This study was designed to investigate the effect of written corrective feedback (WCF) on junior English learners'writing. Eighty-two Chinese junior students from two classes were observed in a draft-to-draft writi...
The paper reports the results of a field study which was carried out at the Language Centre of the University of Naples and originated in the observation that learning the Italian language was not perceived by ab init...
This paper investigates the effectiveness of closed captioning in aiding Saudi students who are learning ESL (English as a second language). Research was carried out in a qualitative manner, and participants were 12...
This paper presents CACA (computer-assisted corpus analysis) conducted by using a compiled representative corpus. As a descriptive study, it explores the written communicative events produced by engineers in the pet...
The paper aims to investigate the SVA (subject-verb agreement) errors made by the fourth semester (year two) diploma students at a public university in Malaysia. The samples are taking their EOP (English for Occu...
The present study is a comparison study of research instrument in the field of interlanguage pragmatics. Sixty-two Chinese EFL university students participated in the study. Written DCT and oral role-plays were design...
This article applies the theories of gender differences in language use, makes a survey of non-English major graduates' English writing, and analyzes the gender differences in EFL writing proficiency and particularly...
This paper makes comparison among CLEC, the Brown Corpus and the LOB Corpus, and studies the Chinese students' contraction strategies in English writings. It draws the temporary conclusion that Chinese students of va...