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Walkinshaw, Ian; Milford, Todd; Freeman, Keri – SAGE Open, 2015
Responding to calls for research into measurable English language outcomes from individual language support consultations at universities, this study investigated the effect of individual consultations (ICs) on the academic writing skills and lexico-grammatical competence of students who speak English as an additional language (EAL). Attendance by…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English for Academic Purposes, Grammar, Vocabulary Skills
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Love, Kristina; Sandiford, Carmel; Macken-Horarik, Mary; Unsworth, Len – English in Australia, 2014
We report in this paper on one aspect of a project designed to support teachers with the demands of the Language strand of the Australian Curriculum for English as this guides their development of a coherent account of knowledge about language and their implementation of this in building their students' literacy repertoires. We map the changing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, English Teachers
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Kim, Sun Hee Ok – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This paper explores how learner background shapes learner performance on discourse features in writing by analysing data produced as part of the Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education project (Scarino et al., 2011) by Year 10 (mid-secondary school) students learning Korean as a foreign or heritage language. Five participants were in…
Descriptors: Syntax, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Community Schools