one of the challenges of academic writing is the creation of a structurally and communicatively well-organized and coherent text. metadiscourse enables authors of journal articles to achieve this goal by raising the writers‘ awareness about discourse features which can contribute to a better academic content production. also, l1 background has always been a hot topic in applied linguistics and ...

A considerable amount of research has already established that academic writing is an interactive accomplishment, the success which largely depends on appropriate writer-reader relationship. Yet, nature this relationship been subject few studies. Also scarce are studies how writers address needs their readers and so, through elaboration, manage interactions with them. Drawing a corpus 68 articl...

different studies in writing skill of second language learners show that they are weak in this skill. they know some vocabularies and grammatical rules but are unable to write a different kinds of texts. the study of contrastive rhetorics can help learners and teachers in this area. moreover, discourse markers that indicate rhetoric styles and principles have an important role in writing skill....

The task of word sense disambiguation is to assign a sense label to a word in a passage. We report our algorithms and experiments for the two tasks that we participated in viz. the task of WSD of WordNet glosses and the task of WSD of English lexical sample. For both the tasks, we explore a method of sense disambiguation through a process of “comparing” the current context for a word against a ...

The present study examines the effects of 3 kinds of glosses—first-language (L1) Chinese glosses plus second-language (L2) English example sentences, L1 in-text glosses, and L1 marginal glosses—in comparison with a no-gloss condition in reading an English passage, to explore whether providing glosses can facilitate reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. A total of 135 undergraduate b...

Abstract Following a large body of research on metadiscourse in academic writing, this paper explores one feature textual metadiscourse, code glosses, English L2 texts written by Czech university students. The study draws Hyland’s model (2005), which characterizes glosses as devices that elaborate propositional meanings rephrasing or explaining what has been said. Thus, they can help readers un...

In our paper we present a method for the automatic generation of single German Sign Language glosses from German words. Glosses are often used as a textual description of signs when transcribing Sign Language video data. For a machine translation system from German to German Sign Language we apply glosses as an intermediate notational system. Then the automatic generation from given German word...