Foreign Language Writing in the Context of Modern Language Education in Non-Linguistic Majors

Melikhova, Irina; Skorobogatova, Anna

doi:10.29333/iji.2020.13211a

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“…Hamid & Doan (2014), and were done during the teaching process. Melikhova & Skorobogatova (2020) deal with undergraduate students´ writing, also on more general topics. Only one aspect of writing, grammar, was studied by Alghazo & Alshraideh (2020).…”

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Analysis of Stylistic and Grammatical Errors in PhD Students´ Research Paper Manuscripts

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2024

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The ability to publish research papers is a must for scientists nowadays. Ideally, at the very beginning of their career, young researchers, PhD students, should be instructed in writing research papers and should get feedback on their texts. In this study, the first manuscripts from 22 doctoral students, non-native English speakers, 223 pages were analysed for errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style. For each type of error and each student, the average per page was calculated. The most frequent errors were identified in using articles, formal features, missing information, and the use of inappropriate words. Individual students showed significantly different levels, which reflected their previous language training and the approach (responsibility) to completing the task. The results will be used to modify the course in Academic Writing (more attention paid to the most frequent errors) and individual work with students. Keywords: academic writing, scientific writing, research paper, PhD student, error

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Analysis of Stylistic and Grammatical Errors in PhD Students´ Research Paper Manuscripts

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2024

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“…Improvement of the teaching skills and techniques of English teachers as well as independent self-study of students outside the classroom are seen by the researcher as a solution to the problem. Melikhova & Skorobogatova (2020) add that foreign writing teaching can contribute both to the formation of other important competences and to the process of mastering a foreign language.…”

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A Corpus Based Study of Commas Use in EFL Written Performance

Lelakova¹,

Toman²

2023

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The present paper deals with the Slovak secondary school students' problem of using commas in the complex sentences containing adverbial and nominal subordinate clauses while writing essays in English. It also concentrates on the English teachers' ability to see correct/incorrect usage of commas in their students' works. The research sample is formed by school leaving exam essays written by the students whose English is at an B1 level. The digitalized texts of 115 essays are uploaded in The Main Corpus and divided into 8 different subcorpora referring to different essay's topics. Detailed corpus linguistic and statistical analyses lead to the conclusions that the overall commas use success of the observed EFL students directly depends on how difficult the topic of an essay is, and that the students' error rate in adverbial clauses is much higher than the rate in nominal clauses. The last finding referring to the fact that English language teachers overlook or incorrectly correct commas in a substantial number of sentences makes the authors think about all the possible roots and reasons of the students' inaccuracy in commas usage in their written performance and several suggestions how to solve this problem.

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Foreign Language Writing in the Context of Modern Language Education in Non-Linguistic Majors

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

Analysis of Stylistic and Grammatical Errors in PhD Students´ Research Paper Manuscripts

Analysis of Stylistic and Grammatical Errors in PhD Students´ Research Paper Manuscripts

A Corpus Based Study of Commas Use in EFL Written Performance

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