Cultural and linguistic variation in academic writing
An investigation of linguistic and cultural variation in the understanding and execution of academic writing tasks
This study investigates the conceptualisation and execution of macro-textual features of academic writing of students in an EAP course. An assumption is that students have difficulties in producing academic writing. The study investigates participant''s conceptualisation of academic writing and compares it to what they do in constructing their own academic texts. It finds that there is a difference between what they say and what they do. Their focus is generally on micro-textual level, i.e. on the level of words, phrases and sentences, which masks difficulties on macro-textual level, i.e. on the discursive level of linguistic unit…
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Weitere Autoren: Anthonissen, Christine
- ISBN: 978-3-8383-3850-7
- EAN: 9783838338507
- Produktnummer: 37834491
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.5 cm 149 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 149
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Helena Zybrands is a lecturer at the Language Centre of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has taught English as a foreign language since 1996. Her special interest lies in academic writing development. Christine Anthonissen (Department of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University) was Helena''s supervisor for this project.
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