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Academic Writing and Chinese Students: Transfer and Developmental Factors by Bernard A. Mohan; Winnie Au-Yeung Lo is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Academic Writing and Chinese Students: Transfer and Developmental Factors about?
Organizational problems in academic writing by second language learners are often attributed to interference, or negative transfer, from the first language, but recent research suggests that developmental factors may be relevant. In the case of Chinese, an examination of classical texts and modern works on Chinese composition found no support for claims that the organizational pattern of Chinese writing differs markedly from that of English. Hence, language transfer seems more likely to help than to interfere. In regard to developmental factors, research in first language composition indicates that organization develops late and can be influenced by appropriate composition practices. For the group of Chinese students studied, a comparison of composition practices in Hong Kong and British Columbia indicated that their school experience with English composition was oriented more toward accuracy at the sentence level than toward the development of appropriate discourse organization. A survey of these students also suggested that they saw their current writing problems as sentence-level problems. These findings point to a need for greater awareness of students' native literacy and educ
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- Author
- Bernard A. Mohan; Winnie Au-Yeung Lo
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)