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Murray, Órla Meadhbh – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Institutional ethnography (IE) is a feminist approach to research focusing on the organising power of texts and language. This paper explores "how" to analyse texts in IE while considering the importance of reflexivity and accountability to feminist research. Based on a five year study of UK university audit processes, I developed a…
Descriptors: Feminism, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
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Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
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Bingbing Yan; Chixiang Ma; Mingfei Wang; Ana Isabel Molina – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
With the emergence of short video and the development of mobile internet, short video software, such as TikTok and Kwai, has emerged. Based on the semantic understanding technology of teaching short videos, a teaching management platform was built to push healthy and positive short video for students' content in a targeted way. Taking the 21st…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Semantics, Visual Aids, Data
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Gary Lieberman – Journal of Instructional Research, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) first made its entry into higher education in the form of paraphrasing tools. These tools were used to take passages that were copied from sources, and through various methods, disguised the original text to avoid academic integrity violations. At first, these tools were not very good and produced nearly…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Integrity, Ethics
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L. L. Aull – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article traces the history of college writing and suggests a different way ahead. To show why we need this approach, the article historicizes the start of postsecondary English as a paradoxical one, committed to egalitarian ideals while privileging narrow and exclusive English usage. To offer an alternative approach, the article synthesizes…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing (Composition), Postsecondary Education, English
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Freshman students learning English as foreign language have problems in comprehending English texts such as inability to identify main ideas, paragraph topics, supporting details and the organizational structure of a text. They have difficulty writing a summary or making an outline of the main ideas and important supporting details in a single, or…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction