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Full-Text Articles in Applied Linguistics
Evaluation In Moderation: Evaluative Adjectives In Student Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
Evaluation In Moderation: Evaluative Adjectives In Student Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
Evaluation is inherent in academic discourse and fundamental to shaping college students’ critical thinking and ability to assess the status of discipline-specific information. The current study focused on the use of evaluative adjectives in native English speaking (L1) and English as a second language (L2) college student academic presentations (N = 40). The goal was to find out how the two groups of presenters compared on their frequency, referential choices, variability of evaluative adjectives, patterns of adjectival structures, and level of sophistication of the adjectives they used and also to identify common trends for both groups along the categories. The …
International Graduate Student Powerpoint Presentation Designs: A Reality Check, Alla Zareva
International Graduate Student Powerpoint Presentation Designs: A Reality Check, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
The present study set out to examine what novice international graduate student presenters consider to be effective PowerPoint slide design practices and the extent to which these practices are in agreement with experts’ advice. The analysis focused on three main features of students’ PowerPoint presentations – organisation, style and typography. The general conclusion is that we can mostly rely on students’ intuitions concerning ‘relevance’ and ‘simplicity’ of PowerPoint presentation designs, but we should draw their attention to ‘consistency’, i.e., the systematic application of the organisation, style and typological features to their PowerPoint presentations.
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
Lexical Composition Of Effective L1 And L2 Students' Academic Presentations, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
The present study set out to examine the lexical profiles of L1 (n = 30) and proficient L2 students' presentations (n = 30), aiming at finding out the overall lexical composition of successful academic presentations. It was also of interest to see how some of the presentations' lexical features compared to findings about the lexical composition of students' productively used vocabulary in writing. In addition to this, the analysis focused on the lexical composition of both groups' oral production in an attempt to uncover patterns of lexical uses that may need to be discussed in oral communication courses, specifically targeting …
What Is New In The New Toefl-Ibt 2006 Test Format?, Alla Zareva
What Is New In The New Toefl-Ibt 2006 Test Format?, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
In recent years TOEFL has become one of the most popular high-stakes tests affecting not only what and how English language teachers teach but also what and how students learn (e.g. Johnson, Jordan, & Poehner, 2005; Alderson & Wall, 1993). The new 2006 TOEFL–iBT exam is on its way; yet, until now, information about the new test format and test preparation materials is scarce. Above and beyond interest in the test alone, the burning question is what demanded the revision of the current test, given that the latest computer-based TOEFL was introduced fairly recently worldwide. The paper elaborates on some …