An Exploration of Undergraduates Writing Motivational Strategies
The development of SRL strategies is an important challenge for teachers and learners in the context of academic writing. In addition, research in the essential field of academic writing is lacking, which adheres to traditional teaching methods and techniques for language teaching. The current study tends to fill the gap by exploring the undergraduates writing motivational strategies and gender differences. This project aims to analyze the contextual factors, including the cultural impact of their choice of techniques used in English writing tasks. Data was collected via self-reported questionnaires on motivational writing strategies (Teng & Zhang, 2015). The results revealed mixed findings in the use of motivational writing strategies and gender disparities concerning motivational techniques.
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Motivational Strategies, Writing Strategies, Academic Writing
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(1) Samreen Zaheer
PhD. Scholar, Air University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Wasima Shehzad
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Air University Islamabad, Pakistan.
Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles
The current research explores the linguistic identity of Pakistani Academic writing register of Research Articles. Previous quantitative works on Pakistani academic writing have been insufficient due to unrepresentative data and lack of internal and external comparison. This study discovers the language of Pakistani research articles as an academic writing register by investigating the statistically significant linguistic variation among the disciplines of Pakistani Research articles, using Biber’s (1988) five textual dimensions. The results of the study exhibit Pakistani academic research articles language as highly impersonal, non-persuasive, explicit, nonnarrative and informational.
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Pakistani English, Register Variation, Research Articles, Academic Writing, Multidimensional Analysis
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(1) Aniqa Rashid
Assistant Professor, National University of Modern Languages Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Asim Mahmood
Professor, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Error Analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement in Bs English Students’ Writing: A Case Study
This study investigates subject-verb agreement errors in academic writing by BS English students, aiming to enhance their writing proficiency. Despite learning grammatical rules like subject-verb agreement, students frequently struggle to apply these rules correctly. Using a mixed-method approach, data was collected both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed four types of errors: subject-verb agreement of person (SV1), number (SV2), subject (SV3), and coordinated subject (SV4). No errors were observed for notional agreement and proximity (SV5). Errors in SV1, representing a person's simple subject-verb agreement, were the most frequent. The dominant source of these errors was identified as intralingual factors. The study concludes by offering practical solutions to help students and educators address these challenges effectively, contributing to improved academic writing skills for BS English learners.
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Subject-Verb Agreement, BS English Students, Academic Writing Errors, Intralingual Factors
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(1) Hasan Ayaz
MPhil, Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Air University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Zubaria Waheed
Graduate, Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Air University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Zain ul Hassan
MPhil, Department of English Linguistics and Literature, Air University Islamabad, Pakistan.