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Metadiscourse repertoire of L1 Mandarin undergraduates writing in English : a cross-contextual, cross-disciplinary study
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Li, Ting and Wharton, Sue (2012) Metadiscourse repertoire of L1 Mandarin undergraduates writing in English : a cross-contextual, cross-disciplinary study. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Vol.11 (No.4). pp. 345-356. doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2012.07.004 ISSN 1878-1497.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2012.07.004
Abstract
This article presents a qualitative, comparative study of metadiscourse in the academic writing of two groups of undergraduate students working in two different disciplines. The groups of students were: 1) Native speakers of Mandarin studying in China through the medium of English; 2) Native speakers of Mandarin studying in the UK through the medium of English. For each group of students, we examined writing undertaken in two undergraduate disciplinary courses: Literary Criticism and Translation Studies. Our aim was to extend research into English writing by L1 Mandarin speakers, and to identify patterns of difference and similarity both between educational contexts and between disciplines. Results suggest that patterns of metadiscourse use in our corpus are associated with both disciplinary and contextual factors, but that contextual factors may have a stronger effect than disciplinary factors. For our data, local institutional culture seems to have a noticeable influence on student writers' use of metadiscourse.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Academic writing | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of English for Academic Purposes | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd | ||||
ISSN: | 1878-1497 | ||||
Official Date: | December 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.11 | ||||
Number: | No.4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 345-356 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jeap.2012.07.004 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 December 2015 |
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