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Nagao, Akiko – International Education Studies, 2017
This study examined the progress of English as a foreign language (EFL) writers using the instructional framework of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and the communities of practice (CoPs) model. The study participants comprised 11 first-year undergraduate students in Japan with intermediate-level English proficiency who were exposed to SFL…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Functional Literacy, English (Second Language), Communities of Practice
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Jafarian, Tahereh; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib; Jamalinesari, Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Publication of research articles (RAs) in English seems a challenging task for native and non-native writers. The acquisition of rhetorical structure and function grammar can be very helpful for academicians to achieve the wanted goal which is, of course, the publication of their RAs. This study aims to investigate the current level of familiarity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Familiarity, Rhetoric, Graduate Students