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Hernandez, Hjalmar Punla; Genuino, Cecilia F. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Grammatical compression and implicitness have been proven as characteristics of academic writing (Biber & Gray, 2010, 2016), but they are an underexplored area of research particularly in academic ESL (English as a second language) writing. In this study, we explored the dependent phrases that most and least characterize academic ESL writing…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Tarrayo, Veronico N. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper looked into the interplay between language and culture based on the metatext categories utilized by the writers in three speech communities: Philippines, Iran, and Taiwan. Specifically, it answered the following subproblems: (1) What metatext categories exist in the results-and-discussion section of ESL/EFL research articles written in…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning