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Nagao, Akiko – TESL-EJ, 2022
This mixed-methods study explored the effects of employing a genre-based approach (GBA) to descriptive report writing on the understanding of text structure and ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings among Japanese university students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) over a 15-week course divided into three units. Applied within a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Literary Genres, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chappel, Virginia A.; Rodby, Judith – 1982
The problems encountered by English as second language (ESL) students in selecting verb tenses for their written discourse were investigated. Tape recorded interviews with four freshman composition students who had been referred for intensive work on verb errors were analyzed for students' explanations of their errors and the contexts in which…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns