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A Task-based Needs Analysis for the English Language Institute at the University of Hawai'I at Manoa

Kim, Youngkyu; Kong, Don-Kwan; Lee, Younnneun; Silva, Anthony; Urano, Ken

This study investigates ESL students’ needs in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) program. Specifically, this research focuses on diverse attributes that potentially determine learners’ needs in EAP courses in terms of ...
Teacher and Student Perceptions of Second Language Writing Feedback: A Survey of Six College ESL Classes and Their Teachers

Johnstun, Ann (2009)

Research on second language writing has focused on feedback practices and student revision processes. The purpose of this study is to examine students’ and teachers’ feelings and thoughts in regards to written feedback, ...
Teachers' Belief on Teaching and Learning L2 Reading

Yamaguchi,Takako (2006)

This project was designed to give insights on L2 reading teachers’ belief. Through classroom observation and interviews with teachers and students, this study observed the link between teachers’ belief and their actions ...
Thank you for your awesome thoughts about the article: Social interaction and critical thinking in student-facilitated online discussions

Meier, Valerie (2013)

This study examines critical thinking and social interaction in the context of a peer-facilitated reading discussion task which was conducted over five weeks of an online advanced ESL reading class. Five research questions ...
Vocabulary Knowledge Differences between Placed and Promoted EAP Students

Clark, Martyn K.,; Ishida, Saori (2004)

This study investigates differences in vocabulary knowledge as a potential explanation for perceived differences between placed and promoted students in a university EAP reading course. Students in an advanced reading ...
±Voice: Processes of Discovery in PraXis

Lee, Emily (2008)

While it may be unusual for a research piece in second language studies to begin with pieces of a narrative, in this autoethnographic study, the author seeks to show her experiences as an immigrant child and, throughout ...
What Do Learners Know about the Factors That Affect Their Listening Comprehension?

Tian, Jia (2002)

This research intended to identify EFL learners’ difficulties in listening comprehension, and explore strategies they use to overcome such difficulties. By replicating Hasan’s (2000) study, this survey questionnaire ...
Working through Plagiarism and Patchwriting: Three L2 Writers Navigating Intertextual Worlds

McClanahan, Kelly (2005)

The occurrence of plagiarism in L2 writing has been explained as arising from cultural differences and from a perceived lack in ESL students’ ability to write ‘in their own words’ and to follow English academic writing ...
Writing Program for Foreign Graduate Students (ELI 83): An Evaluation

Aung, Myint; Thapa, Gita; Fujimoto, Lani (1988)

This study intends to evaluate academic writing course for international graduate students at a university. By adopting the Systems Approach, this study seeks to find some limitations of the course in order to promote its ...
"You Must Learn This or Your Paper Will Be Killed": Three International Students' Perception of Academic Literacies

Rannik, Ave (2006)

This study explores the experiences of three international students who are in the process of discovering academic genre expectations and appropriating academic writing conventions. The data was obtained through student ...