scholarly journals The Pedagogical Implications of Coherence in English Argumentative Discourse by Indonesian Professionals

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Katharina Rustipa
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Argumentative Discourse ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Complex Skills ◽  
English Articles ◽  
Writing Competence ◽  
Students Success

In this global era, all educated people, such as professionals and college students, need to have English writing skills. Writing competence will facilitate professionals’ success in their careers and students’ success in their studies. However, coherent writing is a complex task that requires complex skills and is therefore not easy. For manyIndonesian scientists, English scientific writing for international seminars or journals is likely still the hardest work (Suharno 2012). Based on the background above, this study investigated the coherence of English articles, such as argumentative discourses by Indonesian professionals. The study is descriptive and qualitative in nature. It applies both topical and paradigmatic analyses. The data of the study include 14 English articles found in the “Opinion Forum” of The Jakarta Post. The research results reveal that, for the most part, English argumentative discourses by Indonesian writers are developed only partly coherently. 

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Rhetorical Competence among Chinese and American College Students under the Same Teaching Background

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Ke Li
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
International Students ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
American University ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Writing Competence ◽  
Students Success

<p>It is observed that Chinese international students tend to be rhetorically incompetent, compared with their American peers, which triggers a comparative study of their rhetorical competence in the same teaching environment in the U.S. The experimental group and the control group are populated in 20 students respectively, the former group being 20 Chinese students who once major in English and communication in one Chinese famous university but now study in one American university, the latter being 20 American college students in the same class. They are selected to participate in tests of speech and writing competence. The result indicates that there is some discrepancy of speech competence between Chinese and American college students, as well as of writing competence, from which we gain some applications for the cultivation of rhetorical competence among foreign language learners in China, and some suggestions for Chinese international students’ success in American job market. </p>

scholarly journals Research on the Assessment System Construction of EAP Writing Skill from an Eco-linguistic Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Jinzhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
System Construction ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Ecological Dynamic ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Writing Competence ◽  
Process Strategy

This paper comes up with an assessment system of EAP writing development from an Eco-linguistic perspective based on a literature review of English writing construction and assessment of writing skills development under an ecological dynamic model. The paper clarifies that the writing construction in academic contexts consists of genre and rhetorical knowledge, process, strategy knowledge，and academic discourse community knowledge. The paper elucidates that the ecological dynamic assessment of EAP writing skills, as just being conducted at Tianjin Polytechnic University, has been proved to be workable in establishing bio-ecological links between the classroom learning contexts and the broader educational contexts at university. In the research, the individualized and comprehensive employment of assessment tools such as textual analysis，one-on-one interviews，case study and writing portfolios helps achieve dynamic assessment and facilitate ecological transfer of EAP writing competence.

scholarly journals A Study on the Improvement of English Writing Competence for College Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1344
Author(s):  
Xiu Zeng
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Writing Problems ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Writing Competence

English writing has long been viewed as a challenge to most Chinese college students because of their weak language foundation, limited expanse of ideas and inadequate targeted practice for the production of satisfactory written work. Attention has constantly been directed to the low efficiency in the writing teaching. By adopting some widely used approaches, this paper tries to explore efficient ways to integrate writing into the whole process of English learning and teaching. The focus of this paper is put on the suggested solutions to writing problems and the improvement in the efficiency of English writing learning and teaching.

A Survey on the Cultivation of College Students’ Audience Awareness in English Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1732
Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Lingyu Guo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Content Selection ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
The Status ◽  
Audience Awareness

The strength of audience awareness has a great influence on the content selection, expression and writing techniques of the article. Therefore, the cultivation of the students’ audience awareness in writing becomes one of the key factors that determine the qualities of the students’ compositions. This thesis conducts a questionnaire and interviews on college students from the four grades of Nanchang Normal University in order to reveal the college students’ cognitive status and attitude of audience awareness. Based on the status quo, this thesis analyzes the possible causes of this situation from two aspects: the teachers’ carelessness on audience awareness and overly concern with writing skills, and the students’ shortage of language ability and logical thinking ability and their excessive attention to writing skills. For these reasons, this thesis proposes corresponding countermeasures: in the English writing class, the reader's awareness should be emphasized; the theme of the article needs to be much closer to life; students are supposed to create imaginary readers in writing; the method of readers' feedback should be fully utilized. The use of these strategies will effectively help college students cultivate audience awareness in English writing.

scholarly journals Evaluation of error correction in writing process

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Cuong Phu Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
English Writing ◽  
The World ◽  
Popular Language ◽  
Giving Feedback

It is obvious that English has become a popular language in many countries in the world. As a means of communication, English guarantees better mutual understanding and has become indispensable for most of people around the world. Thus, it is necessary to find out an appropriate and effective methods of giving feedback to help university students improve their English writing skills. The result of this study indicates that using indirect coded feedback in error correction help students make noticeable progress. The students’ positive attitude towards teacher’s feedback (indirect coded feedback) means that they enjoyed using error codes to find and correct their errors. Moreover, their confidence was boosted because error codes motivated them.

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