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Adel, Annelie; Erman, Britt – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
In order for discourse to be considered idiomatic, it needs to exhibit features like fluency and pragmatically appropriate language use. Advances in corpus linguistics make it possible to examine idiomaticity from the perspective of recurrent word combinations. One approach to capture such word combinations is by the automatic retrieval of lexical…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse
Nguyen, Hai; Miller, Jennifer – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
This article presents selective findings from an ongoing study that investigates rhetorical differences in business letter writing between Vietnamese students taking an English for Specific Purposes course in Vietnam and business professionals. Rhetorical analyses are based on two corpora, namely, scenario (N = 20) and authentic business letters…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Business Communication, Vietnamese People, Rhetoric
Ghabanchi, Zargham; Ayoubi, Elham Sadat – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This study is an attempt to compare the effect of four reading conditions on incidental vocabulary learning and recall of intermediate EFL learners. A sample population of 120 Iranian intermediate students read two short passages in one of four reading conditions: 1) L1 Marginal Glosses (MG1--provision of L1 translations of unknown words), 2) L2…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Recall (Psychology)
Berninger, Virginia Wise – Principal, 2012
"If it's not tested, it doesn't get taught" is the prevailing belief that guides many educators' practice of only teaching skills that are addressed in the latest governing standards. Most states have now adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which don't cover handwriting or spelling. Consequently, some states and school districts have…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Computers, Teaching Methods
Vyatkina, Nina – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This study explores the development of multiple dimensions of linguistic complexity in the writing of beginning learners of German both as a group and as individuals. The data come from an annotated, longitudinal learner corpus. The development of lexicogrammatical complexity is explored at 2 intersections: (a) between cross-sectional trendlines…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Correlation, German
Nelson, Alexis – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Some teaching strategies grow out of the curricula educators inherit or develop through professional reading; others originate in the aromatic humus of their autobiographies. This article presents a proposal that has its origins in the latter. The author recognized that what delights her in prose or poetry is the figurative language a writer uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Basic Writing, Prose
McGinnis, Theresa Ann; Garcia, Andrea – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
In this article, we use narrative theory to analyze and discuss how one Salvadoran youth, Thomas, constructed three different yet overlapping narratives, including a digital story, on his family's movement across borders. We describe how each telling of his narratives is situated in time and space, where Thomas reveals his understandings of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Change Agents, Hispanic Americans, Freedom
Brisk, Maria Estela; Hodgson-Drysdale, Tracy; O'Connor, Cheryl – Journal of Education, 2011
This study examined the teaching of report writing in PreK-5 through the lens of systemic functional linguistics theory. Teachers were part of a university-public school collaboration that included professional development on teaching genres, text organization, and language features. Grounded in this knowledge, teachers explicitly taught report…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Reports
Iseni, Arburim – Language Testing in Asia, 2011
This study is the result of continuous four-year work in the field of noting and reviewing of errors in learning English. The object of this research were 50 students at the State University of Tetova who study English. In this work were studied errors made by students during tests, interviews, dictations, writing paragraphs and different essays.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kang, Hana – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Chinese writing is one of the most difficult challenges for Chinese learners whose first language writing system is alphabetic letters. Chinese teachers have incorporated computer-based writing into their teaching in the attempt to reduce the difficulties of writing in Chinese, with a particular emphasis on composing (as opposed to simply writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Test Results, Syntax, Written Language
Borgese, Jolene; Heyler, Dick; Romano, Stephanie – Corwin, 2011
For many secondary students, writing effectively is the most elusive of the critical literacy skills needed for college and career readiness. And for many teachers, revision is the most difficult part of the writing process to tackle. How can adolescent writers be guided to revisit their work, to identify the weaknesses in their writing drafts,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Writing Processes, Writing Workshops, Literacy
Partridge, Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
From word processing computers, to mobile telephones, to the advent of the Internet, and finally to online communication venues like Instant Messenger (IM), the past four decades have brought an increasing prevalence of technology into our culture that is altering the English language. While decried by parents and lamented by teachers, these…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Internet, Word Processing, Educational Resources
Volpe, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Attrition is a major issue facing nearly all institutions of higher learning. The loss of students affects colleges and universities on many levels and can have a negative impact on students. Community colleges often experience greater attrition than other types of institutions and have an increased need to curb the outflow of students. This study…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, At Risk Students, Writing (Composition)
Chang, Chih-Ning Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and analyze how the graduate course: "Writing, Reading and Teaching Poetry" influenced American and international students' writing, thinking, response to poetry, teaching beliefs and English learning through their participating in the class activities. In this study, I examine the…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Students, Attitude Change
Reed, Jolene B. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This participant observation research study explored relationships between the role of guided reading and in-school writing of three proficient first-grade literacy learners during the first eight months of the 2007-08 school-year. Portraits of each student as a literacy learner were developed through case studies. Those individual case studies…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Reading Instruction, Small Group Instruction