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Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference 2021

Japanese university students’ lexical diversity development in essay writing through theme-based instruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2021

Naoya Shibata
Naoya Shibata*
Affiliation:
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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Language Teaching , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , October 2021 , pp. 583 - 586
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This poster session reports on findings from a mixed-methods research study with 45 intermediate English proficiency level Japanese sophomore students (seven males and 38 females) to explore the effect of theme-based instruction on their lexical diversity in academic essay writing.

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