This meta-analysis examined if students writing about content material in science, social
studies, and mathematics facilitated learning (k= 56 experiments). Studies in this review …

'The first thing you must do is conduct a comprehensive literature review.'This is one of the
early tasks that many research students are asked to undertake by their supervisors. It can …

Introducing English for Specific Purposes presents the key concepts and practices of ESP in
a modern, balanced, and comprehensive way. This book defines ESP and shows how the …

Metadiscourse–the ways in which writers and speakers interact through their use of
language with readers and listeners–is a widely used term in current discourse analysis …

The study reported in this article investigated the linguistic challenges that students face at
an English medium instruction (EMI) university in Turkey. The aims of the study were (1) to …

Student feedback literacy, which concerns learners' understanding and evaluation of
feedback information and of self-regulated learning, has recently drawn increasing scholarly …

This study explores the construct of lexical sophistication and its applications for measuring
second language lexical and speaking proficiency. In doing so, the study introduces the Tool …

In the subject of smart sustainable cities, the underlying theories are a foundation for
practice. Moreover, scholarly research in the field of smart sustainable cities operates out of …

Informality has become something of a contemporary mantra as, from the denim-clad offices
of internet startups to the pages of business reports, we are encouraged to shed old …

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the
level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic …