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Navigating Across Communicative Contexts: Exploring Writing Proficiency in Adolescent and Adult EFL Learners
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This thesis examines whether EFL learners deploy their language skills differently and successfully when writing across communicative contexts. Study 1 proposes an innovative construct register flexibility, which refers to the ability to flexibly use a variety of linguistic resources to appropriately address various audiences across communicative contexts. A total of 263 EFL learners from three native language groups (Chinese, French, and Spanish) participated in this study. Using the researcher-developed Communicative Writing Instrument (CW-I), each participant produced: a personal email to a close friend (colloquial) and an academic report for an educational authority (academic). Texts were analyzed for linguistic complexity at the lexical, syntactic and discourse levels. Consistent with previous research, findings revealed positive associations between participants’ English proficiency and the linguistic complexity of the texts produced. In contrast, the association between English proficiency and register flexibility was not consistent across the different linguistic levels and differed across the three native language groups. Study 2 examined EFL writers’ use of metadiscourse markers (MDMs), and their contribution to writing quality within and across colloquial and academic contexts. The corpus consisted of 704 written texts from 352 participants (collected also with CW-I). Texts were coded for three subtypes of organizational markers (i.e., frame markers, code glosses, and transitions) and three subtypes of stance markers (i.e., hedges, boosters, and attitude indicators). Trained EFL teachers scored overall writing quality using a standard rubric. The study reveals the similarities and differences in MDMs used across communicative contexts. Findings also revealed that the diversity of organizational markers and the frequency of frame markers were positive predictors of both academic and colloquial writing. In contrast, diversity of stance markers and the frequency of hedges were positively associated with writing quality only in the colloquial register condition. Findings from both studies inform EFL writing instructors to design instruction that focuses not only on teaching linguistic forms, but which also encourages EFL learners to contrast the functional use of these resources across communicative contexts. ; register flexibility; linguistic complexity; writing proficiency; pragmatics; English as a foreign language
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Education; Language; Language and Literature; Linguistics
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URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37935833
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Framing the DREAM Act: An Analysis of Congressional Speeches
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MEMAHAMI PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM MELALUI PROGRAM ADIWIYATA (CINTA LINGKUNGAN) DI SMP NEGERI 2 LAMONGAN
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In: JALIE: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Islamic Education, Vol 1, Iss 02, Pp 254-273 (2018) (2018)
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EFL Students' Perceptions towards Using Google Docs and Google Classroom as Online Collaborative Tools in Learning Grammar
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 33-48 (2018) (2018)
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THE SHIFT OF ACEHNESE LANGUAGE IN PULAU KAMPAI COMMUNITY, NORTH SUMATRA
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 48-57 (2018) (2018)
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TAKSONOMI BLOOM DAN IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM BERBASIS MULTIKULTURAL
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In: JALIE: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Islamic Education, Vol 1, Iss 02, Pp 234-253 (2018) (2018)
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The Effect of Collaborative Asynchronous E-mailing on EFL Learners' Writing Ability
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 26-32 (2018) (2018)
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ENGLISH VOWELS AND CONSONANTS MISPRONUNCIATION OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA IN HIS OFFICIAL ENGLISH SPEECHES AND ITS INFLUENCING FACTORS
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 113-128 (2018) (2018)
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A Comparative Analysis of the Apology Strategy between Turkish EFL Learners and English Native Speakers
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 48-57 (2018) (2018)
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Ethnic Semiolinguistics' Role and Place in Discourse Formation and Discourse Development: Russian and English
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 33-40 (2018) (2018)
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LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT IN NON-MARRIAGE COUPLE
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 78-84 (2018) (2018)
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THE RELIABILITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY SCALE IN MALAY VERSION BASED ON CRONBACH’S ALPHA
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 37-47 (2018) (2018)
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Error Analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement Made by Students in Meurandeh Langsa
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 157-165 (2018) (2018)
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LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY OF TEENAGERS TOWARD THE CATEGORIES OF GENDER IN LANGSA KOTA
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 58-67 (2018) (2018)
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Applying Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory on Lady Macbeth's Speech in Shakespeare's Macbeth
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 27-34 (2018) (2018)
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STYLISTICS IN “ASAHAN DALAM ANGKA 2015” TRANSLATION TEXT
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 175-181 (2018) (2018)
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TEENAGERS CULTURAL VALUES TOWARDS THEIR VERNACULAR AND INDONESIAN LANGUAGES
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 68-77 (2018) (2018)
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The Effect of Interventionist Classroom vs. MALL Dynamic Assessment on EFL Learners' Vocabulary Learning
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 58-66 (2018) (2018)
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DOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 140-150 (2018) (2018)
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TEENAGERS' PERCEPTION TOWARD LANGUAGE USE IN PUBLIC PLACE ADVERTISEMENT
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 151-156 (2018) (2018)
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