Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/mW8xbV Chinese Students' Writing in English Implications from a corpus-driven study By: Maria Leedham Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138290921, 1138290920 eText ISBN: 9781135100100, 1135100101 Edition: 1st Pages: 196 Copyright year: 2015 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781135100100R90 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. Additional ISBNs 9780203797488, 9781135100100, 9781135100032, 9781322093765, 9781135100179, 0203797485, 1135100101, 1135100039, 1322093768, 1135100179, 9780415858540, 0415858542
