Working with Text and Around Text in Foreign Language Environments

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Principles of Task Design in Reading for Polish Learners of English as a Foreign Language....Pages 3-24
Mental Model Theories in Reading Research and Instruction....Pages 25-37
On Texts Interesting to Read in Foreign Language Teaching....Pages 39-55
The Learning Potential of Study Questions in TEFL Textbooks....Pages 57-73
Learner Perception of Academic Register at the Undergraduate Level....Pages 75-87
Assessment of Language Learners’ Spoken Texts: Overview of Key Issues....Pages 89-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
“In This Paper I Will Prove …”: The Challenge Behind Authorial Self-Representation in L2 Undergraduate Research Paper Writing....Pages 109-123
Creating Academic Text: The Use of Lexical Syntagms by L2 Undergraduate Students of English....Pages 125-141
The Use of Citations in Research Articles Written by Polish and English Native-Speaker Writers....Pages 143-157
Creating Texts Together—Collaborative Writing in Polish Secondary School....Pages 159-172
Gap-Filling in English as L2 as a Form of Text Construction Using Contextual Cues....Pages 173-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Texts as Vocabulary Networks....Pages 193-204
Applying Corpus Linguistics and Conversation Analysis in the Investigation of Small Group Teaching in Higher Education....Pages 205-222
Language Teachers Working with Text: Increasing Target Language Awareness of Student Teachers with Do-It-Yourself Corpus Research....Pages 223-240
Meaning-Making Practices in EFL Classes in Private and State Schools: Classroom Interaction and Bilingualism Policy in Colombia....Pages 241-257
L1 Use in the Foreign Language Primary Classroom—Pre-service Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices....Pages 259-272
Should We Blame Machine Translation for the Inadequacy of English? A Study on the Vocabulary of Family and Relationships....Pages 273-288