This article presents the results of a pilot study examining the use of first-person pronouns, certain adjectives and grading adverbs in a corpus of 51 French psychology student papers written in English as a second language. These results were compared to a corpus of published psychology articles and to a sub-corpus of psychology student texts from the British Academic Written English corpus (...

language; this is followed by a little on texts available, followed in turn by a long discussion of the taxonomy of such texts and a defence of the study of "academic" or "learned" vernacular texts. There is much to be learned here, although the author has not attempted a coherent study. Bert S. Hall devotes himself to considering problems of understanding and interpreting mostly published text...

SciPo is a system whose ultimate goal is to support novice writers in producing academic texts in Brazilian Portuguese through presentation of critiques and suggestions. Currently, it focuses on the rhetorical structure of texts, being capable of automatically detecting and criticizing the rhetorical structure of Abstract sections. We describe a system that enhances SciPo’s functionality by eva...

The increasing mobility due to Bologna process forces the academic partners to increase the inter-operability of their administrative processes, by interacting through a collaborative networks and therefore acting as an academic virtual organization. To facilitate the communication and the comprehension of the administrative processes between the components of the CN, the Business Process Model...

The increasing mobility due to Bologna process forces the academic partners to increase the inter-operability of their administrative processes, by interacting through a collaborative networks and therefore acting as an academic virtual organization. To facilitate the communication and the comprehension of the administrative processes between the components of the CN, the Business Process Model...

Dear JAAL Readers, In the last issue, we invited you to consider with us role that a journal plays in both responding and leading field like adult adolescent literacy research practice. We reiterate call for reading audience become involved through submitting manuscripts, applying an ad hoc reviewer, connecting online Facebook. spirit, this issue want ask readers following: how do engage texts ...

the purpose of this paper was to see whether any significant relationship exists among efl learners’ autonomy, left/right brain dominance, and reading comprehension of the academic reading and general reading modules of ielts examination. to this end, 100 female efl learners were randomly selected from those who were attending ielts preparatory courses at a language school in tehran. all partic...

Science communication training programs, increasingly found worldwide, aim to teach scientists skills for communicating about science with the public effectively. These include discussing science with less professional jargon. However, little attention has been paid to developing assessment methods for the outcomes of such programs, or for assessing the use of jargon. Here we propose a novel ap...