Attitudinal evaluation in Chinese university students' English writing : a contrastive perspective / Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Xinghua, author.

McCabe, Anne (Anne M.), author.

Series:

Corpora and intercultural studies ; volume 4.

Corpora and intercultural studies ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher)--China.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--China.

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Foreign speakers--Chinese.

College students--China--Attitudes.

College students.

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Foreign speakers.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language--Composition and exercises.

China.

Physical Description:

xiii, 141 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students' English texts, Chinese-speaking students' Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students' English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9811064148

9789811064142

OCLC:

1020559001