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The Longitudinal Development of Grammatical Complexity at the Phrasal and Clausal Levels in Spoken and Written Responses to the "TOEFL iBT"® Test. Research Report. ETS RR-19-45
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Gray, Bethany; Geluso, Joe; Nguyen, Phuong – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
In the present study, we take a longitudinal, corpus-based perspective to investigate short-term (over 9 months) linguistic change in the language produced for the spoken and written sections of the "TOEFL iBT"® test by a group of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners in China. The goal of the study is to identify patterns that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Testing, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency
Greenpeace Greenspeak: A Transcultural Discourse Analysis
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Heinz, Bettina; Cheng, Hsin-I; Inuzuka, Ako – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2007
This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Are They Really So Different? The "Chinese" Genre of University Entrance Essays.
Kirkpatrick, Andy – Open Letter, 1995
Focuses on how people from different cultures organize and sequence texts in different ways and how students write essays in a second language that follow the rhetorical patterns of their native language. The article describes the types of essays Chinese students must write for the university entrance exam in their home country. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism