Peer review is widely used in writing courses for both practical and pedagogical reasons, but little has been published on the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners＇ review patterns. This study aimed to explore the...Peer review is widely used in writing courses for both practical and pedagogical reasons, but little has been published on the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners＇ review patterns. This study aimed to explore the types of peer comments, their distribution, and related factors in a Chinese context. It collected and analyzed in NVivo and SPSS 829 peer reviews, survey data, and students＇ writing and reading scores. Results show that more than half of the comments focused on language, one third on social talk, and about ten percent on content and organization. Multiple regression results show that content score, organization score, good attitude, procrastination, and assignment type were related to the distribution and the length of comments, but many other influencing factors are to be revealed in future research.展开更多
English writing has always been one of the main methods to measure English levels. In the Western academic field, the writing of academic essays is widely used in higher education to assess students' comprehension...English writing has always been one of the main methods to measure English levels. In the Western academic field, the writing of academic essays is widely used in higher education to assess students' comprehension of the course material and to demonstrate students' academic and research levels. Based on Swales' and Bhatia's approaches, the move analysis is combined with the analysis of linguistic features — lexical and cohesive devices to analyse the research report introduction in order to show the necessity of including discourse analysis into teaching English writing. Based on this analysis, suggested applications for language teaching are put forward.展开更多
基金funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Peer review is widely used in writing courses for both practical and pedagogical reasons, but little has been published on the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners＇ review patterns. This study aimed to explore the types of peer comments, their distribution, and related factors in a Chinese context. It collected and analyzed in NVivo and SPSS 829 peer reviews, survey data, and students＇ writing and reading scores. Results show that more than half of the comments focused on language, one third on social talk, and about ten percent on content and organization. Multiple regression results show that content score, organization score, good attitude, procrastination, and assignment type were related to the distribution and the length of comments, but many other influencing factors are to be revealed in future research.
文摘English writing has always been one of the main methods to measure English levels. In the Western academic field, the writing of academic essays is widely used in higher education to assess students' comprehension of the course material and to demonstrate students' academic and research levels. Based on Swales' and Bhatia's approaches, the move analysis is combined with the analysis of linguistic features — lexical and cohesive devices to analyse the research report introduction in order to show the necessity of including discourse analysis into teaching English writing. Based on this analysis, suggested applications for language teaching are put forward.
