This research project investigates one-on-one and group ESL writing conference practices and instructor and student views on how these collaborative writing conferences help improve students' academic writing skills. ...

Hindi has an unmarked SOV order (verb-final language), but constituents can be arranged in different orderings. While the focus of earlier studies has been on the rich set of word order variations; alternations at the ...

In English, speakers highlight new or semantically focused information by prosodic enhancement–greater pitch, greater duration, and greater intensity–as compared to words that are already given in, or inferable from the ...

The study reported on here was an investigation into the acquisition of English sentential complementation by adult native speakers of Finnish. A written test consisting of six production tasks and a small comprehension ...

This study investigates adaptation of the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA) English Placement Test (EPT) Specification (spec) to the Ukrainian argumentative writing test taken by Ukrainian high-school ...

After the introduction, followed by a survey of several areas of related work in Chapter 2, Chapter 3 presents a newly developed sentence-annotated corpus resource divided into three parts for large-scale exploration of ...

Agreement is a prevalent phenomenon observed across languages. It helps us identify which elements in the sentence are linked or should be interpreted together (Bock et al 1999). This property of agreement may imply that ...