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Linguistics

2011

American University in Cairo

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Student Use And Teacher Requirement Of E-Mail Conventions, Lora Ibrahim Galabi Apr 2011

Student Use And Teacher Requirement Of E-Mail Conventions, Lora Ibrahim Galabi

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the use of conventions by EFL students and the requirement of conventions by EFL teachers in student-teacher e-mail communication, in an English-medium university in the Arab world. A convenience sample of 61 students and 13 teachers from the Intensive English Program at the American University in Cairo, Egypt was used. Data were obtained for this exploratory study from a student survey, a teacher survey, and a sample of student e-mails, and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and thematic content analysis. Chi-square tests revealed a correlation between the frequency of …