Introduction Bell Multicultural is a high school located in Washington, D.C. with a predominantly language minority student population. A considerable number of these students are recent immigrants to this country, requiring English as a Second or Other Language instruction. Academic transition for these students is facilitated through sheltered content classes during their first year at Bell. ...

background: there are two main methods employed for the evaluation of the reading comprehension ability of students of esp; one using specialized english texts, and the other with general english texts. purpose: to determine whether or not there is a correlation between the two methods.     methods: in the regular         competency for academic purposes.

The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from an Iranian website (www.maktoobkhane.com). We used Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse. The metadiscourses were collected. Further, the frequency of each type was studied....

This article presents a study of individual variation in computer-mediated communication. Different reduction processes, which reduce the formality and usually the orthographical form of an expression, are used at varying frequencies by non-native speakers of English in academic textchat seminars. Such processes are classified into four categories: clipping, homophone respelling, phonetic respe...

Appropriate reference to other texts is an essential feature of most academic writing, and we should expect courses in academic writing to sensitize students to the choices that are available to them when they decide to refer to other texts. A brief review of popular EAP writing textbooks finds, however, that attention is given mainly to surface features of citation, focusing on quotation, summ...

This study examined the relation between academic factors and senior high school students' general happiness using a nationally representative sample of 11,061 11th graders in Taiwan. Pearson correlation analyses indicated that English teacher-perceived academic performance, mathematics teacher-perceived academic performance, teacher academic support, classmate academic support, organizational ...

This paper describes the acquisition, transcription and annotation of a multi-media corpus of academic spoken English, the LMELectures. It consists of two lecture series that were read in the summer term 2009 at the computer science department of the University of ErlangenNuremberg, covering topics in pattern analysis, machine learning and interventional medical image processing. In total, abou...