Chinese Students' Writing in English

Maria Leedham is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language Studies at the Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University, UK.

• 1. Introduction  2. Contextualising Chinese Students’ Literacy and Language Learning  3. Features of Chinese Students’ Writing in the Corpus  4. Variation across Year Groups  5. Disciplinary Influences: Student Writing in Biology, Economics and Engineering  6. Discipline Lecturer, Writing Tutor and University Student Perspectives  7. Conclusions  Appendices

'This book provides valuable insights for applied linguistics researchers and students interested in corpus linguistics, lecturers in the disciplines who want to gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding the writing of Chinese students, and EAP/writing teachers.'Ursula Wingate, Senior Lecturer in Language in Education, King’s College London, UK.'Situated at a crossroads between learner corpus research and academic disciplinary writing research, and with the learner population representing a hybrid between a foreign- and a second-language learning situation, the study adds to our understanding of the challenges of native and non-native speakers alike when faced with the task of writing academic papers in English.'Hilde Hasselgård, Professor, University of Oslo, Norway.'This is a topical, yet relatively neglected, area of research to which this study has made a pertinent contribution.'Jonathan Culbert, EAP tutor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.