Fiona Hyland

List of John Benjamins publications for which Fiona Hyland plays a role.

Articles

Writing at the doctoral level presents many challenges for second language writers. This paper reports on a longitudinal study investigating English as a second language (ESL) doctoral students’ writing problems and the strategies they developed to meet these challenges. Eight students were… read more
Hyland, Ken and Fiona Hyland 2012 Chapter 3. ‘You could make this clearer’: Teachers’ advice on ESL academic writingAdvice in Discourse, Limberg, Holger and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Chapter
The comments students receive on their written work are one of the most ubiquitous forms of advice found in educational settings, and this advice takes on even greater importance in second language classrooms. This study is based on a small corpus of feedback given by two teachers to six ESL… read more
This chapter uses a case study approach to look at students’ and teacher’s perceptions of the language learning potential of form-focused feedback on writing. It explores the ways in which motivated students used form-focused feedback on their writing by purposefully exploiting the opportunities… read more