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Cook, Guy – Language Teaching, 2010
At a time of diminishing resources, the sum of apparently minor personal decisions about food can have immense impact. These individual choices are heavily influenced by language, as those with vested interests seek to persuade individuals to act in certain ways. This makes the language of food politics a fitting area for an expanding applied…
Descriptors: Democracy, Applied Linguistics, Public Policy, Decision Making
Larson-Hall, Jenifer; Herrington, Richard – Applied Linguistics, 2010
In this article we introduce language acquisition researchers to two broad areas of applied statistics that can improve the way data are analyzed. First we argue that visual summaries of information are as vital as numerical ones, and suggest ways to improve them. Specifically, we recommend choosing boxplots over barplots and adding locally…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Second Language Learning
Despagne, Colette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This critical ethnographic case study draws on Indigenous and minority students' process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Mexico. The study specifically focuses on students who enrolled in a program called "A Wager with the Future." The aim of the study is to identify and understand contributing factors in these…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Mexicans, English (Second Language), Power Structure
Amnuai, Wirada; Wannaruk, Anchalee – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study investigates the rhetorical move structure of English applied linguistic research article Discussions published in Thai and international journals. Two corpora comprising of 30 Thai Discussions and 30 international Discussions were analyzed using Yang & Allison's (2003) move model. Based on the analysis, both similarities and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Floris, Flora Debora – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2013
Masaki Oda is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Use. Prof. Oda got his PhD program from Georgetown University, where he also taught Japanese for several years. He returned to Japan in 1990 and began teaching EFL and training EFL teachers at Tamagawa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Khani, Reza; Tazik, Khalil – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
Academic vocabulary, as the most challenging aspect of language learning in EAP and ESP contexts, has received much attention in the last few decades (e.g. Laufer, 1988; Sutarsyah, et al., 1994; Laufer and Nation, 1999; Coxhead, 2000; Nation, 2001a, 2001b; Wang et al., 2008; Martinez et al., 2009). The major attainments of these studies were…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Academic Discourse, Word Frequency
Stanley, Phiona; Murray, Neil – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
There is no standard via which to measure the "qualified" English language teacher in a way that is meaningful to institutions seeking to employ teaching staff. This is significant given that candidates may differ markedly in their language competence, knowledge about language, methodological skills and ability to explain and justify their praxis…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Teacher Qualifications, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Golpour, Farhad – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2012
In recent years, genre studies have attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of the present study was to observe the differences in generic structure of doctoral dissertation acknowledgements texts written by English native and non-native (Chinese) PhD students. To this end, thirty native English students' acknowledgement texts and the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lin, Phoebe M. S. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
With the ever increasing number of studies on formulaic language, we are beginning to learn more about the processing of formulaic language (e.g. Ellis et al. 2008; Siyanova et al. 2011), its use in speech (e.g. Aijmer 1996; Wood 2012) and writing (e.g. Hyland 2008a, 2008b) and its application in natural language processing (e.g. Tschichold 2000).…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Memory
Ringbom, Hakan – Language Teaching, 2012
This review covers recent applied linguistic research in Finland and Sweden during the years 2006-2011, with particular emphasis on foreign language learning and teaching. Its primary aim is to inform the international research community on the type of research that is going on in these countries. Special attention is given to topics which have…
Descriptors: Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Querol-Julian, Mercedes; Fortanet-Gomez, Inmaculada – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Evaluation in academic discourse has received considerable attention from researchers. Much of the work on evaluation has focused, however, on written genres, and less attention has been paid to how evaluation unfolds in spoken academic genres. In our present research, we are interested in disclosing how the interpersonal meaning of evaluation is…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, English for Academic Purposes
Alkhaldi, Ali Ata – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2010
Published language materials are widely used around the world, but many Foreign Language (FL) and/or Second Language (SL) learners still fail to develop their communicative competence satisfactorily and they are still not happy with their language materials. Materials design has recently been characterized by two important developments: first,…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Material Development, English (Second Language)
Ogeyik, Muhlise Cosgun – Online Submission, 2010
Linguistic courses in ELT (English Language Teaching) departments, in some ways, may create obstacles due to their firm theoretical framework. Therefore, this study is concerned with the main problems for the students taking linguistic courses in ELT Department at Trakya University in Turkey. The purpose of the study is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English
Holme, Randal – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
Construction grammars (Lakoff, Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the Mind, University of Chicago Press, 1987; Langacker, Foundations of cognitive grammar: Theoretical pre-requisites, Stanford University Press, 1987; Croft, Radical construction grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective, Oxford University…
Descriptors: Grammar, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory
Woodin, Jane – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
The issue of cultural categorisation causes difficulties for teachers and learners of intercultural communication as it can easily lead to stereotyping. Within applied linguistics cultural categorisation is hard to avoid; the large number of cross-cultural studies of languages and language use bear witness to this. Categorisation itself is a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intercultural Communication, Semantics, Applied Linguistics