Writing an Academic Paper in English: An Exploratory Study of Six Taiwanese Graduate Students - Softcover

Feng, Ho-ping

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838305329 ISBN 13: 9783838305325

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

With an increasingly higher number of ESL/EFL graduate students writing and publishing in English, writing researchers and teachers find it important to understand the student¿s process of writing academic papers. This book reports a study that investigated the composing processes of six Taiwanese graduate students writing an academic paper in English. To examine their cognitive processes and the affect factors involved in the writing processes, the researcher used the think- aloud procedure, retrospective interviews, the writing motivation and effort questionnaire, and the second language writing apprehension test.The results showed the three more skilled writers were different from the less skilled writers in that they employed more higher-level reading strategies, planned more substantially in the pre-writing phase, and performed more reviewing acts throughout the writing process. They were also found to have higher motivation and lower writing anxiety. This book provides useful information for researchers who are interested in research into the process of writing for academic purposes in the ESL/EFL context.

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About the Author

Ho-ping Feng, Ed. D; Studied TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Currently working as associate professor in the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838305329
• ISBN 13: 9783838305325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240