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Download full textFerguson, Gibson; Maclean, Joan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1991
This study is the first stage of a wider enquiry into alternative ways of assessing the readability of specialist texts. The interest in assessing these texts arose from the need to grade 60 medical journal articles for an individualized English-as-a-Foreign-Language reading scheme for doctors. The study reports on an investigation of subjective…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability
Lynch, Tony; Maclean, Joan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 2003
This study investigated the effects of teacher feedback on changes in the spoken language performance of a group of advanced learners of English in the Netherlands. Participants were medical researchers attending a course entitled English for Medical Congresses. The course included a sequence of speaking tasks and culminated in a conference. Tasks…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Error Correction, Feedback
Anderson, Kenneth; Maclean, Joan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997
A study investigated the usefulness of instructional materials on the writing of scientific articles by comparing the descriptions of abstracts offered in the textbook with a sample of abstracts drawn from four fields of medicine (clinical medicine, surgery, epidemiology, basic sciences). The comparison was confined to abstracts of results-focused…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Epidemiology, Foreign Countries
