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Investigating student difficulties in English-medium secondary classes: A functional linguist and a science educator in collaboration 调查学生在以英语为媒介的中学课堂上的困难:一个功能语言学家和一个科学教育家的合作

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101315

Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Kwok-chi Lau

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101319

Xiaolong Cheng, Yan Liu, Zhe Wang

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A corpus-based study of signalling nouns in marketing and economics research articles 基于语料库的市场营销和经济学研究论文中信号名词研究

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101318

Hongmiao Gao , Chunmei Lu , Chunyu Hu

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101312

Ali Derakhshan, Javad Zare

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BALEAP news - Introduction to SIGs: Meet academic literacies (AL) SIG BALEAP新闻- SIG简介:满足学术素养(AL) SIG

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101309

Angelos Bakogiannis , Stefani Goga , Daniela Standen , Emily Downes , Anthony Flint

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101311

Hongyan Yang, Yonghua (Yoka) Wang

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101313

Lu Huang , Liping Chen

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Discoursing disciplinarity: A bibliometric analysis of published research in the past 30 years 话语纪律性:对近30年已发表研究的文献计量分析

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101317

Luda Liu, Yue Yuan, Zhongquan Du

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The rhetorical organization of discussions sections of qualitative research articles in Applied Linguistics and the use of meta-discourse markers 应用语言学定性研究文章讨论部分的修辞组织及元话语标记语的使用

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101310

Nasrin Ash’ari, Elyas Barabadi, Majid Elahi Shirvan

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What does it mean to construct an argument in academic writing? A synthesis of English for general academic purposes and English for specific academic purposes perspectives 在学术写作中构建论点意味着什么?综合一般学术英语和特定学术英语的观点

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Journal of English for Academic Purposes Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101307

Sachiko Yasuda

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