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Higher Education Preparation And Decision Making Trends Among International Students, Krishna Bista, Amy Dagley
Higher Education Preparation And Decision Making Trends Among International Students, Krishna Bista, Amy Dagley
Krishna Bista
As Different As Night And Day: The Ways Japanese Adult Working Learners In An Eop Program Learn Differently From University Students, Yuko Hijikata-Someya, Robert A. Eckhart
As Different As Night And Day: The Ways Japanese Adult Working Learners In An Eop Program Learn Differently From University Students, Yuko Hijikata-Someya, Robert A. Eckhart
Robert A. Eckhart
The Ohio State University launched a language training program customized for a Japanese company in May, 2014. This program targets approximately 340 Japanese workers transferred from Japan to Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Teaching materials are delivered online and we provide digital classrooms so that they could study English wherever they are. In addition to the typical challenge in ESP – matching content with their needs – and the language distance between their L1 Japanese and L2 English, we have many challenges that relate to working adult learners’ perceptions of English learning and their learning styles. This article discusses Japanese …
The Dynamic Ecology Of The Writing Process And Agency: A Corpus-Based Comparative Case Study Of Stancetaking Among Native Speakers And Non-Native Speakers Of English In First-Year Composition Conferences, Kirk Marshall Wilkins
The Dynamic Ecology Of The Writing Process And Agency: A Corpus-Based Comparative Case Study Of Stancetaking Among Native Speakers And Non-Native Speakers Of English In First-Year Composition Conferences, Kirk Marshall Wilkins
Kirk Marshall Wilkins
While previous research into writing conferences and tutorials has found that sessions with non-native speakers of English (NNSs) differ from those with native speakers of English (NSs), these studies using conversation analysis have tended to approach conferences through more qualitative methodologies. This thesis builds upon and enriches these previous studies by incorporating more of a quantitative analysis through the use of corpus linguistics to systematically analyze the frequency with which particular grammatical devices that express the attitude of the speaker, otherwise known as stance, and power are used and how these frequencies may vary within a specific set of NS …