Discussion is a common and important learning process.Involvement of a virtual agent can provide adaptive support for the discussion process.Argumen-tative knowledge construction is beneficial to learners’acquisition...
This work was supported by JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR15E1,Japan.
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising our communication practices and the ways in which we interact with each other. This revolution does not only impact how we communicate, but it affects the nature of the partn...
The goal of this study is to compare the use of plural forms of the first personal pronouns by native English speakers andChinese EFL learners in their argumentative essays from the aspect of collocation,based on Engl...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death across the globe. Approximately 17.9 million of people die globally each year due to CVD, which comprises 31% of all d...
As an important communicating tool,writing used to exchange information,maintain financial accounts and express thoughts and ideas in everyday life.Argumentative writing as one of the writing genre is the most frequen...
Based on the six Thematic Progression patterns proposed by Huang Guowen,a comparative study of argumentative writing by Chinese English majors is carried out,aiming at finding out the features of thematic progression ...
Argumentative English writing is an important touchstone of Chinese advanced English learners’English competence.Herbert Paul Grice’s“cooperative principles”(including maxims of quantity,quality,relation,and manne...
The purpose of this study was to establish an argumentative discourse learning environment to explore its influences on 8th graders' scientific argumentation ability. A none-equivalent pretest-posttest quasi-experime...
The objective of the study is to examine the effects of Problem based English writing instruction on Thai Upper secondary school students' critical thinking abilities and argumentative writing skill.In this study,the ...
Competence in academic writing in college is a challenging as well as an engaging task for many college students. Argumentative writing and acknowledging the counterargument is one of modes that is introduced in fresh...