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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Generic Structure Analysis of Arabic and English Response Letters to Complaints

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
Our study aims to examine the generic structure of responses letters to complaints in Arabic and English. A corpus of 80 letters was collected from Algerian Arabic users, EFL learners as well as American and British native speakers of English.
Noureddine Derki
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing General and Academic L2 Writing Complexity Through Dialogue Journal Writing: The Role of Learners' Motivational Beliefs

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Writing is crucial in tertiary education, yet enhancing the complexity of academic writing presents significant challenges for second language (L2) learners. This study explores the potential of dialogue journal writing (DJW), an interactive and low‐stress classroom activity, to enhance writing complexity among novice L2 writers.
Barry Lee Reynolds, Xiaoke Bai, Brian V. Rusk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metalinguistic Awareness in the EFL Classroom and Beyond: Exploring the Potential of Translation Tasks

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader, Sandra L. Halverson, Christine Möller‐Omrani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genre analysis today

Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 1997
L'A. met l'accent sur l'importance de la dimension institutionnelle dans la construction et l'interpretation des genres. Il s'attache a demontrer quelques-unes des strategies communicatives que mettent en oeuvre differents discours : sortant du champ strictement litteraire, il envisage tour a tour le discours promotionnel (publicite, offres d'emploi ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Using Virtual Exchange for Teaching BELF Pragmatics: Developing an Online Negotiation Activity

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching Business English (BE) is experiencing a paradigm shift to reflect the communicative needs of the global workplace. With the majority of interactions in English now taking place among multilingual speakers, there are increasing calls to integrate perspectives of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) into English language and ...
Miya Komori‐Glatz, Kaisa S. Pietikäinen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A GENRE-FOCUSED ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS IN THE FIELD OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
A Genre-Focused Analysis of Scientific Abstracts in the Field of Veterinary Medicine. This paper explores genre analysis and its reflection on the discourse surrounding ESP texts while identifying prevalent rhetorical structures in scientific abstracts.
Simona Catrinel AVARVAREI
doaj   +1 more source

Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim, Tove Larsson, Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang, Pia Sundqvist   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

CURRICULUM VITAE: A DISCOURSE OF CELEBRATION WITH NARCISSISTIC ALLUSIONS

TEFLIN Journal, 2012
The present study, a part of a larger project, deals with the under-researched (sub) genre of curriculum vitae (CV) of theses written in English by Indonesian students of English as a foreign language (EFL).
Yazid Basthomi
doaj  

Designing Feedback and Assessment for GenAI‐Assisted Digital Multimodal Composition in L2

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The rapidly evolving use of GenAI leads to a crucial need for new approaches to instruction and assessment of language skills in DMC tasks. The study adopted a convergent mixed‐methods design within an 11‐week action research framework. The study was conducted with 12 Turkish tertiary‐level L2 learners based on a process‐genre pedagogy to ...
Sibel Söğüt, Ergün Cihat Çorbacı, Volker Hegelheimer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source