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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"L2 Students"”.
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The role of the writing center in the writing practices of L2 students
… problems posed by a growing population of students for whom English is a second or other language (L2). L2 students are increasing in numbers on college campuses, bringing with them a host of language challenges, not always met in traditional classroom settings. For many L2 students, the …
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EFL TO ESL: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH L2 STUDENTS IN TRANSITION
… is a case study of four international English L2 students transitioning from their home countries into the academic context of a US university. It investigates the intersections of identity and investment as English L2 students interact with English resources, and how proficiency may or may not …
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EXPLORING PERCEIVED COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN UPPER-LEVEL L1 AND L2 INTERACTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
… context. I specifically look at how upper-level L2 students (second language learners) identify their needs and negotiate miscommunications and preconceived notions of L2 learners in various communicative events in the process of developing communicative competence (Canale & Swain, 1980; Hymes, …
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Collaborative and Genre-Based Writing in the L2 Writing Classroom
<p>In the field of second language writing, L2 students should be empowered to express their personal voice in writing. Often, students are encouraged to adopt an academic voice, which discourages personal voice and often ignores prior knowledge. This field project intends to use collaborative …
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Researching Plagiarism and Technology in Second Language Writing: “Becomings”
… empirical study on how second language (L2) writers in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program engage with technology in their academic writing, and how plagiarism may, or may not, relate to this process. As such, the research objectives of this study can be understood as: 1) to …
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A Feminist Approach to Understanding ESL Identity Development: A Case Study of Korean Women in U.S. Universities
… and approaches to identity construction within L2 contexts often fail or underemphasize the important roles that strategic identity and discursive-place identity play in second language acquisition processes. This study explores how education, English discourse, and American cultures affect the …
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Attitudes toward ESL use of corpora in second language writing courses and its effects on error-correction identification and learning by L2 learners of English
… paid to whether or not grammar correction in the L2 classroom is effective and to what extent, the current consensus is still that efforts go unpaid and unnoticed. This research has two goals through the uses of empirical data: (1) To show if the use of error-corrective symbols and online corpora …
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Complexities and Dynamics of Korean Graduate Students' Textual Borrowing in Academic Writing
… quotes and paraphrases. Second language (L2) English students are likely to use sources inappropriately and consequentially are accused of plagiarism based on a moral judgment. A body of research on textual borrowing including this study has provided strong evidence that these students' …
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Peer feedback in an integrated, process-oriented ESL writing placement test
… relatively few studies took interest in what L2 students actually do during a peer review. Moreover, there has been a growing awareness of and interest in paired and group oral assessment, especially in examining interactional competence during paired speaking tests; however, to date not much …
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Teacher Training in Linguistic Diversity within Inclusive Education: Cooperation between Non-governmental Non-profit Organizations and Educational Institutions. Situation in Three European Countries
Esta tesis examina la colaboración entre las las organizaciones no gubernamentales sin ánimo de lucro centradas en los alumnos con una lengua materna diferente y los centros escolares de tres zonas geográficas europeas: República Checa, Italia y España. Responde a tres preguntas de investigación: …
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I'LL TALK, YOU LISTEN: WRITING CENTER TUTORS READING ALOUD IN SESSIONS WITH L2 TUTEES
… change and more and more international students and second language users utilize writing centers, our long-held notions of meaningful interaction have been called into question as tutors struggle to reckon the needs of students with the implicit demands of their field. Using data taken …