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Lan, Ge – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since the 1990s, grammatical complexity is a topic that has received considerable attention in various fields of applied linguistics, such as English for academic purposes, second language acquisition, language testing, and second language writing (Bulte & Housen, 2012). Many scholars in applied linguistics have recently argued that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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)
Gressang, Jane E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Second language (L2) learners notoriously have trouble using articles in their target languages (e.g., "a", "an", "the" in English). However, researchers disagree about the patterns and causes of these errors. Past studies have found that L2 English learners: (1) Predominantly omit articles (White 2003, Robertson 2000), (2) Overuse "the" (Huebner…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Morphemes, Second Language Learning