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Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing

Online corpora as valuable resources have received considerable attention in teaching English for academic purposes (EAP). The current study investigated ESL participants’ perception of using online concordancers and other reference resources in their academic writing outside the classroom context,...

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Main Authors: Abd Samad, Arshad, Shakibkotamjani, Sedigheh, Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar, Heidari, Marjan, Panah, Ebrahim
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Published: Conscientia Beam 2020
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87108/
https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/73/issue/view/244
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spelling my.upm.eprints.871082024-05-06T07:41:31Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87108/ Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing Abd Samad, Arshad Shakibkotamjani, Sedigheh Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar Heidari, Marjan Panah, Ebrahim Online corpora as valuable resources have received considerable attention in teaching English for academic purposes (EAP). The current study investigated ESL participants’ perception of using online concordancers and other reference resources in their academic writing outside the classroom context, after some initial hands-on practice in the classroom. The researcher designed an online interface and included multiple reference resources such as concordancers, thesaurus, online dictionaries and Google as the main search engine. This study used a qualitative case study approach through conducting semi-structured interviews and stimulated recall to achieve in-depth descriptions of the participants’ perceptions of corpus consultation. The findings revealed that the process of corpus consultation is time-consuming; however, the multiple resources assisted the participants to experience new ways of encoding their intended meanings. They became more attentive to the accuracy and appropriacy of the language they use to convey their intended meaning. It was found that not only did reference resource consultation raise participants’ awareness of the lexico-grammatical aspects, but also increased their confidence in academic writing. Conscientia Beam 2020 Article PeerReviewed Abd Samad, Arshad and Shakibkotamjani, Sedigheh and Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar and Heidari, Marjan and Panah, Ebrahim (2020) Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing. Humanities and Social Science Letters, 8 (3). 331 - 341. ISSN 2312-5659; ESSN: 2312-4318 https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/73/issue/view/244 10.18488/journal.73.2020.83.331.341
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description Online corpora as valuable resources have received considerable attention in teaching English for academic purposes (EAP). The current study investigated ESL participants’ perception of using online concordancers and other reference resources in their academic writing outside the classroom context, after some initial hands-on practice in the classroom. The researcher designed an online interface and included multiple reference resources such as concordancers, thesaurus, online dictionaries and Google as the main search engine. This study used a qualitative case study approach through conducting semi-structured interviews and stimulated recall to achieve in-depth descriptions of the participants’ perceptions of corpus consultation. The findings revealed that the process of corpus consultation is time-consuming; however, the multiple resources assisted the participants to experience new ways of encoding their intended meanings. They became more attentive to the accuracy and appropriacy of the language they use to convey their intended meaning. It was found that not only did reference resource consultation raise participants’ awareness of the lexico-grammatical aspects, but also increased their confidence in academic writing.
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author Abd Samad, Arshad
Shakibkotamjani, Sedigheh
Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar
Heidari, Marjan
Panah, Ebrahim
spellingShingle Abd Samad, Arshad
Shakibkotamjani, Sedigheh
Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar
Heidari, Marjan
Panah, Ebrahim
Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
author_facet Abd Samad, Arshad
Shakibkotamjani, Sedigheh
Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar
Heidari, Marjan
Panah, Ebrahim
author_sort Abd Samad, Arshad
title Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
title_short Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
title_full Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
title_fullStr Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
title_full_unstemmed Perceptions of ESL students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
title_sort perceptions of esl students about using web-concordancing and language reference resources in academic writing
publisher Conscientia Beam
publishDate 2020
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87108/
https://archive.conscientiabeam.com/index.php/73/issue/view/244
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