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. ...

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 ...

In order to investigate how children come to interpret omitted arguments, four experiments are reported involving Thai-speaking adults, English-speaking adults, Thai-speaking 4- and 5-year-olds, and English-speaking ...

It is argued that a linguistic analysis of such data is necessary for the linguist interested not only in the application(s) of language, but more importantly, in the ideologies of language which reflect and sustain ...

The phonological feature [±nasal] is used to describe sounds that are distinguished based on the relative state of the velopharyngeal opening, but does not distinguish oropharyngeal differences. The opening of the ...