Chinese Students' Writing in English - Implications from a corpus-driven study (Hardcover)

Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges faced. Drawing on the British Academic Written English corpus - a large corpus of undergraduate student writing collected in the UK in the early 2000s - this book explores Chinese students' written assignments in English, contrasting these with assignments from British students in a range of university disciplines. The corpus is supplemented by questionnaire feedback, semi-structured and text-based interviews and observational material from classrooms in the China and UK, all of which build towards a comprehensive picture of the Chinese student writer in the UK today. The book is theoretically framed through work within academic literacies, lexical priming and formulaic language to provide a fresh perspective on student writing in the twenty-first century.The author seeks to explore Chinese students' writing and to use these findings to inform pedagogical recommendations for Higher Education teachers in general and teachers of Chinese students in particular, arguing that in a globalized educational environment it is important for educators to understand differences in writing styles across the student body. This book will be primarily of interest to researchers, EAP tutors and university lecturers teaching Chinese students in the UK, China, and other English or Chinese-speaking countries.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Education
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Maria Leedham
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-85854-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	0-415-85854-2
Barcode:	9780415858540

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