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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Details of new publication:-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">And a link to a flyer (with 20% off:</span>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/Chinese-Students-Writing">http://tinyurl.com/Chinese-Students-Writing</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<h1 style="margin-top:0cm"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:21.5pt;line-height:115%">Chinese Students’ Writing in English<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#262626">Implications from a corpus-driven study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">By Maria Leedham</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Series: Routledge Research in Education</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chinese students are the largest international student group in UK universities
today, yet little is known about their undergraduate writing and the challenges they face. Drawing on the British Academic Written English corpus - a large corpus of proficient undergraduate student writing collected in the UK in the early 2000s - this study
explores Chinese students’ written assignments in English in a range of university disciplines, contrasting these with assignments from British students. The study is supplemented by questionnaire and interview datasets with discipline lecturers, writing tutors
and students, and provides a comprehensive picture of the Chinese student writer today.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Theoretically framed through work within academic literacies and lexical priming,
the author seeks to explore what we know about Chinese students’ writing and to extend these findings to undergraduate writing more generally. In a globalized educational environment, it is important for educators to understand differences in writing styles
across the student body, and to move from the widespread deficit model of student writing towards a descriptive model which embraces different ways of achieving success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chinese Students’ Writing in English</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
will be of value to researchers, EAP tutors, and university lecturers teaching Chinese students in the UK, China, and other English or Chinese-speaking countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#548DD4">Dr Maria Leedham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#548DD4">Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#548DD4">Staff webpage: <a href="http://fels-staff.open.ac.uk/m.e.leedham">
http://fels-staff.open.ac.uk/m.e.leedham</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#548DD4">Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, Faculty of Education and Language Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#548DD4">The Open University, L2, Stuart Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#548DD4">8</span><a href="mailto:m.e.leedham@open.ac.uk"><span style="color:#548DD4">maria.leedham@open.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://goo.gl/WPcTBF"><span style="color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="602" height="100" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFD710.01B40FA0"></span></a><span style="color:#548DD4"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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