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‘Dearest beloved one, I need your assistance’: The rhetoric of spam mail

Viswamohan, Aysha Iqbal; Hadfield, Jill; Hadfield, Charles (ELT Journal, 2010)

The article offers an overview of strategies deployed by spammers in the Dearly beloved e-mail genre, analyzes the rhetoric of spam mail and considers its implications for teaching and research particularly into English ...
The effect of Chinese ESL learners’ beliefs on their autonomous learning

Zhong, Qunyan (SiSAL Journal, 2010)

What beliefs do Chinese learners hold about language learning? What is the effect of these beliefs on their autonomous learning? These are the two questions that this study aims to address. I employed naturalistic inquiry ...
Learning and assessing for future imagined communities: Academic writing texts within portfolios

Romova, Zina; Andrew, Martin (2010 Tertiary Writing Network Colloquium, 2010)

How can first year, tertiary-level EAL academic writing programmes for adult learners use both portfolio assessment and emerging understandings about the importance of discourse community and imagined communities to target ...