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Direct linkLi, Yongyan – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2012
English as an Additional Language (EAL) students' textual borrowing in disciplinary writing has attracted wide research interest in recent years. However, much of the research was conducted in the regular curriculum setting while the relevance of the issue in a writing-for-publication context has largely been overlooked. In particular,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Biochemistry, Writing for Publication
Lee, David Y. W.; Chen, Sylvia Xiao – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
In many mainland Chinese universities, undergraduate students specializing in English language and applied linguistics are required to write a dissertation, in English, of about 5000 words exploring some aspect of original research. This is a task which is of considerable difficulty not only at the genre or discourse level but also at the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Writing (Composition)
Flowerdew, John; Li, Yongyan – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2009
Within a global trend of the anglicization of academic publishing, in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) publication in indigenous languages, nevertheless, in many contexts, continues to thrive. Given that the overall anglicization of academic publishing tends to be negotiated at the local level, this study seeks to discover how a…
Descriptors: Faculty Publishing, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Humanities
Lei, Xiao – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2008
In contrast to the traditional cognitive view of writing strategies, this study explores English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing strategy use within the Activity Theory framework, adding to the growing body of writing strategy research and sociocultural research on writing and second language acquisition (SLA). Drawing on data…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Writing Strategies, Writing Processes, Writing Research
Gebhard, Meg; Demers, Jan; Castillo-Rosenthal, Zoe – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2008
The authors describe the professional development of L1 and L2 teachers from a comprehensive theoretical perspective that focuses on literacy as a critical social practice, the construction of student/teacher knowledge, and institutional forces that support and/or constrain the academic literacy development of L2 students in the United States. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Literacy
Cheng, An – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2006
Academic criticism is defined in this paper as a statement which reflects a discrepancy between the stance of a researcher/author, on the one hand, and that of another researcher or the discourse community as a whole, on the other (Salager-Meyer & Alcaraz Ariza, 2003). Despite researchers' awareness of the potential difficulty academic criticism…
Descriptors: Researchers, Discourse Communities, Criticism, Literacy
