Leedham, M. (2015). Chinese Students’ Writing in English: Implications from a Corpus-Driven Study. Abingdon: Routledge.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2014 Taylor & Francis |
| ISBN: | 0-415-85854-2, 978-0-415-85854-0 |
| Keywords: | Chinese students; corpus linguistics; student writing; tertiary education; university assignments; academic writing; assessed writing; multimodality; disciplinary differences |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Language & Literacies Health and Wellbeing PRA (Priority Research Area) |
| Item ID: | 40581 |
| Depositing User: | Maria Leedham |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2014 11:48 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2017 15:39 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/40581 |
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