The most important reason why an average writing is different from a good writing lies in whether the writing uses written language or spoken language. To tell the differences between them, the essay analyzes rich fea...The most important reason why an average writing is different from a good writing lies in whether the writing uses written language or spoken language. To tell the differences between them, the essay analyzes rich features such as lexical density, grammatical intricacy, and use of noun phrase of some examples. Therefore, students may learn how to write in a new point of view.展开更多
The primary concern of this paper is to address the issue of discrepancies between teachers intuitively defined stronger and weaker student argumentative writings.There exists a problem in Chinese university EFL writi...The primary concern of this paper is to address the issue of discrepancies between teachers intuitively defined stronger and weaker student argumentative writings.There exists a problem in Chinese university EFL writing classrooms that the teachers'remarks on student compositions are often found to be rather vague or even unhelpful.Remarks such as Needs further amendment and You wrote just like the way you speak cannot supply students with explicit reasons of what is really needed for their writing improvement.Affirming the dialectal view on text-context relationship held by Systemic Functional Grammar(SFG),the theoretical propositions of Rich Feature Analysis(Barton,2004) are contended to a sound solution to the problem proposed by this paper.To demonstrate its feasibility,the paper followed the gist of Rich Feature Analysis to analyze a corpus of four argumentative writings on same topics.The paper consolidates "the spoken-written continuum"(Barton,2004,p.64),and concludes stronger argumentative writings should own at least one of the following properties: product-like,condensed,recursive,coherent,distanced,and open to scrutiny.The absence of lexical density and nominalization constitutes the main reason for writing deficiencies by tertiary students.The implications for learning the register of schooling are discussed.展开更多
Error correction in writing is effective in an English as a foreign language (EFL) learning context, as error correction is an essential means of accuracy improvement in EFL writing. Studies of error correction show t...Error correction in writing is effective in an English as a foreign language (EFL) learning context, as error correction is an essential means of accuracy improvement in EFL writing. Studies of error correction show that error correction is benefitial for EFL writers not only in the short term but also in the long run.展开更多
世界少数民族语文研究院(SIL International)通过《世界民族语言》(Ethnologue:Languages of the World)定期发布世界各国语言状况数据,其中报道的中国语言状况的指标和数据,对于从世界看中国的视角了解认识中国的语言国情有一定的参考...世界少数民族语文研究院(SIL International)通过《世界民族语言》(Ethnologue:Languages of the World)定期发布世界各国语言状况数据,其中报道的中国语言状况的指标和数据,对于从世界看中国的视角了解认识中国的语言国情有一定的参考意义。文章描述和介绍该文献设定的“语言名称”“分布国家”“语言地位”“语言系属”和“文字情况”5种指标数据在中国语言现状中的分布,并对该国际组织关于我国语言国情的认知做一些中国语言规划视域下的分析与评议。展开更多
文摘The most important reason why an average writing is different from a good writing lies in whether the writing uses written language or spoken language. To tell the differences between them, the essay analyzes rich features such as lexical density, grammatical intricacy, and use of noun phrase of some examples. Therefore, students may learn how to write in a new point of view.
文摘The primary concern of this paper is to address the issue of discrepancies between teachers intuitively defined stronger and weaker student argumentative writings.There exists a problem in Chinese university EFL writing classrooms that the teachers'remarks on student compositions are often found to be rather vague or even unhelpful.Remarks such as Needs further amendment and You wrote just like the way you speak cannot supply students with explicit reasons of what is really needed for their writing improvement.Affirming the dialectal view on text-context relationship held by Systemic Functional Grammar(SFG),the theoretical propositions of Rich Feature Analysis(Barton,2004) are contended to a sound solution to the problem proposed by this paper.To demonstrate its feasibility,the paper followed the gist of Rich Feature Analysis to analyze a corpus of four argumentative writings on same topics.The paper consolidates "the spoken-written continuum"(Barton,2004,p.64),and concludes stronger argumentative writings should own at least one of the following properties: product-like,condensed,recursive,coherent,distanced,and open to scrutiny.The absence of lexical density and nominalization constitutes the main reason for writing deficiencies by tertiary students.The implications for learning the register of schooling are discussed.
文摘Error correction in writing is effective in an English as a foreign language (EFL) learning context, as error correction is an essential means of accuracy improvement in EFL writing. Studies of error correction show that error correction is benefitial for EFL writers not only in the short term but also in the long run.
文摘世界少数民族语文研究院(SIL International)通过《世界民族语言》(Ethnologue:Languages of the World)定期发布世界各国语言状况数据,其中报道的中国语言状况的指标和数据,对于从世界看中国的视角了解认识中国的语言国情有一定的参考意义。文章描述和介绍该文献设定的“语言名称”“分布国家”“语言地位”“语言系属”和“文字情况”5种指标数据在中国语言现状中的分布,并对该国际组织关于我国语言国情的认知做一些中国语言规划视域下的分析与评议。
