Second language writers' text : linguistic and rhetorical features / Eli Hinkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinkel, Eli.

Series:

ESL and applied linguistics professional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

Second language acquisition.

College prose--Evaluation.

College prose.

Physical Description:

xx, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Summary:

Presents results of large-scale study of university-level text produced by writers who are not native speakers of English, to determine the specifice syntactic, lexical, and rhetorical features that differ from those in texts written by native speakers.

Contents:

I Background: Research in Text and Written Discourse 1

1 Writing as Text 3

Theoretical Underpinnings and Research Trends 4

Contrastive Rhetoric 5

Text Linguistics 7

Corpus Analyses 10

Critical Discourse Analysis 13

2 Research in Academic and ESL Written Discourse and Text 15

Features of Student Essay Writing 21

3 Written Discourse and Text in Different Rhetorical Traditions 30

Written Discourse and Text in Non-Anglo-American Rhetoric 31

Learning the Norms of L2 Academic Discourse 41

4 The Goals and Politics of Teaching ESL Writing 45

The Importance of L2 Learners in the Academy 45

English Composition for Native Speakers 46

L2 Writing Instruction for Non-Native Speakers 48

Process-Centered Teaching Center Stage 50

Content-Based Instruction for Writing in the Disciplines 50

The Outcomes 51

The Crux of the Issue 53

Curricula in L2 College-Level Writing/Composition Courses 56

5 The Study of Features of Second Language Text: Essays, the Data, and Methods of Analysis 58

The Present Study 58

First and Second Language Essays and the Data 60

Methods of Data Analysis 64

II Common Linguistic and Rhetorical Features of Academic ESL Text 73

6 Nouns, Pronouns, and Nominals and Their Functions and Uses in Text 77

Semantic and Lexical Classes of Nouns 77

Personal Pronouns (and Contractions) 83

Nominals 88

7 The Verb Phrase and Deverbals and Their Functions and Uses in Text 96

Tenses 97

Aspects 99

Semantic and Lexical Classes of Verbs 104

Modal Verbs 108

The Passive Voice (+By-Phrase) 111

Be-Copula as the Main Verb 113

Infinitives 114

Participles 116

8 Adjectives and Adverbs and Their Functions and Uses in Text 118

Adjectives 119

Semantic and Lexical Classes of Adverbs 121

9 Subordinate Clauses and Their Functions and Uses 128

Noun (Nominal) Clauses (Including Prepositions) 130

Adjective Clauses 131

Adverb Clauses 134

Reduced Adverb Clauses 137

10 Text-Rhetorical Features and Their Functions and Uses 141

Coordinating and Logical Conjunctions/Prepositions 142

Exemplification 146

Hedges 148

Rhetorical Questions and Tags 153

Demonstratives 154

Emphatics 156

Presupposition Markers 157

Fixed Strings 158

III The Effect of Prompts on ESL Text 161

11 The First Three Prompts 165

The Parents Prompt 165

The Grades Prompt 175

The Wealth Prompt 182

12 The Second Three Prompts 191

The Manner Prompt 191

The Opinions Prompt 199

The Major Prompt 206

13 The Differences That the Prompts Make 215

Essays of Native Speakers 218

Essays of Chinese Speakers 222

Essays of Japanese Speakers 225

Essays of Korean Speakers 225

Essays of Vietnamese Speakers 230

Essays of Indonesian Speakers 233

Essays of Arabic Speakers 236

14 Determining Priorities in Teaching and Curriculum 245

Top-Tier Priorities 247

Second-Tier Priorities 250

Third-Tier Priorities 252

Implications for Teacher Training and the Training of Trainers 258

Learning Advanced Academic Skills 260

Attention, Awareness, and Noticing 261

Implications in the Classroom 263

Appendix A. Rank-Order of Median Frequency Rates of Linguistic Features in NS and NNS Texts 267

Appendix B. Comparisons of Common Linguistic and Rhetorical Features in Academic Essays Across Prompts By L1 groups 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and indexes.

ISBN:

0805838880

0805840338

OCLC:

46383683