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Marina Grisel Wagemaker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Academic speech in the higher education community is an important form of communication and connection for scholars. Metacognition of academic speech for international multilingual graduate students is an understudied area. The purpose of the current study was to understand metacognition during academic speech for international multilingual…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Speech Communication, Graduate Students, Foreign Students
Kwak, Jennica Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
U.S. higher education attracts many international graduate students--particularly those from China today where many of them become international teaching assistants (ITAs) in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, which not only benefits the students, but also our country as a whole. However, unfortunately, the issue of the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Language, Teaching Assistants, Undergraduate Students
Lan, Ge – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since the 1990s, grammatical complexity is a topic that has received considerable attention in various fields of applied linguistics, such as English for academic purposes, second language acquisition, language testing, and second language writing (Bulte & Housen, 2012). Many scholars in applied linguistics have recently argued that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alharbi, Majed – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The term 'voice' has been a pivotal metaphor in the fields of composition studies and applied linguistics, and it still has a strong implicit and/or explicit presence in the U.S. classroom. This critical case study examines 6 Saudi graduate student writers' voices in various U.S. universities. Data were collected by analyzing texts of students'…
Descriptors: Arabs, Self Concept, Authors, English (Second Language)
Li, Kang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of identity development of Chinese graduate students in the United States. Through in-depth interviews with 15 participants at a Midwestern research university, the study found that the majority of Chinese graduate students came with a strong student identity that conflated with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Asians, Graduate Students, Barriers
Hardman, Jocelyn Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the intelligibility of Chinese graduate students to their Indian, Chinese, Korean, and American peers. Specifically, the researcher sought to determine the teaching priorities for English for Academic Purposes in the US, where listeners have a wide variety of native languages. Research on Second Language Acquisition…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Graduate Students, Sentences, Phonology