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Swales, John M.

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139524827

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“…He cited Swales' analysis of a typical article introduction as consisting of a four-move structure, namely, establishing the research field, summarizing previous research, preparing for present research, and introducing the present research. Applying the work of Swales (2004Swales ( , 1990, Kanoksilapatham (2009), studying prevalent organizational patterns as manifested in scientific research article abstracts, observed that the use of such moves could be recognized with some variations. Nuttall (2000) differentiates four types of meaning when a text is processed.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Inference Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension of Challenging Texts

Attaprechakul¹

2013

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This study aimed to explore inference strategies necessary to successfully read journal articles. Eighty-eight graduate students read a set of texts on education and economic growth and answered comprehension questions. Twenty-four of these participants also volunteered for an in-depth interview. The findings revealed that students usually relied on their bottom-up processing. They skipped difficult parts, especially technical information and graphic illustrations. They sought help from friends to enhance their understanding. Overall, they were successful at interpreting the thesis statement, the gist of the section, the meaning of the tested words and clause. However, they were less able to infer the underlying argument, the tone of the article, and the attitudes of others toward the research findings. A substantial number of students also failed to utilize information from section headings and the organization of research articles to guide their reading tasks.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Inference Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension of Challenging Texts

Attaprechakul¹

2013

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“…For example, students of literature and linguistics need to be taught academic essay writing, so that they are competent in writing essays and compositions that pertain to a general and wide area of topics requiring creativity and independence. Writing in English is essentially an evolving process that takes into consideration the linguistic, cognitive, social, and cultural aspects, which demands a multidimensional approach (Kucer & Silva, 2006) to achieve effective written communication in order to meet the expectations of a certain discourse community (Swales, 1990(Swales, , 2004. Writers employ certain cognitive strategies in the process of writing, like planning the essay and reviewing and proofreading, in order to construct meaning.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Principled Eclecticism: Approach and Application in Teaching Writing to ESL/EFL Students

Alharbi¹

2017

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The principal purpose of this paper is to critically examine and evaluate the efficacy of the principled eclectic approach to teaching English as second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) writing to undergraduate students. The paper illustrates that this new method adapts mainstream writing pedagogies to individual needs of learners of ESL/EFL in order to address students' difficulties arising from their contact with an unfamiliar language. Such a claim is based on the researcher's review of relevant research, the analysis and evaluation of scholarly studies on the subject by leading academics and authorities in the area, and the researcher's practical experiences as a writing teacher in the Department of English Language and Translation (DELT), College of Languages and Translation (COLT), King Saud University (KSU). It has been generally observed that the common, time-honored, language-based, process-based, and genre-based approaches to teaching writing tend to troubleshoot only certain specific problems related to the teaching of ESL/EFL writing. This paper highlights the importance of student-centered approaches to teaching in order to achieve the goal of coherent, pluralistic language teaching. To achieve this, the discussion recommends classifying, selecting, and sequencing the activities related to teaching writing. Indeed, this is what eclecticism means. The term principled signifies coherence that consistently focuses upon the same formal or functional units and sequencing them at the end to help learners interact and participate in writing activities that need contextualized attention. The paper concludes that the gap between eclecticism and principled eclecticism in teaching English writing must be bridged to improve ESL/EFL learners' writing skills.

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“…Then, publications are predicted to rise because of the contribution given by scholars from India (Benfield & Howard, 2000;Ferguson, 2007; clac 57/2014, 45-58 cianflone: communicating 49 Hyland, 2009;Salager-Meyer, 2008;Ware & Mabe, 2009). These academics often leave their home countries to be enrolled in leading UK and US universities to gain the "been to America" status once back home (Swales, 2004). To this, the involvement of researchers from the so called emerging countries, namely China, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, not to talk of Latin America, should be added.…”

Section: Data On Publication Outputmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This role of English has an impact on the editorial practices of many journals, too. As a necessity, in fact, many European and non-European journals to keep pace with this "English-driven" trend and to gain international reputation and world-wide readership within the increasingly globalized audience, have adopted the editorial strategy of selecting English as the official language of publication (Swales, 2004). Some journals have also translated the title in English.…”

Section: The Predominance Of English In Scholarly Publicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%