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Cope, Jen – AILA Review, 2020
This paper examines how quotations are linguistically constructed by expert contributors in US, UK, and Australian opinion texts, vis-à-vis their form, function, and processes. Cope's (2016) study found that authoritative expert contributors integrated a considerable number of quotations on blame and responsibility for the global financial crisis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Verbs, Authors
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Cargill, Margaret; Smernik, Ronald – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Few systematic efforts have been reported to develop higher degree by research student skills for writing publishable articles in science and technology fields. There is a need to address this lack in the light of the current importance of publication to science research students and the high supervisor workload entailed in repeated draft…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Writing Instruction, Writing for Publication, Science Education
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de Bot, Kees – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Data are presented on some aspects of metalinguistic awareness in Dutch adults who emigrated to Australia at least 25 years ago. The findings show that the migrants do not differ significantly from a control group in the Netherlands, suggesting that first-language metalinguistic skills are extremely resistant to attrition. (Contains nine…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries
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Eggington, William – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
A discussion of language policy formation and planning in Australia covers the following: the development of the national policy on languages, and the Australian Language and Literacy Policy and its four goals related to English language and literacy, languages other than English, aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Applied Linguistics, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
Ingram, D. E. – 1987
A discussion of language policy making and its place in a nation's economic and social development uses Australia's experience as a case study. In particular, it reviews the factors such as multiculturalism and international relations that have led to the development of a national language policy, and examines the interim documents and the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Correlation, Economic Development, Educational Assessment