Second language writer's text linguistic and rhetorical features /
This analysis of second language writers' text identifies where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts.
| Main Author: | Hinkel, Eli. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Mahwah, N.J. :
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2002.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xx, 370 pages). |
| Series: |
ESL and applied linguistics professional series.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
This analysis of second language writers' text identifies where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and indexes. Foreword / Robert B. Kaplan -- Background: Research in Text and Written Discourse -- Writing as Text -- Theoretical Underpinnings and Research Trends -- Contrastive Rhetoric -- Text Linguistics -- Corpus Analyses -- Critical Discourse Analysis -- Research in Academic and ESL Written Discourse and Text -- Features of Student Essay Writing -- Written Discourse and Text in Different Rhetorical Traditions -- Written Discourse and Text in Non-Anglo-American Rhetoric -- Learning the Norms of L2 Academic Discourse -- Goals and Politics of Teaching ESL Writing -- Importance of L2 Learners in the Academy -- English Composition for Native Speakers -- L2 Writing Instruction for Non-Native Speakers -- Process-Centered Teaching Center Stage -- Content-Based Instruction for Writing in the Disciplines -- Outcomes -- Crux of the Issue -- Curricula in L2 College-Level Writing/Composition Courses -- Study of Features of Second Language Text: Essays, the Data, and Methods of Analysis -- Present Study -- First and Second Language Essays and the Data -- Methods of Data Analysis -- Common Linguistic and Rhetorical Features of Academic ESL Text -- Nouns, Pronouns, and Nominals and Their Functions and Uses in Text -- Semantic and Lexical Classes of Nouns -- Personal Pronouns (and Contractions) -- Nominals -- Verb Phrase and Deverbals and Their Functions and Uses in Text -- Tenses -- Aspects -- Semantic and Lexical Classes of Verbs -- Modal Verbs -- Passive Voice (+By-Phrase) -- Be-Copula as the Main Verb -- Infinitives. This analysis of second language writers' text identifies where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xx, 370 pages). |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
0585395241 9780585395241 1410602842 9781410602848 9780805838886 9780805840339 0805840338 0805838880 9781135646547 1135646546 9781135646493 113564649X 9781135646530 1135646538 1282324306 9781282324305 9786612324307 6612324309 |