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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455049803321

Autore

Hinkel Eli

Titolo

Second language writers' text [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic and rhetorical features / / Eli Hinkel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-32430-6

0-8058-4033-8

9786612324307

1-4106-0284-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Collana

ESL and applied linguistics professional series

Disciplina

428/.0071

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

Second language acquisition

College prose - Evaluation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; I Background: Research in Text and Written Discourse; II Common Linguistic and Rhetorical Features of Academic ESL Text; III The Effect of Prompts on ESL Text; IV Conclusion; Appendix A. Rank-Order of Median Frequency Rates of Linguistic Features in NS and NNS Texts; Appendix B. Comparisons of Common Linguistic and Rhetorical Features in Academic Essays Across Prompts By L1 groups; Glossary; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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