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Mirzapour, Fatemeh; Ahmadi, Maryam – English Language Teaching, 2011
The present study aims to analyze comparatively English and Persian research articles (Linguistics, Literature, and Library and Information disciplines) in terms of number and degree of utilization of sub-types of lexical cohesion in order to appreciate textualization processes in the two languages concerned. The study analyzes 60 research…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, English
Elmgrab, Ramadan Ahmed – Journal of Educational Issues, 2015
Many Western scholars such as Dryden show little interest in imitations, and express their preference for translations, i.e. paraphrases that are faithful to the sense of the source text. However, they consider imitations as a viable category of translation. It is the degree of freedom, or departure from the original, that differentiates a…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students
Murphy, Carol – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
As part of an intervention project to encourage exploratory talk with young children in mathematics, it was found that, although the children did not engage fully in reasoning, the intervention had supported some children in developing more cohesive discourse. The cohesion was evidenced through the children's use of deictic words, in particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Mathematics, Interpersonal Communication
Groen, Martin; Noyes, Jan – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Communicating via text-only computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels is associated with a number of issues that would impair users in achieving dialogue coherence and goals. It has been suggested that humans have devised novel adaptive strategies to deal with those issues. However, it could be that humans rely on "classic"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Goal Orientation, Semantics
Walkinshaw, Ian; Milford, Todd; Freeman, Keri – SAGE Open, 2015
Responding to calls for research into measurable English language outcomes from individual language support consultations at universities, this study investigated the effect of individual consultations (ICs) on the academic writing skills and lexico-grammatical competence of students who speak English as an additional language (EAL). Attendance by…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English for Academic Purposes, Grammar, Vocabulary Skills
Singaravelu, G.; Paramasivam, M. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2016
The study examined the insight of English Teacher towards students of standard XI in acquiring communicative skill in English. The main objective of the paper was to identify the problems of the students in acquiring communicative skill in English. The Normative survey method was adopted in the study. One hundred teachers were considered as a…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Brown, James Dean, Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2012
Connected speech is based on a set of rules used to modify pronunciations so that words connect and flow more smoothly in natural speech (hafta versus have to). Native speakers of English tend to feel that connected speech is friendlier, more natural, more sympathetic, and more personal. Is there any reason why learners of English would prefer to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Connected Discourse, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
Kurczek, Jake; Duff, Melissa C. – Brain and Language, 2012
Discourse cohesion and coherence give communication its continuity providing the grammatical and lexical links that hold an utterance or text together and give it meaning. Researchers often link cohesion and coherence deficits to the frontal lobes by drawing attention to frontal lobe dysfunction in populations where discourse cohesion and…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Connected Discourse, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Grammar
Ruegg, Rachael; Sugiyama, Yuko – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
Whether foreign language writing is rated using analytic rating scales or holistically, the organization of ideas is invariably one of the aspects assessed. However, it is unclear what raters are sensitive to when rating writing for organization. Which do they value more highly, the physical aspects of organization, such as paragraphing and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Writing Tests
Ersanli, Ceylan Yangin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
This study reports on the insights from an EFL learner corpora (a total of 151 essays and 49,690 words) generated from essays collected over the years in a Turkish state university from freshmen students enrolling in the Advanced Writing course. The comparison of cohesive devices in the non-native corpus (NNC) with those in a native corpus (NC)…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Li, Hang; He, Lianzhen – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2015
This study used think-aloud protocols to compare essay-rating processes across holistic and analytic rating scales in the context of China's College English Test Band 6 (CET-6). A group of 9 experienced CET-6 raters scored the same batch of 10 CET-6 essays produced in an operational CET-6 administration twice, using both the CET-6 holistic…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Classification
Mäkinen, Leena; Loukusa, Soile; Nieminen, Lea; Leinonen, Eeva; Kunnari, Sari – First Language, 2014
This study focuses on the development of narrative structure and the relationship between narrative productivity and event content. A total of 172 Finnish children aged between four and eight participated. Their picture-elicited narrations were analysed for productivity, syntactic complexity, referential cohesion and event content. Each measure…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Finno Ugric Languages, Multiple Regression Analysis
Jones, Nancy Elizabeth – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study examined how children and adolescents with Williams syndrome (WS; ages 8 years, 0 months [8;0]-14;5) used referential devices (determiners and pronouns), tense, and connectives to create cohesion in oral narratives based on a storybook compared to typically developing mentally and chronologically age-matched children. WS children used…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Genetic Disorders, Mental Retardation, Children
Skoruppa, Katrin; Mani, Nivedita; Peperkamp, Sharon – Child Development, 2013
Using a picture pointing task, this study examines toddlers' processing of phonological alternations that trigger sound changes in connected speech. Three experiments investigate whether 2;5- to 3-year-old children take into account assimilations--processes by which phonological features of one sound spread to adjacent sounds--for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Toddlers, Language Processing, Phonology
Liu, Ming; Li, Yi; Xu, Weiwei; Liu, Li – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Writing an essay is a very important skill for students to master, but a difficult task for them to overcome. It is particularly true for English as Second Language (ESL) students in China. It would be very useful if students could receive timely and effective feedback about their writing. Automatic essay feedback generation is a challenging task,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)