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Chinese Students' Writing in English: Implications from a corpus-driven study [Kõva köide]

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(The Open University, UK)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 196 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 408 g, 38 Tables, black and white; 24 Line drawings, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Research in Education
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Aug-2014
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415858542
  • ISBN-13: 9780415858540
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 196 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 408 g, 38 Tables, black and white; 24 Line drawings, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Research in Education
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Aug-2014
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415858542
  • ISBN-13: 9780415858540
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Märksõnad:
Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face. Drawing on the British Academic Written English corpus - a large corpus of proficient undergraduate student writing collected in the UK in the early 2000s - this study explores Chinese students written assignments in English in a range of university disciplines, contrasting these with assignments from British students. The study is supplemented by questionnaire and interview datasets with discipline lecturers, writing tutors and students, and provides a comprehensive picture of the Chinese student writer today.

Theoretically framed through work within academic literacies and lexical priming, the author seeks to explore what we know about Chinese students writing and to extend these findings to undergraduate writing more generally. In a globalized educational environment, it is important for educators to understand differences in writing styles across the student body, and to move from the widespread deficit model of student writing towards a descriptive model which embraces different ways of achieving success.

Chinese Students Writing in English will be of value to researchers, EAP tutors, and university lecturers teaching Chinese students in the UK, China, and other English or Chinese-speaking countries.

Arvustused

'This book provides valuable insights for applied linguistics researchers and students interested in corpus linguistics, lecturers in the disciplines who want to gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding the writing of Chinese students, and EAP/writing teachers.'

Ursula Wingate, Senior Lecturer in Language in Education, Kings College London, UK.

'Situated at a crossroads between learner corpus research and academic disciplinary writing research, and with the learner population representing a hybrid between a foreign- and a second-language learning situation, the study adds to our understanding of the challenges of native and non-native speakers alike when faced with the task of writing academic papers in English.'

Hilde Hasselgård, Professor, University of Oslo, Norway.

'This is a topical, yet relatively neglected, area of research to which this study has made a pertinent contribution.'

Jonathan Culbert, EAP tutor, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of abbreviations
xi
1 Introduction
1(16)
2 Contextualising Chinese students' literacy and language learning
17(23)
3 Features of Chinese students' writing in the corpus
40(23)
4 Variation across year groups
63(25)
5 Disciplinary influences: student writing in Biology, Economics and Engineering
88(26)
6 Discipline lecturer, writing tutor and university student perspectives
114(19)
7 Conclusions
133(14)
Appendix A ICLE, BAWE and IELTS titles 147(4)
Appendix B Additional datasets and questions 151(4)
Appendix C Keywords in Chi 123 155(4)
Appendix D Normalized and raw counts for
Chapter Four		 159(2)
Appendix E Keywords in Biology, Economics and Engineering 161(1)
Appendix F Useful websites 162(3)
References 165(13)
Index 178
Maria Leedham is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language Studies at the Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University, UK.