Tracing Cultures behind the Struggling Experience of a Chinese High School Student Writing Application Letters in English
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| Title | Tracing Cultures behind the Struggling Experience of a Chinese High School Student Writing Application Letters in English |
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| Abstract | By examining the affect, behavior and cognition (the ABCs) involved in the writing process of a Chinese high school student composing application essays in English (a foreign language) as a case study by means of ethnographic approach and under the notion of small culture, this study aims to illustrate how different cultural forces interact with one another and how they come to play in the shaping of rhetorical differences between learner´s native language (L1/NL )and second or foreign language (L2/FL ) writing. Data were collected and analyzed from various sources --essay drafts, interviews, personal reflections, and email exchanges. The findings show that multiple cultural forces ranging from national culture (Chinese culture, for example) to small cultures such as L1/NL and L2 /EFL writing instruction and family education and the like, interact with one another and co-influence L2/EFL learner´s writing practice. And the intensity of struggle in L2/EFL writing somewhat relates to the interaction between the mentioned cultures. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2012-05-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 2, No 5 (2012) |
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