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Transfer in Chinese students' academic English writing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transfer in Chinese students' academic English writing./
Author:	Wu, Shinian.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1995,
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4754.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-12A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9610525

Transfer in Chinese students' academic English writing.
Wu, Shinian.

Transfer in Chinese students' academic English writing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1995 - 242 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-12, Section: A, page: 4754.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Arizona University, 1995.

Language transfer has been investigated extensively in second language acquisition research. Many studies have focused on phonological and syntactic aspects of cross-linguistic transfer in speaking. This dissertation, however, examined transfer in a different mode of language use, academic writing, with a goal of characterizing the nature of transfer in two distinct dimensions: (a) lexical and syntactic errors in the use of 10 selected linguistic features as a result of likely influences of Chinese; and (b) relative use patterns of these features compared across the two languages in students' writing.Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

Transfer in Chinese students' academic English writing.
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500 $a Co-Chairs: William Grabe; Mary McGroarty.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Arizona University, 1995.
520 $a Language transfer has been investigated extensively in second language acquisition research. Many studies have focused on phonological and syntactic aspects of cross-linguistic transfer in speaking. This dissertation, however, examined transfer in a different mode of language use, academic writing, with a goal of characterizing the nature of transfer in two distinct dimensions: (a) lexical and syntactic errors in the use of 10 selected linguistic features as a result of likely influences of Chinese; and (b) relative use patterns of these features compared across the two languages in students' writing.
520 $a Participants were 108 Chinese college students (73 English majors and 35 non-English majors) from two Chinese institutions who completed three essay assignments, one in Chinese, their mother tongue (L1), and two in English, their second language (L2).
520 $a Six specific issues were investigated: (1) type and frequency of the features involved in transfer; (2) effects of L2 proficiency and L1 literacy on transfer; (3) learners' use patterns of the features in English writing; (4) effects of L2 proficiency and L1 literacy on the use patterns; (5) the relationship between L2 proficiency and L2 writing quality; and (6) the role of the writers' background and attitudinal factors in their transfer behavior.
520 $a Analyses showed that (1) all chosen features were involved in transfer, to varying degrees; (2) Differing L2 proficiency levels had a significant effect on learners' transfer behavior, whereas their L1 writing ability was a negligible factor in transfer; (3) an interlanguage continuum best described learners' L2 use patterns compared to L2 norms; (4) L2 proficiency had a graded effect on use-based patterns compared with L2 norms; (5) there was a positive relationship between L2 proficiency and perceived L2 writing quality; (6) attitudinal factors did not appear to affect learners' tendency to transfer from L1, but background factors of prior English training were predictive of learners' transfer behavior.
520 $a The findings suggest that, given comparable L1 literacy levels, L2 proficiency and skills-oriented training in the L2 will likely determine how learners will perform academic writing tasks in the L2. Also, the notion of relative-use transfer needs to be further explored.
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