Knowledge of English academic words
07 July 2020
Academic words are used more often in academic speaking and writing irrespective of research discipline than in non-academic settings. This project examines the knowledge that Mandarin-Chinese native speaker and British English native speaker undergraduate university students have about English academic words. You will take a gap-fill test of English academic words, a multiple-choice test of English general words and you will fill in a questionnaire on your language learning history.
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Ethical approval
This study received ethical approval by the ethics officer of the Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex on 2 November 2016.