Search Results - Doudja Slougui

Essay writing assessment is a largely used test in many examination types. Preferred fortheir “validity and authenticity” (Hamp-Lyons, 2003:163), direct writing tests are prevailing in entrance, placement examinations, as well as in continuous assessment. However, when compared to indirect writing...

Full description

Research article writing is a critical issue for many non-English speaking scientists. If an article fails to meet the scientific community expectations, it is likely to get rejected. Recent research in applied linguistics and other fields has reported the existence of conventions that govern the re...

Full description

The issue of scholarly publications written by Non-Native Speakers (henceforth NNS) has, over the last decade, attracted the interest and concern of a great number of researchers. They have sought to find out the reasons that lie behind the rejection of papers by academic journals and editorial boa...

Full description

This paper aims at examining the use of hedging by Algerian scientists in the research article genre. To this end, a corpus of 31 articles, extracted from 5 Algerian locally published journals in the field of biology was analysed in terms of type, frequency and distribution of hedges across the res...

Full description