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ERIC Number: EJ1010335
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-May
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0007-1013
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A Web-Based EFL Writing Environment as a Bridge between Academic Advisers and Junior Researchers: A Pilot Study
Reynolds, Barry Lee
British Journal of Educational Technology, v44 n3 pE77-E80 May 2013
In the age of "publish or perish," publishing academic journal articles is a must, not only for professors but also for graduate students in Taiwan. Increasingly, Taiwanese research universities are requiring masters and PhD students to write theses and dissertations in English, with an added caveat for PhD students to publish two or more articles in high-impact factor English language journals. Non-Anglophone writers, especially first-language Chinese speakers, consider themselves to be at a disadvantage for a number of reasons (Flowerdew, 1999). Research has shown one source of the difficulty lies in not being a part of the discourse community for which they are required to write (Flowerdew, 2000). Furthermore, a lack of both content schemata (Carrell & Eisterhold, 1983) and the practice of writing beyond the sentence level (Mohan & Lo, 1985) leave many junior researchers feeling that they will never enjoy a level playing field when writing articles for publication. Professors that have received higher education in a country where English is the lingua franca may have benefited from a mentor-mentee relationship with their academic advisers and thus be able to provide a similar relationship for their advisees (Flowerdew, 1999). Nevertheless, professors' attempts at providing such a relationship are not always feasible in Taiwan, leaving many junior researchers struggling to meet graduation requirements. It is more common for academic advisers to restrict feedback to the marking of drafts, but because of the time necessary for marking written work, advisers often simply highlight incorrect turns of phrase while advisees reviewing their writing have difficulties recalling why they made those particular errors. As a possible solution, IWiLL 2.0 (http://cube.iwillnow.org/IWiLL/), a Web-based writing platform designed to aid teachers in providing electronic feedback on student writing, was used by an academic adviser to provide writing feedback to graduate students enrolled in an academic reading/writing course offered through a university English self-learning center. (Contains 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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