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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"English academic writing"”.
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Impacts of cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric of academic writing in English and academic writing in students' L1s
… (CCCR) comparisons in graduate-level ESL Writing Service Courses at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Two 501-level classes were recruited to participate in this study: one class received CCCR instruction and participated in CCCR discussions, and the other class did not receive …
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Metadiscourse in the Academic Writing of EFL and ESL Arabic-Speaking Iraqi Graduate Students
… embodying the notion that the purpose of writing is not only informative; rather, it is a social act enhancing a writer-reader interaction and building effective communicative relationships, thereby creating a reader-friendly text. This thesis examines metadiscourse in L2 academic writing …
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A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing
Writing in English has never been an easy task to many second language (L2) learners. Many of them perform poorly in their English academic writing where numerous lexical and grammatical errors are found in their report. Therefore, this thesis investigates the difficulties faced by UTHM learners …
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Chinese ESL writers' uses of the causative verb structure make: a corpus-based investigation
… MAKE constructions extremely frequently in their English academic writing, and this phenomenon echoes other findings that MAKE is a commonly used verb that most ESL learners globally tend to overuse. Altenberg and Granger (2001) categorize MAKE constructions into eight basic types of uses. In …
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The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia
… students. There is a concern that students’ academic success relies heavily on their mastery of academic writing. How to improve international English as an Additional Language (EAL) students’ proficiency has been a cause of significant concern and debate among scholars and education …