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Location:	Taiwan
Type of subjects/data:	corpora
No. of subjects/data:	2
Instruments:	Concordancer
Method of analysis:	tokens and lexical coverage of each of the BNC word lists for the business textbooks and research articles were calculated
Other aspects:	- RANGE program (Nation and Heatley, 2002) - 14 BNC 1000 word lists plus proper nouns and marginal words embeded with the RANGE were used to identify the vocabulary level
Research design:	Corpus-based research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Lexical coverage; Vocabulary levels; British National Corpus (BNC)

Location:	Spain
Type of subjects/data:	research articles
No. of subjects/data:	28
Instruments:	Concordancer
Method of analysis:	- move and step analysis - analysis of the metadiscoursal features in the moves
Other aspects:	- CARS model - Hyland's model of metadiscourse - WordSmith Tools 5.0
Research design:	Discourse research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Research articles; Introductions; Interactive and interactional metadiscourse; Agricultural Sciences

Location:	Taiwan
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	52
Instruments:	Questionnaire, Interview, Observation
Method of analysis:	learner strategies and language performance in group and individual presentations were investigated - mean, sd, paired-sample t test, effec size (eta squared statistic)
Other aspects:	questionnaire
Research design:
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Learner strategy; Oral presentation; Cooperative learning; EAP; EFL

Location:	Hong Kong
Type of subjects/data:	academic homepages
No. of subjects/data:	100
Instruments:	Interview
Method of analysis:	texts, visual design and hyperlinks of academic homepages and email interviews data were analysed in terms of what is said about the self and how it is presented
Other aspects:	Nvivo 8
Research design:
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Homepages; Identity; Academic discourse; Multimodal texts; Corporate branding

Location:	Italy
Type of subjects/data:	textbooks
No. of subjects/data:	10
Instruments:
Method of analysis:	textual organisation, the rhetorical patterns of argumentative discourse, and other interactional metadiscousal resources in both English and Italian language model texts were analysed
Other aspects:
Research design:	Discourse research
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
Legal discourse; Legal genre; Academic community; Professional community

Location:	Sweden
Type of subjects/data:	teachers
No. of subjects/data:	605
Instruments:	Questionnaire, Interview
Method of analysis:	- frequency, percentage - Spearman correlation - Cluster analysis
Other aspects:	- a repertory grid interview - Sci: vesco repgrid analysis
Research design:	Survey research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Foreign language assessment; FL grading; Alternative assessment; Student self-assessment; Personal construct psychology

Location:	Canada
Type of subjects/data:	students, teachers
No. of subjects/data:	42, 2
Instruments:	Task/ activity, Test
Method of analysis:	- the oral interactions were transcribed - erroneous utterances, the feedback in response to those utterances, and the learners' possible repair of those utterances following feedback were identified - errors that occurred in both learners' written and oral descriptions were identified - the immediate and the delayed post-interaction correction tasks were examined
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
Interactional feedback; Modified output; Learner repair; Learner uptake; Recasts; Elicitations; Focus on form; Second language acquisition; L2 interaction; Corrective feedback

Location:	Iran
Type of subjects/data:	content teachers, EAP teachers, graduate students, undergraduate students
No. of subjects/data:	15, 10, 15, 180
Instruments:	Questionnaire, Test, Interview, Observation
Method of analysis:	data were coded and analysed using descriptive statistics e.g. tabulation, frequencies and percentage, mean, sd, variance
Other aspects:	the reliability and validity check of the questionnaire: non-parametric inferential tests e.g. Kruskall Wallis, Mann Whitney U Cronbach's Alpha, Factor analysis
Research design:	Survey research
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
Discipline-based EAP; Reading comprehension needs; Triangulation; Health information management

Location:	Turkey
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	38
Instruments:	Task/ activity, Test
Method of analysis:	- all the tests were scored - scores for the control and the experimantal groups were compared using descriptive and inferential statistics e.g. mean, sd, percentage, ANOVA, posthoc Scheffe test
Other aspects:
Research design:	Quasi-experimental research
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
Processing instruction; Input processing; English passive; Transfer of training

Location:	Canada
Type of subjects/data:	native English speaking teachers
No. of subjects/data:	3
Instruments:	Discussion, Interview
Method of analysis:	inductive data analysis to get emergent patterns and themes
Other aspects:
Research design:	Qualitative research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Identity; Reflection; Teacher development group; Professional development