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Genre Features of Personal Statements by Chinese English-as-an-Additional-Language Writers: A Corpus-Driven Study.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Genre Features of Personal Statements by Chinese English-as-an-Additional-Language Writers: A Corpus-Driven Study./
Author:	Chen, Sibo.
Description:	106 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International52-06(E).
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MS26383
ISBN:	9780499263834

Genre Features of Personal Statements by Chinese English-as-an-Additional-Language Writers: A Corpus-Driven Study.
Chen, Sibo.

Genre Features of Personal Statements by Chinese English-as-an-Additional-Language Writers: A Corpus-Driven Study. - 106 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria (Canada), 2013.

Personal Statements (PSs) are self-narrative essays written for Western graduate school applications, which serve an important role in Western graduate schools' admission processes. However, genre features of PSs have not been sufficiently addressed by previous genre studies. Such neglect indicates a promising area for investigation as the increasing number of non-native English speakers in Western higher education systems creates an urgent pedagogical need for PS-related English-as-an-Additional-Language (EAL) instruction.

ISBN: 9780499263834Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

Genre Features of Personal Statements by Chinese English-as-an-Additional-Language Writers: A Corpus-Driven Study.
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520 $a Personal Statements (PSs) are self-narrative essays written for Western graduate school applications, which serve an important role in Western graduate schools' admission processes. However, genre features of PSs have not been sufficiently addressed by previous genre studies. Such neglect indicates a promising area for investigation as the increasing number of non-native English speakers in Western higher education systems creates an urgent pedagogical need for PS-related English-as-an-Additional-Language (EAL) instruction.
520 $a The present thesis reports a corpus-driven genre analysis of PSs written by Chinese EAL students (CEAL-PSs). Based on a corpus of 120 CEAL-PS samples, genre features of CEAL-PSs were investigated from three perspectives: (1) linguistic complexity (i.e. lexical diversity and grammatical intricacy), (2) content foci (i.e. at the lexical, phrasal, discoursal levels), and (3) functional move structure. In addition, comparative analyses were made between unedited and edited CEAL-PSs for investigating whether the editing process significantly changed the unedited CEAL-PSs in the above three perspectives.
520 $a There were three major findings of the current study. First, the majority of lexicons used by the collected CEAL-PSs were frequent academic lexicons and the average grammatical intricacy of these samples was at senior high school or junior college levels. Second, expressions of self-promotion and discussions of academic/professional achievements were explicitly emphasized in the collected CEAL-PSs at the lexical, phrasal, and discoursal levels. Third, an IERC model ("Introduction," "Establishing Credentials," "Reasons for Application," and "Conclusion"), was found to be followed by the majority of the collected CEAL-PSs. Based on the above findings, the thesis further discusses the current study's theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications for EAL writing instruction in China.
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