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McNamara, Tim; Morton, Janne; Storch, Neomy; Thompson, Celia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
This article addresses the suitability of the CEFR as the basis for decisions about the readiness of individuals to engage in academic writing tasks in undergraduate university courses, and as a guide to progress. The CEFR offers potentially relevant general scales and subscales, but also more specific subscales for writing in the academic…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse
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Thompson, Celia; Morton, Janne; Storch, Neomy – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The need to establish an authorial identity in academic discourse has been considered to be critical for all doctoral students by academic writing teachers and researchers for some time. For students for whom English is an additional language (EAL) in particular, the challenges are not only how to communicate this identity effectively in English,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Graduate Students, Authors, Academic Discourse
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Thompson, Celia; Morton, Janne; Storch, Neomy – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2013
Knowing how to use sources effectively often poses considerable challenges for first year undergraduate students for whom English is a second language (L2). In this longitudinal case study we investigated the selection and self-reported use of source materials by thirteen first year L2 undergraduate students from a range of disciplines enrolled at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Citations (References)