Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language, polysemy, and hypernymy have yielded new insights into the construct of lexical sophistication and its relationship with second language (L2) acquisition and writing. For example, recent studies have suggested that...

Although the concept of metacognition has received considerable attention for its impact on learning across disciplinary areas, it has not been sufficiently discussed in the context of L2 academic reading and writing. In this paper, we bring together two theoretical frameworks, genre analysis and metacognition theory, and discuss the concept of metacognitive genre awareness. Drawing on the anal...

Memes are the new social media language and they increasingly exercise their potency of effecting intense discourses among younger audience. In this dimension, seen as interesting resources communication that can promote L2 learning. English Language Acquisition (ELA) has always been a challenge for vernacular-medium Indian students. The study took 177 student participants (with background) pur...

“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, standing in a dictionary, how potent for good evil become the hands of one who knows to combine them”, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). It is true that from just words can phrase then sentence but what we may need realize hard challenging it make right. To face real world, writing most skill teach language teachers mainly because students take time ...