“All’s well that ends well?” A Generic Analysis of Applicants’ English Autobiographical Statements of Purpose for Applying to Undergraduate Biodata Programmes in an EFL Context  

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YANG, WENHSIEN

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 9 no. 3 (2013), page 126-161.
Topik: genre analysis; keyword analysis; statements of purpose; intercultural communication; Taiwanese EFL learners
Fulltext: 126-161.pdf (169.1KB)

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Recent generic analysis of statements of purpose has constructed similar schematic structures of this occluded genre across different disciplines in L1 contexts. These studies indicate a need for further inter-contextual or cross-disciplinary examinations of this genre from sensitive and qualitative perspectives of accommodating situations, contexts and purposes of writing. In this study, I first identified a generic structure of English autobiographical statements of purpose (ASP) 1 written by EFL learners and submitted to an English undergraduate programme in an EFL context. I also analysed how the keywords were used in the texts to realise the writers’ purposes. Furthermore, a questionnaire survey and interviews with ELT teacher professors were conducted to elicit their views on how they treated ASP, and to discuss why distinguishability was contextually invisible based on the notions of large cultures and small cultures. The findings reveal that rhetorical moves and focuses of ASP vary across different statuses of English use, cultures and programmes. These findings lead to implications not only for writing instruction of this genre, but also for undergraduate programmes requesting ASP from prospective students.

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