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Direct linkSchmied, Josef; Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This contribution discusses problems of students' academic writing in Africa. It sketches the wide field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and argues that reference, coherence and complexity are key concepts for evaluating student writing at university level. It uses material from African corpora to substantiate this claim and to illustrate…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedNkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This contribution assesses in quantitative terms frequent collocates and major senses of "between" and "through" in the corpus of Cameroonian English (CCE), the corpus of East-African (Kenya and Tanzania) English which is part of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project (ICE-EA), and the London Oslo/Bergen (LOB) corpus of British English.…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
This contribution investigates the frequency patterns of the modal verbs as they occur in the one-million-word corpus of Cameroon written English. An analysis of dominant senses of some of the modals is also attempted. I have used results and statistical figures from British and American English (as reported in studies such as Biber et al. 1999…
Descriptors: Verbs, Foreign Countries, North American English, Language Usage
