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Shen, Ting – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite its importance of academic language, research on academic language is often limited to academic vocabulary and focused on the English language learners. Informed by systemic functional linguistics, this study examined adolescents' use of academic language and the relationships between its use and students' reading ability and their writing…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Usage, Essays, Writing (Composition)
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El Euch, Sonia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2007
Several researchers have suggested that definitional skill explains academic success/failure (Gagne, 2004; Snow, 1987). The words used to investigate definitional skill have all been concrete words given in the first language (L1) and/or the second language (L2) of the participants. This paper reports a study investigating the quality of the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Definitions, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure
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