Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students' English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective

ISBN-13: 9789811064142 / Chiński / Twarda / 2017 / 141 str.

Xinghua Liu; Anne McCabe

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Contrastive Rhetoric

1.1 Introduction and Origins

1.2 Criticisms of Early Contrastive Rhetoric

1.3 Expansion of Contrastive Rhetoric

1.4 Research Considerations

1.5 Contrastive Chinese-English studies of voice and critical stance

1.6 SFL as a useful framework for contrastive rhetoric research

1.7 Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing: A Contrastive Perspective

Chapter 2 Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance

2.1 Audience Interaction and Student Writing

2.2 Voice, Audience and Student Writing

2.3 Voice, Stance and Evaluation

Chapter 3 Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing

3.1 Evaluation in Interaction

3.2 The Appraisal Framework

3.3 Relevant studies on Appraisal

3.4 Specific enquiry of the study

Chapter 4 A Study of Attitude in Stud

ent Writing

4.1 Contrastive Rhetoric Research with an Expanded Framework and Improved Design

4.2 University Contexts for the Study

4.3 Written Data Collection

4.4 Attitudinal analysis

4.5 Summary

Chapter 5 Appraisal Analysis

5.1 A cross-linguistic comparison between English writing and Chinese writing: EE and CC

5.2 A cross-cultural comparison between EE and CEE

5.3 A within-language comparison between CC and CEC

5.4 A within-subject comparison between CEE and CEC

5.5 Summary

Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications

References

Appendices

O autorze

​Dr. Xinghua Liu received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK and completed his post-doctorate training in writing research at Arizona State University, USA. He has extensive teaching and research experience in second language writing and is a published researcher in this area. 

Dr. Anne McCabe obtained her Ph.D. in Language Studies at Aston University, UK, and has taught first-year University writing in English at Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus for over twenty-five years. She has published widely in areas related to academic writing, education, and the media, using a variety of discourse analytical tools.

Blurb

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.