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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Tin, Tan Bee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
The paper proposes a new conceptual perspective for understanding students' engagement in L2 learning, in particular the concept of interest development in learning English. It investigates situational features that trigger interest in learning English, employing data from interviews with non-native English speaking students studying in TESOL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Interests, Interviews
Khan, Ajmal; Tin, Tan Bee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
An increasing number of researchers rely on genre to analyse academic and professional communication and to see how members of a discourse community use language. Since Swales' (1990) seminal genre analysis of research article introductions, many researchers have carried out genre analysis of various types of professional and academic documents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Styles, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage