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L2 Learners’ Argument Building for MA Essay Assignments: Analysis Through the Knowledge-telling Strategy
- Education
- 2021
For academic essay assignments in postgraduate education, second language (L2) students must be aware of critical reading and argument construction in an academic debate, as well as the academic…
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This article considers the notion of academic vocabulary: the assumption that students of English for academic purposes (EAP) should study a core of high frequency words because they are common in an…
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