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Monroe, Will; Tanner, Susan; Conrad, Emily – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
This article replicates a prior study of student perceptions of captions in a specialized learning context to understand the extent to which captions are useful for students learning specialized vocabulary. It describes the results of a conceptual replication (Christensen et al., "Technology, Knowledge and Learning," 2021) of a…
Descriptors: Law Students, Captions, Knowledge Level, Vocabulary Development
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Soraya García-Sánchez – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This research explores intralinguistic communicative mediation in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) online journal writing to enhance professional development through the co-construction of meaning. It accentuates research gaps specific to learning English in the field of law under the approach of collaborative Computer Assisted Language…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries, Law Students, Graduate Students
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Boyle, Kaitlin M.; Culatta, Elizabeth; Turner, Jennifer L.; Sutton, Tara E. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2022
There is a proliferation of research on the effects of microaggressions among undergraduate students and in the workplace. However, scholars have not focused on biased interactions among graduate and law students, their capacity to create or exacerbate health inequities, and the types of support that might mitigate these effects. In two studies,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Law Students, Minority Group Students, Females
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Nasrollahi Shahri, Mohammad Naseh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
The study examines second language identities constructed in small stories around intercultural communication. It presents a detailed narrated-event and narrating-event analysis of small stories narrated by an Iranian user of English as a second language (ESL). The analysis suggests that small stories can become a site where second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Self Concept
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Chen, Che-Han – English Language Teaching, 2021
Although much research on English for specific purposes (ESP) has been conducted, little focus has been placed on investigating the mechanisms involved in ESP readers' comprehension process. This case study explored the reading process that characterizes a competent ESP reader's comprehension. A juris doctor student attending a major university in…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Case Studies, English for Special Purposes, Recall (Psychology)
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Peirone, Amy; Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
Academic entitlement, a term that defines students' expectations of academic success independent of performance, has been linked with a number of maladaptive behaviors. This study examined the potential relationship between academic entitlement and prospective workplace entitlement in a sample of Canadian students (N=1024) using an online survey.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Attainment, Correlation, Multivariate Analysis