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- Title
Academic Literacy Development: University Students' Perceptions and Experiences of English Academic Writing in Southeast Asia.
- Authors
Anna Wing-bo Tso; Joan Sau-kwan Chung
- Abstract
To provide a closer look at the learning of English academic writing in the context of higher education in Southeast Asia, this article, as an account of a small-scale case study, focuses on the learning that took place at a large Southeast Asian public metropolitan university. Year 1 English as a Second Language (ESL) students who completed the foundation English academic writing classes were surveyed and interviewed. Findings from the opinion survey, focus-group interview and course evaluation results revealed that most ESL university students believed the English academic writing course they took at the university failed to provide them with discipline-specific, discourse-based training. This suggests that writing courses should be designed specifically for each discipline so that different skills with regard to the academic writing discourse of different disciplines can be taught and learnt. However, because of limited manpower and resources at the university, making this kind of change to writing courses would be very challenging.
- Subjects
ASIA; ACADEMIC discourse -- Study &; teaching; ENGLISH language education for foreign speakers in universities &; colleges; HIGHER education; LANGUAGE ability; ACADEMIC achievement
- Publication
Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1019-8725
- Publication type
Article