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Kai Bao; Meihua Liu – SAGE Open, 2023
This article compared three-word move-specific lexical bundles (MLBs) in dissertation abstracts authored by linguistics doctoral students from China and the United States. Two separate corpora were constructed for analysis: (1) The China Linguistics PhD Abstracts Corpus (CLC), consisting of 700 abstracts totaling 613,713 words generated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Lexicology, Text Structure
Shi Pu; Hao Xu – Language and Education, 2024
While research on postgraduate thesis writing has investigated how students cope with institutional assessment criteria, this study explores how students form their own criteria for self-assessment through the writing process, aiming to account for the development of their independent thinking in academic socialisation. Based on in-depth…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Theses, Writing (Composition), Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Bingbing Yan; Chixiang Ma; Mingfei Wang; Ana Isabel Molina – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
With the emergence of short video and the development of mobile internet, short video software, such as TikTok and Kwai, has emerged. Based on the semantic understanding technology of teaching short videos, a teaching management platform was built to push healthy and positive short video for students' content in a targeted way. Taking the 21st…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Semantics, Visual Aids, Data
Chen-Chen Liu; Yu Guo; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Yun-Fang Tu; Zhiqiang Wang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Reading comprehension is critical and challenging for the English learning process. EFL (English as Foreign Language) learners often do not understand the meaning of the text due to the lack of an authentic learning context. This easily leads learners to read literally without deeply understanding. To address this issue, an article-structure…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Xie, Shaoliang – SAGE Open, 2020
This article investigated the English research article (RA) titles across different disciplines and cultures. To this end, 600 RA titles in the Chinese context and 600 RA titles in the international context were collected from six disciplines, which are grouped as social and natural sciences. The frequency of title types, their subtypes, and title…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Reports, Journal Articles, Social Sciences
Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Zhang, Dongbing – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The present study examines the ways Chinese high school EFL learners organize information in their writing. A class of 50 students at grade 9 from a local high school in Guangzhou, China, were recruited as participants. The students' writing at grade 9 was collected as a corpus, comprising ten writing tasks from different text types. In order to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
He, Mei; Pramoolsook, Issra – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
Thesis defense presentation slides (TDPS) are a significant and unique genre in the final ritual of master's students' learning journey. However, few studies have explored this genre, especially its rhetorical structure, so students have scant knowledge of it. This study investigates the moves and steps of this genre focusing on their Introduction…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Applied Linguistics, Graduate Students, Asians
Cheng, Rong – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether teaching students about the structure of a text would be associated with improved reading comprehension. Science texts were used with the intention of adding to what is known about content-area reading comprehension. To investigate the effects of teaching science text structure, a reading…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Text Structure, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Zhang, Meixiu – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Despite previous research suggesting that first language (L1) use fulfills important functions in collaborative writing (CW) tasks, research has yet to examine whether L1 or second language (L2) use may lead to variation in the lexico-grammatical aspects of learners' collaborative texts and the pair talk. Using a corpus-based approach, this study…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
Xu, Zhihong; Wijekumar, Kausalai; Lin, Shuqiong; Yang, Xinyuan; Nan, Bo – Reading Psychology, 2022
The difficulties with developing high-order reading comprehension skills negatively impact academic success across fields. The current study investigated whether the text structure strategy instruction, delivered through the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) to adult English learners as a foreign language (EFL), can improve reading…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shi, Bibing; Huang, Liyan; Lu, Xiaofei – Language Testing, 2020
The continuation task, a new form of reading-writing integrated task in which test-takers read an incomplete story and then write the continuation and ending of the story, has been increasingly used in writing assessment, especially in China. However, language-test developers' understanding of the effects of important task-related factors on…
Descriptors: Cues, Writing Tests, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language)
Shen, Yuru – English Language Teaching, 2017
English writing is one of the four indispensable skills that English learners need to master, but unfortunately, many Chinese college students have much difficulty composing clear, concise and coherent essays although they have studied English for at least over six years. To address the problem, the researchers and teachers in China have tried…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Writing Strategies, College Students
Xie, Jianping – English Language Teaching, 2017
The ultimate communicative purpose of literature reviews is to convince the reader of the worthiness of the writer's research, which is realized stage by stage and evaluation plays an important role in achieving this end. However, concerns about evaluation demonstration in novice academic writers' literature reviews have been repeatedly voiced in…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Masters Theses, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs
Huang, Shiying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The issue of voice has received considerable critical attention in second language writing (SLW) in the past decades. This study intends to enrich the research of voice in the Chinese context, which may mirror some issues in EFL environments. The short story writing process of an English-major undergraduate was particularly analyzed in this study,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
A Metafunctional Analysis of the News "ROK, DPRK Agree to Defuse Tension after Talks" on China Daily
Xu, Bo – English Language Teaching, 2015
On the basis of the three metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL): experiential, interpersonal and textual, the paper makes an analysis of the current news "ROK, DPRK Agree to Defuse Tension after Talks" on China Daily. The paper finds out that the political news has unique features in terms of experiential, interpersonal…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Accuracy, Experiential Learning, Interpersonal Competence
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