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Different shades of the collective way of thinking: Vietnamese and Chinese international students' reflection on academic writing

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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ly TranLy Tran
Investigating ELF/ESL students' experiences in constructing their academic written texts seems to be of great significance in EFL/ESL writing syllabus design and teaching. The case study reported in this paper explores the underlying factors which shape students' ways of supporting ideas in academic essays in English. Drawing on Lillis' (2001) framework for exploring student writing, the study examines the writing experiences of students from Vietnam and mainland China at an Australian university. Based on the students' reflection on their different ways of meaning making, this paper argues for the need to challenge the tendency to essentialize cultural rhetoric patterns and their effects upon Chinese and Vietnamese students' writing in English as a foreign or second language. Several implications for teaching EFL/ESL writing have also been drawn from the findings of this study.

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Journal

Journal of Asia TEFL

Volume

3

Issue

3

Season

Autumn

Pagination

121 - 141

Publisher

Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

Location

Delhi, India

ISSN

1738-3102

Language

eng

Publication classification

C3.1 Non-refereed articles in a professional journal

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