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Mobile-assisted focus on forms in English for academic purposes instruction: Investigating the impacts on learning academic words

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Focus on forms (FonFs) is a pedagogical approach in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) that emphasizes students’ conscious and direct attention to learning target language features in isolation and outside their meaningful context.
Ismail Xodabande, Tahereh Boroughani
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Mobile-assisted academic vocabulary learning

open access: yes, 2020
English for academic purposes (EAP) students need to increase their academic vocabulary knowledge for their academic success. This activity provides EAP students with formal and informal mobile-assisted language learning opportunities to learn selected ...
Son, Jeong-Bae
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LEXICAL ERRORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACADEMIC WRITING

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2023
                                                              The main focus of error analysis, a branch of applied linguistics, is investigating and studying errors that are made by second language (L2) learners.
Astghik Chubaryan, Mariam Vardanyan
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Academic Vocabulary and Reading Fluency: Unlikely Bedfellows in the Quest for Textual Meaning

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2018
Academic vocabulary is the specialized language used to communicate within academic settings. The Coxhead (2000) taxonomy is one such list that identifies 570 headwords representing academic vocabulary.
David D. Paige, Grant S. Smith
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Cognitive and Affective Aspects of SMS based Learning at the University Level [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Education, 2014
Mobile learning delivery platforms include cell phone based SMS technologies that provide access to learning materials without being limited by space or time. Sophisticated technological advances in the domain of pedagogical delivery have led to flexible,
Yaacov J Katz
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Academic vocabulary in an English for Academic Purposes course

open access: yesLinguistic Proceedings Series, 2020
Academic vocabulary instruction can be beneficial to students in EMI universities since academic vocabulary knowledge predicts performance in academic tasks. With the aim to inform EAP materials design, this study examines the occurrence and repetition of high-frequency academic vocabulary in the printed teaching materials used in a presessional EAP ...
Sophia Skoufaki, Bojana Petrić
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Academic word list and CEFR levels: Profiling academic vocabulary in a technical university learner corpus [PDF]

open access: yes
This study investigates the vocabulary profile in argumentative essays written by students from different disciplines at a technical university in Malaysia.
Abdul Bareed, Nurhidayah   +2 more
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Development of academic vocabulary knowledge during English-medium instruction

open access: yesIbérica
In many contexts of English-medium instruction (EMI), the development of English language proficiency is an often-hoped-for outcome. Existing EMI research measuring English proficiency development reports gains in specific areas of English but not others.
Hans Malmström   +2 more
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Elevated Connectivity During Language Processing Is Associated With Cognitive Performance in SeLECTS

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Self‐Limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) is associated with language impairments despite seizures originating in the motor cortex, suggesting aberrant cross‐network interactions. Here we tested whether functional connectivity in SeLECTS during language tasks predicts language performance.
Wendy Qi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic vocabulary for L2 argumentative writing: Perspectives from Chinese university EFL learners

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education
Academic vocabulary plays a critical role in L2 argumentative writing. Recent studies have specifically examined the importance of academic vocabulary and academic word lists for EAP and ESP learning and research.
Changyong Min, Apisak Sukying
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