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Subramaniam, Radika; Kaur, Sheena – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2023
Literature survey concerning the Learner Corpus Research (LCR) in the last 20 years has shown a paucity of studies involving specialised/discipline-specific text. Since the use of discipline-specific academic writing learner corpora is useful in determining the language pattern within the English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) context, this…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Peng, Yao; Azmi, Nur Amalia Athifah Binti – English Language Teaching, 2022
An increasing body of scholars have investigated noun phrase complexity in L2 English writing from varied perspectives, but few of them focus on the differences of the English writing produced by EFLs and ESLs. Thus, the study explored how three international postgraduates from China and three local Malaysian postgraduates in a top university of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Native Language
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Jomaa, Nayef Jomaa; Alia, Mohammad M. – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Stance in general and metadiscourse markers, in particular, have attracted the interest of several studies. Therefore, this study explores the use of metadiscourse in the second language (L2) academic writing by English as a foreign language (EFL) postgraduates in one of the Malaysian public universities. We analyzed the frequency and wordings of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Academic Purposes, Linguistics