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Existential Constructions and Syntactic Complexity in Chinese EFL Writing: A Corpus‐Based Comparative Study With ChatGPT‐Enhanced Analysis

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Existential constructions (ECs) play an important role in academic writing by introducing new information, expressing epistemic stance and facilitating information flow. Examining how EFL learners use different EC types can offer valuable insights into their syntactic development and writing proficiency. Previous research, however, has focused
Bingwei li, Lehua Zhang, Yutong Ao, Xiaoyu Xiao   +3 more
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) as Form‐Focused and Meaning‐Focused Activities: Refining its Measurement and Examining its Predictive Role in L2 Achievement and Confidence

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 393-408, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Acknowledging the limitations of existing measurement instruments in adequately capturing the distinct cognitive processes (e.g., form‐focused vs. meaning‐focused) involved in informal digital learning of English (IDLE), this paper asserts a pressing need to develop and validate robust instruments that measure form‐focused and meaning‐focused ...
Minlin Zou, Mark Feng Teng, Ali Soyoof, Xueyun He   +3 more
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Metadiscourse Markers in Greta Thunberg’s Speeches

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<p><em>This study aims at discussing the type of metadiscourse markers and explain the metadiscourse used in Thunberg’s speeches. This study used qualitative method to describe the types and the function of metadiscourse markers in Greta Thunberg’s speeches.
Sona Kholifah, Rosyida Ekawati
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Metadiscourse and Teacher Moves for Supporting Student Reasoning in Linguistics Classroom Interactions

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 522-539, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the features of metadiscourse across different teacher moves in university linguistics classroom discourse and the teaching strategies reflected in its use. The results reveal that teachers employ diverse metadiscourse during classroom interactions to support student reasoning.
Jingjie Li, Wenjie Hu
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A Comparative Analysis of Metadiscourse Markers in the Result and Discussion Sections of Literature and Engineering Research Papers [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2017
This study compares metadiscourse markers in result and discussion sections of literature and engineering research papers. To this end, 40 research articles (20 literature and 20 engineering) are selected from two major international journals.
Maryam Kahkesh, Mohammad Alipour
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BOOSTERS AS INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE MARKERS: A CORPUSDRIVEN COMPARATIVE STUDY

IEDSR Association, 2021
This paper examined and compared two corpora in terms of boosters, a category of interactional metadiscourse markers. Boosters strengtens the writers' existence, position, argument, claims, and commitment into the texts. One hundred articles are composed of the corpora; 50 from non-native researchers’ papers (Turkish writers), and 50 from native ...
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The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London Public multiple : organisation des communautés et politique fractale dans l'est de Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1003-1022, December 2025.
Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
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Writing Against Fate: Climate Strategies and Subversions in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Climate fiction's dominant futurist imaginaries trend towards resolved futures, particularly in apocalyptic and techno‐utopian representations of our climate futures. These closure‐driven narratives treat the future as a fated, distant event, limiting climate fiction's interrogation of human agency, responsibility, and potential action in the ...
Maryn Gardner
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Racing whiteness in Asian bodies: The influence of American conservatism on Singaporean anti‐colonial nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1078-1098, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary Singaporean sociopolitical discourse, comparisons with the West—particularly the USA and the UK—have become pervasive across a wide range of critical social issues. These comparisons often serve to reinforce the political positions of the Singaporean state by contrasting them with perceived shortcomings in the Western world ...
Wee Yang Gelles‐Soh
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