Abstract
 We report preliminary results of a mixed-methods longitudinal study academic writing by graduate students in English Vietnam. The research involves Vietnamese EFL teachers (n=62) taking 2-year MA Linguistics (TESOL) program delivered hybrid mode. program, jointly taught an American private university and large public Vietnam, uses innovative scaffolded thesis model developed the ...

since land reform in iran, rural studies and rural sociology have been concentrated on rural society as economical and political phenomena; therefore mostly traditional systems of production and power were noted in researches. one issue that was not addressed in this academic discourse was rural religion. religion as a core of culture and the main context to reproduce social integration has a k...

It is crucial to promote interdisciplinary research and recommend collaborators from different research fields via academic database analysis. This paper addresses a problem to characterize researchers’ interests with a set of diverse research topics found in a large-scale academic database. Specifically, we first use latent Dirichlet allocation to extract topics as distributions over words fro...

This article considers the problem of how to bring foreign language students with a limited vocabulary knowledge, consisting mainly of high-frequency words, to the point where they are able to adequately comprehend authentic texts in a target domain or genre. It proposes bridging the vocabulary gap by first determining which word families account for 95% of the target domain's running words, an...