Published in User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Some students, when working in interactive learning environments, attempt to “game the system”, attempting to succeed in the environment by exploiting properties of the system rather than by learning the material and trying to use that knowledge to answer correctly. In this paper, we present a system that can accurately detect whether a student is ...
Published in The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
With an increase in English-medium courses in universities in non-English speaking countries, various concerns have been raised such as difficulty of students’ lecture comprehension and ineffective interaction between lecturers and students. This study scrutinized relationships among Korean medical students’ comprehension of and satisfaction with E...
In a parallel-language environment the use of textbooks in English in courses otherwise in the local language is naturalized and not widely discussed or questioned. The aim of this study was to elicit the attitudes and syllabus infrastructure that underlie the practice. A large-scale survey was carried out and answers were obtained from over 20% of...
[EN] The ultimate aim of intercultural analyses in English for Academic Purposes is to help non-native scholars function successfully in the international disciplinary community in English. The aim of this paper is to show how corpus-based intercultural analyses can be useful to design EAP materials on a particular metadiscourse category, logical m...
10.1016/j.jeap.2007.09.006 / Journal of English for Academic Purposes / 6 / 3 / 254-271
This article explores five students' perceptions of their writing experiences at an English-medium post-graduate university in a non-English speaking country as compared to writing in their home country universities in their native languages. Three types of differences are found to be relevant: language and rhetorical differences, disciplinary diff...
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
John Swales, professor of linguistics and former director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, is a major figure in applied linguistics. He was one of the developers of current social approaches to literacy studies and a developer of the concept of discourse community.
[EN] Both English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes have advanced from the exploration of lexico-grammatical features during the 1980s and 1990s toward a thicker language description which includes not only lexico-grammatical features but also studies of genre-rhetorical features and of the social practices which shape a...
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
The integration of language and content instruction is of increasing interest in second and foreign language programs at elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels around the world. Some programs focus on developing language proficiency using content themes for meaningful literacy and discussion activities. Others focus on making subject area cours...
