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L2 writers referencing corpora to address accuracy: a qualitative analysis of learners' lexicogrammatical error corrections
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(S)mothered in translation? (Re)translating the female Bildungsroman in the twentieth century in English and French
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The division of deontic labour in the discourse of HIV/AIDS post-1996. A critical discourse analysis of necessity and obligation in the British press and interviews with gay men with HIV
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The language of oral presentations given by PhD researchers in an EAP class: level of performance and disciplinary differences
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The influence of review strategies on students’ English-language writing performance in a first-year university undergraduate Thai EFL writing context
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Language education policy and language practices in teaching English as a foreign language in a Saudi newly established university: an interpretive case study
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The discourse of fundraising in UK universities: a critical discourse analysis
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A corpus linguistic approach to meaning-making patterns in surveillance discourse
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A comparative analysis of lexical cohesion in native and non-native speaker writing: text linguistics and corpus perspectives
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Getting started with English-medium instruction in Japan: key factors in program planning and implementation
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Corpus use by student writers: error correction by Thai learners of English
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An integrated approach to achievement: measuring the development of writing skills in Kurdish learners of English as a foreign language (EFL)
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This thesis is a contribution to the field of learner corpus studies. It compares a number of different measures of accuracy and complexity in second language writing, applying those measures to a sample of 308 essays written by Kurdish university students majoring in English in three schools in Iraqi Kurdistan (at two years of study: third year and fourth year). It proposes an innovative method for measuring correctness, and integrates a number of different measures of accuracy into an Integrated Approach to Achievement. It first starts by applying the method of traditional error analysis to a sample of the data collected, and then as a result the research makes recommendations for measuring ‘correctness’ instead of concentrating on the analysis of errors. It then operationalizes those recommendations, proposing an innovative method of assessment of accuracy in L2 writing by assessing ‘correctness’ as a replacement for the measurement of error using standard methods of analysis (the T-unit and clause-based correctness analysis). As a third attempt it proposes a new method of analysis that takes various units into account and hence called the various-units-based correctness analysis. After that it brings together all the measures of accuracy in a novel and integrated assessment method called an Integrated Approach to Achievement (IAA). The thesis also uses various measures of syntactic complexity, including phrasal complexity. For measuring lexical complexity a recently developed program called the Lexical Complexity Analyzer (LCA) is used. The findings are important for both English writing pedagogy and assessment.
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DS Asia; LB2300 Higher Education; P Philology. Linguistics; PE English
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URL: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7166/9/Abdulmajeed17PhD.pdf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7166/9.hassmallThumbnailVersion/Abdulmajeed17PhD.pdf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7166/
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The effects of data driven learning on Iranian EFL learners' writing skills development
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From language learners to dynamic meaning makers: a longitudinal investigation of Malaysian secondary school students’ development of English from text and corpus perspectives
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Marketization in the language of UK university recruitment: a critical discourse analysis and corpus comparison of university and finance industry job advertisements
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A study on the use of phrasal verbs by Malaysian learners of English
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Agatha Christie's 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles': a case study in Dutch and German translation cultures using corpus linguistic tools
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Discourse markers in spoken English: a corpus study of native speakers and Chinese non-native speakers
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Rethinking translation unit size: an empirical study of an English-Japanese newswire corpus
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