Jing Wei

Theme and Thematic Progression in Chinese College Students' English Essays

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This book focuses on how instruction affects English learners' use of Theme and thematic progression (thematic organization). While thematic organization in learner English has been extensively studied, little research has been done to investigate the effects of instruction on the use of Theme and thematic progression. Adopting a Systemic Functional Grammar approach, this study explores how a ten-week instruction on thematic organization affects Chinese college students' use of Theme and thematic progression by comparing their English essays before and after the instruction, with native-speaker essays as the research baseline. Second-language… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-981-10-0254-0
EAN: 9789811002540
Produktnummer: 19288099
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 191 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'522 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: 10 schwarz-weiße und 16 farbige Abbildungen, 95 schwarz-weiße und 16 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Jing Wei is an associate professor in College of International Studies at Southwest University, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics. She has been teaching English as a foreign language for 17 years. Her research interests include second language acquisition, English for specific purposes and foreign language teacher development.