Recreating Discourse Community for Appropriating HOCs in Law Undergraduates’ Academic Writing

Discourse Community Collocations and L2 Writing Content

Taking the position that writing can be an important skill to foster knowledge building pedagogy, this article explores vocabulary as a supportive tool for this purpose. Having this in mind, a compilation of conceptually loaded vocabularies pertaining to seven discourse communities was developed, two of which were given to a group of L2 writers to investigate the implications of phraseology for...

Preparing Undergraduates for Professional Writing

team teaching in english for academic purpose classrooms

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی کارآیی بین دو روش تدریس زبان انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی به نامهای تدریس گروهی و تدریس انفرادی انجام شد. بدین منظور، سه کلاس انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی مربوط به دانشجویان رشته جغرافیا، کامپیوتر و فقه و حقوق به روش گروهی توسط یک مدرس زبان انگلیسی و یک مدرس درس تخصصی در استان یزد در طول ترم پاییز سال تحصیلی 1390-1389 تدریس گردید. همزمان، سه کلاس زبان انگلیسی دیگر با اهداف د...

Predicting Academic Success in Undergraduates

College academic success and retention twvc tradi tionally been prcdich..-U using demographic and academic variables. This study in vcstigall.:tilhc influence of student heal th on or A and intent 10 drop out of college. A longitudinal survt.:y of 242 freshmen rcvc.1lcd that cmOlional and social faclors (e.g., stress, living in the donn, being in a study group) prcdiC1I."d second semester Or A ...

Nursing community in Croatia and academic writing: a continuous challenge

We read the article by Kalauz et al (1) with great interest. As authors stated, in Croatian nursing community there is a need for scientific journal of nursing which would enable nurses to publish scientific publications necessary to disseminate knowledge and obtain references for professional and scientific advancement within the profession. In new disciplines, such as nursing science, writing...