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531. Hyon, S. (2011). Evaluation in Tenure and Promotion Letters: Constructing Faculty as Communicators, Stars, and Workers, Applied Linguistics, 32(4): 389-407. doi:10.1093/applin/amr003
Location:
United States
Type of subjects/data: letters
No. of subjects/data: 95
Instruments:
Method of analysis: inductive discourse analysis (Barton, 2002)
- rich features in the letter were identified: positive evaluative lexis, negative evaluative discourse
Other aspects:
Research design:
Discourse research
Level of detail: High

Keywords:
evaluative language, letter, inductive discourse analysis


532. Littlemore, J., Chen, P.T., Koester, A. and Barnden, J. (2011). Difficulties in Metaphor Comprehension Faced by International Students whose First Language is not English, Applied Linguistics, 32(4): 408-429. doi:10.1093/applin/amr009
Location:
United Kingdom
Type of subjects/data: students
No. of subjects/data: 20
Instruments: Task/ activity, Test
Method of analysis: - proportions of metaphorical items among students' problematic items and lexical familiar problematic items were calcuated
- student metaphor interpretations were classified either as valid or problematic
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail: High

Keywords:
UK, metaphor comprehension


533. Wolter, B. and Gyllstad, H. (2011). Collocational Links in the L2 Mental Lexicon and the Influence of L1 Intralexical Knowledge, Applied Linguistics, 32(4): 430-449. doi:10.1093/applin/amr011
Location:
Sweden
Type of subjects/data: L1 Swedish participants, native speakers of English
No. of subjects/data: 31, 37
Instruments: Test, Questionnaire
Method of analysis: test scores in 3 collocational conditions were compared using: descriptive statistics, ANOVA, MANOVA
Other aspects: - a primed lexical decision task (LDT)
- DMDX software (test)
- COLLMATCH (Gyllstad, 2007)
Research design:
Level of detail: Medium

Keywords:
collocation


534. Mulder, K. and Hulstijn, J.H. (2011). Linguistic Skills of Adult Native Speakers, as a Function of Age and Level of Education, Applied Linguistics, 32(5): 475-494. doi:10.1093/applin/amr016
Location:
Netherlands
Type of subjects/data: native speakers of Dutch
No. of subjects/data: 98
Instruments: Task/ activity, Test
Method of analysis: - communicative adequacy was rated
- linguistic features i.e. number of words, T-units, words/T-unit, content words/T-unit, hesitations/T-unit, grammatical errors/T-unit were measured
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail: High

Keywords:
lexical skills, speaking proficiency, lexical knowledge, lexical fluency, lexical working memory


535. Kormos, J., Kiddle, T. and Csizér, K. (2011). Systems of Goals, Attitudes, and Self-related Beliefs in Second-Language-Learning Motivation, Applied Linguistics, 32(5): 495-516. doi:10.1093/applin/amr019
Location:
Chile
Type of subjects/data: students
No. of subjects/data: 518
Instruments: Rating scale
Method of analysis: multi-group structural-equation modeling (SEM)
Other aspects: AMOS 4.0 software
Research design:
Survey research
Level of detail: High

Keywords:
SLA, language learning motivation, structural equation models, SEM


536. Luzón, M.J. (2011). ‘Interesting Post, But I Disagree’: Social Presence and Antisocial Behaviour in Academic Weblogs, Applied Linguistics, 32(5): 517-540, doi:10.1093/applin/amr021
Location:
Spain
Type of subjects/data: postings/academic weblogs
No. of subjects/data: 11
Instruments:
Method of analysis: - indicators of social presence and rule behaviour were identified
- all the occurrences of indicators in the postings were coded by 2 researchers
Other aspects: categories of discursive indicators of social and antisocial behaviour
Research design:
Corpus-based research
Level of detail: Medium

Keywords:
weblogs, interaction, discursive features, interpersonal behaviour, CMC


537. Soler-Monreal, C., Carbonell-Olivares, M., Gil-Salom, L. (2011). A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions, English for Specific Purposes, 30(1), 4-17.
Location:
Spain
Type of subjects/data: theses
No. of subjects/data: 20
Instruments:
Method of analysis: move and step analysis
Other aspects:
Research design:
Discourse research
Level of detail: Low

Keywords:
Contrastive rhetoric; Intercultural rhetoric; Genre analysis; Doctoral thesis; Introduction; Academic writing; Computing


538. Pérez-Llantadaa, C., Plo, R., Ferguson, G.R. (2011). “You don’t say what you know, only what you can”: The perceptions and practices of senior Spanish academics regarding research dissemination in English. English for Specific Purposes, 30(1), 18–30.
Location:
Spain
Type of subjects/data: Senior Spanish academics
No. of subjects/data: 10
Instruments: Interview
Method of analysis: content analysis
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail: Medium

Keywords:
ESP; English Lingua Franca; Non-Anglophone scholars; Language needs; ESP language policies


539. Gray, B. and Cortes, V. (2011). Perception vs. evidence: An analysis of this and these in academic prose, English for Specific Purposes, 30(1), 31–43.
Location:
United States
Type of subjects/data: a corpus of research articles
No. of subjects/data: 100,000 words
Instruments: Concordancer
Method of analysis: - each occurrence of this/these was coded as a pronoun or a determiner
- frequencies and percentage were calculated
- pronominal instances of this/these were analysed for their grammatical role in the sentence
- uses of this/these as demonstrative determiners were analysed
Other aspects:
Research design:
Corpus-based research
Level of detail: High

Keywords:
Corpus Linguistics; Demonstratives; Cohesion; Prescriptivism versus descriptivism; Disciplinary writing; English for Academic Purposes


540. Kuteeva, M. (2011). Wikis and academic writing: Changing the writer–reader relationship, English for Specific Purposes, 30(1), 44–57.
Location:
Sweden
Type of subjects/data: texts and essays
No. of subjects/data: 7, 14
Instruments: Observation, Questionnaire
Method of analysis: texts on the wiki were examined for reader-oriented features and interactional metadiscourse resources
Other aspects: AntConc, a corpus analysis tools
Research design:
Case study
Level of detail: Low

Keywords:
Wikis; English for Academic Purposes; L2 writing; Collaborative writing; Metadiscourse


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