English for Academic Purposes

As teaching through technology keeps on developing, it is a reality that online teaching and learning is still an unexplored environment for some educators. Consequently, Routledge (n.d.) compiles a six-chapter book  from experts’ works in the field in order to present The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning : A Guide for Academic Professionals. The six chapters give tips and advice for online teaching and it is available free online. The purpose of this book critique is to express evaluative comments and critiquing the title in question. As regards the first chapter, Ko and Rossen (2010)  thoroughly compare the foundations of face-to-face and online learning. In addition, the authors present theoretical and practical information and address the audience with strong arguments, for instance, when they express it is the teachers’ responsibility to bear in mind the different roles and benefits of teaching online when devising their own course. However, some piec...

In-text citations and references lists are mutually significant aspects because each source cited in a paper must appear in the reference list and each entry in the reference list must be cited in the body of the text. According to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020), in-text citations follow different rules depending on the type. The author and the date of publication are specified in parentheses. In narrative citations, the author is included as part of the sentence, with the date of publication in parentheses. When directly quoting, apart from the author and the year of publication, the citation must include the page number using the abbreviation p . for one page or pp. for several pages. For APA 7th edition (2020), the reference list starts on a new page, and each entry in the reference list has a hanging indent. Also, it is arranged in alphabetical order of authors' surname s, a nd authors' first and middle names...

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Annotated Bibliography: Contributions of Corrective Feedback Yamashita, T. (2021). Corrective feedback in computer-mediated collaborative writing and revision contributions. Language Learning & Technology, 25(2), 75-93. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/73434 In the current study, Yamashita measures the effects of indirect corrective feedback (CF) during computer-mediated collaborative writing on grammatical accuracy. The study also aims to investigate how learners’ revision contributions predict their short and long-term learning. Through pretests and posttests with an innovative approach using animation description tasks, the author finds positive effects of CF in grammatical accuracy in later learners’ individual performance; as a result, the experimental group outperforms the comparison group. However, the research results are questionable since biographical variables, learners' proficiency, and peer interaction are not analyzed ; therefore, future research is encouraged. In spi...

Student A was a six-year-old first grader who came from Germany two years ago. He attended a teacher cooperative school in the city of Buenos Aires. That means that not only is a school but it is also a worker cooperative where all its workers take decisions through assemblies, vote and an administrative council. The cooperative structure as an organization and institution pervades the school's daily life, decisions, policies and classroom management. One of the school’s policies was and still is that students shouldn't bring pencil cases to school. Instead, learners are asked to take care of a box of materials as a group, cooperatively. One day, student A was colouring when he noticed the pink pencil in his table was missing. As a result, he resorted to asking another classmate sitting in another table if they could lend him the pink coloured pencil. Next, student B told student A to wait since a girl was colouring with the pink pencil and another girl was waiting to use it. T...