Acquiring proficiency in academic genres is a key factor in research community. Among various genres in academic discourse communities, spoken genre, especially Conference Presentations (CPs), play a crucial role in research communities, though investigation on this important genre is in its infancy or is relatively under-researched. Therefore, the present study aims to shed light on the import...

Classifying text genres across languages can bring the benefits of genre classification to the target language without the costs of manual annotation. This article introduces the first approach to this task, which exploits text features that can be considered stable genre predictors across languages. My experiments show this method to perform equally well or better than full text translation co...

In this paper we study the integration of various audio, visual and text-based descriptors for automatic video genre classification. Experimental validation is conducted on 26 video genres specific to web media platforms (e.g. blip.tv).

This paper reports on a qualitative study investigating the experience and perspectives of students using English as an international language studying transdisciplinary master’s degrees related to culture industries at Goldsmiths, University of London. The particular focus of this paper concerns their experiences of writing several different genres on their degree programmes, including a categ...

The past five years have seen the emergence of robust, scalable natural language processing systems that can summarize and answer questions about online material. One key to the success of such systems is that they re-use text that appeared in the documents rather than generating new sentences from scratch. Re-using text is absolutely essential for the development of robust systems; full semant...

There has been a growing interest in genre as a powerful means of analysing and understanding texts in cross-disciplinary areas. Genres tend to be conceived as generic structures that constrain individuals and communicative events. In second language writing pedagogy, much attention has been given to raising ESL (English as a Second Language) students’ structural awareness of genres as the rout...

This study explores the ways in which master thesis writers position their research field of English language teaching a context where academic literacies are still developing field. From social semiotic perspective, this paper aims to identify resources use represent object and provide justification for research. The analysis focuses on ideational textual metafunctions account patterns meaning...

BACKGROUND Research on the presentation of information in narrative versus expository text genres is inconclusive with respect to the question of which is more beneficial for student learning. AIMS We examine the effect of presenting factual content in either narrative or expository genres on student learning. We also consider relevant prior knowledge and working memory capacity (WMC) as pote...

This study aims to find out the text genres, generic structure and language features in English textbook Pathway used by tenth grade students. analyzed genre of text, structure, features. A descriptive qualitative method is analyze textbook. There were four genres found collecting data, narrative recount announcement text. Then researcher analyzing After that from 18 texts taken, 4 (22%) data 5...