EFL Chinese Students and High Stakes Expository Writing: A Theme Analysis

dc.contributor.authorYang, Qianspa
dc.contributor.authorRamírez, J. Andrésspa
dc.contributor.authorHarman, Ruthspa
dc.date2007-01-01
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dc.date.available2019-09-19T21:23:22Z
dc.descriptionThe expository essay in English is a key gatekeeping milestone as students seek to move from one level of schooling to the next (Schleppegrell, 2004). Using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study analyzes a Chinese college student's expository essay written on a nationwide English examination in China. Two aspects of theme in the textual metafunction will be examined: theme markedness and theme progression (Eggins, 1994; Halliday, 1994). These components are further explored through a parallel analysis of an expository essay written by a North American freshman. This comparative theme analysis highlights areas in pedagogy that should be attended to if EFL students are to get more sophisticated control over important features of expository writing.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3147
dc.identifier10.14483/22487085.3147
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11349/18037
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldasen-US
dc.relationhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3147/4524
dc.relationhttps://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/calj/article/view/3147/4525
dc.sourceColombian appl. linguist. J.; No 9, (2007); 99-125es-ES
dc.sourceColombian Applied Linguistics Journal; No 9, (2007); 99-125en-US
dc.source2248-7085
dc.source0123-4641
dc.subjectExpository Textsen-US
dc.subjectEFLen-US
dc.subjectChinese Studentsen-US
dc.subjectSystemic Functional Linguisticsen-US
dc.subjectCohesionen-US
dc.subjectGenre-based Pedagogyen-US
dc.titleEFL Chinese Students and High Stakes Expository Writing: A Theme Analysisen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typeArtículo revisado por pareses-ES
dc.typePeer-reviewes Articleen-US
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