mastery of academic language in writing is an important aspect of writing instruction and assessment. The purpose of this study was to use Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Natural Language Processing, Grammar, Vocabulary Skills
Yi-Ju Wu; Hui-Chin Yeh – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
This empirical investigation rigorously evaluated the teaching potential of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) for enhancing the ability of learners to apply 30 near-synonymous change-of-state verbs in two EFL Freshman English courses in a college setting across two semesters. In the study, 32 participants in the experimental group and 22 in the control…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, North American English
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)
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)
Flowerdew, Lynne – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This short article reviews key corpus-based pedagogic initiatives in the spirit of the Swalesian tradition of genre analysis. Pedagogic genres covered include report writing, thesis writing, writing a grant proposal and legal essay writing. More recently, attention has been paid to the writing of research articles by postgraduate students for whom…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Computational Linguistics
Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Tirote Thongnuan; Pong-ampai Kongcharoen – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This true longitudinal study explored the lexical development of L2 university English major students in Thailand using two learner corpora. This study analyzed the natural learners' English language writing assignments from two writing courses and tracked their lexical development over a relatively long period (three years with five batches of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ashofteh, Zahra; Shirvan, Majid Elahi; Golparvar, Seyyed Ehsan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
To communicate with other experts in a specific field as well as sharing knowledge in the academic world, researchers might need to publish their research articles (RAs) in high-impact factor journals. In addition, to increase the possibility of publishing their RAs in these journals, they should improve their writing skills. Many investigations…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Discourse Analysis, Periodicals, Journal Articles
Kun Dai; Ian Hardy; Yuxiao Jiang – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
An increasing number of international students pursue doctoral studies in China, a non-traditional learning destination compared with English-dominated Western countries. Despite considerable research on the challenges doctoral students face when writing theses in English in Western countries, relatively few studies have explored comparable issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Writing (Composition)
Therova, Dana – TESL-EJ, 2023
Since written assignments often constitute the main form of assessment in tertiary education, academic writing skills are of paramount importance to university students. The role of academic writing in turn emphasises two aspects vital for successful written production at universities: genre awareness as students are assessed on the production of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods
Lu, Xiaofei; Casal, J. Elliott; Liu, Yingying – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This paper outlines the research agenda of a framework that integrates corpus- and genre-based approaches to academic writing research and pedagogy. This framework posits two primary goals of academic writing pedagogy, that is, to help novice writers develop knowledge of the rhetorical functions characteristic of academic discourse and become…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Research, Computational Linguistics, Decision Making
Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Tulay Orucu Dixon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Standards of academic writing are documented in style guides adopted by academic disciplines, style guides such as the "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and Scientific Style and Format." Some of the standards in these style guides are expressed as prescriptive or proscriptive rules that provide academic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Classification, Academic Standards, Writing (Composition)
Mary Davis; John Morley – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
This study is about student writers' development of their own approaches to using formulaic phrases from a compendium (Academic Phrasebank). While the essential role of formulaic phrases in academic texts has been well established in research, teaching about the effective use of these phrases is not widely available, and little attention has been…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Language, English, Undergraduate Students
Affef Ghai; Sharif Alghazo – Open Education Studies, 2024
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Arabic, English
Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2023
Source-based writing is a complex and frequently occurring task type in postsecondary education. While a large body of research now exists investigating source-based student writing, few studies have used corpus-based methods to investigate L1 student performance on source-based writing tasks and to connect this performance to the holistic quality…
Descriptors: Native Language, Computational Linguistics, Writing Instruction, Information Sources