This paper is an analysis of lexical choices, pronunciation errors, and discourse features found in a corpus of student presentation speech. The speakers were Swedish natives studying Technical English. Particular emphasis is given to the pronunciation of the words most often used in academic texts. 93% of words used in the corpus came from the most frequent 2570 lexemes of academic written Eng...

This paper presents a case study of a web-based on-line collaborative academic writing project by students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at two Higher Education institutions in the UK. The project aimed to develop the students’ academic writing in English by exploiting the informational and geographical gaps between them. The study outlines the logistical requirements of such a project...