21.2087, Qs: Reader and Audience Awareness

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Subject: 21.2087, Qs: Reader and Audience Awareness

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Date: 29-Apr-2010
From: Annie Zhang < congcongyx at hotmail.com >
Subject: Reader and Audience Awareness
 

	
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Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 10:48:27
From: Annie Zhang [congcongyx at hotmail.com]
Subject: Reader and Audience Awareness

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I am at Shandong University, China, majoring in Applied Linguistics. 
Now I am doing research into reader awareness for my thesis.

I noticed that students, such as the Chinese students for example, lack 
reader awarenss in writing, which can cause inefficiency in writing. I 
found that many Chinese scholars mainly focused on the effect of 
reader awareness; however, I want to do something from another 
aspect, that is: try to study the perception of reader awareness of 
Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, and are there 
any differences between reader awareness in Chinese and English 
writing? If yes, what are they? What causes the differences? 

So, these two are my major research questions. In fact, I hope to make 
a contrast between Chinese students and English native speakers, 
then I aim to see whether different culture (I mean the thinking patterns 
which are influenced by different cultures, e.g. Chinese people are 
influenced by Confucianism) can influence and affect people's rhetoric 
method and then affect people's writing.

I want to adopt an open-ended questionnaire, but I do not know how to 
ask appropriate questions, and I wonder if there is similar research 
done by other linguists before. I have this initial idea, but I do not know 
which point to go into first and what kind of methodoloy is good and 
effective. Also, what are the latest findings in the field of 
"reader/audience awareness" in writing? I would greatly appreciate any 
help.

Thank you very much, I look forward to your answer.

Annie Zhang 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics




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