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Record W4383225070 · doi:10.5539/elt.v16n8p1

Saudi Arabian University Students' Perspectives on Issues and Solutions in Academic Writing Learning

2023· article· en· W4383225070 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language Teaching · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicForeign Language Teaching Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAcademic writingPsychologyLiteral and figurative languageMathematics educationFace (sociological concept)ArabicEnglish for academic purposesProfessional writingAcademic yearLinguisticsPedagogy

Abstract

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EFL students confront a host of obstacles and challenges when it comes to academic writing, most notably those generated by the distinction between spoken and written English. In this regard, it is worth noting that Arabic differs significantly from English when it comes to both spoken and written versions. A number of variables drive these differences, including: 1) differences in the letters; and 2) differences in writing methods, with Arabic featuring more figurative phrases and longer sentences than English. There are various ways of teaching writing in academia; some are beneficial, like computerized writing instruction, whereas others, such as the usage of distinctive writing styles, are detrimental. Native speakers can help ESL students recognize the skills required for academic writing, enabling them to improve their academic writing. The study's goal was to determine the obstacles that students at a specific Saudi university encounter when studying written academic English, as well as to differentiate across their educational needs and aims. During the academic year 2020-2021, the research's group comprised 50 postgraduate students from one Saudi university. The data analysis showed that English as an additional language (EFL) students face many obstacles and underscores in their academic work, such as difficulties distinguishing between written and spoken English, generating a framework before writing a first draft, determining the abilities necessary to succeed in writing, and preventing plague words and phrases.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.386
Teacher spread0.348 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it