A Genre-based Approach to Teaching Chinese Engineering Graduates Writing Research Articles  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 8 no. 4 (2012), page 30-62.
Topik: genre-based approach; QQ interactive learning; research article; action research; Chinese engineering graduates
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Academic English writing has become essential because of the fast development of Chinese economy. Although ELT in China tried different ways to promote academic English communication, College English teaching in China has been critically commented upon recently, because of the learners’ ill-structured academic research article writing in English. Through an action research course, this study aims to promote Chinese engineering graduates’ academic research article writing skills in Chongqing University, southwest part of China. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, questionnaires, interviews and students’ assignments were used to investigate whether the genre-based approach to teaching Chinese Engineering graduates’ academic writing through interactive learning was feasible. The results showed that first, the genre-based approach can be a good model because participants can understand the function of the academic research article well and the patterns from each move of the research article can help the graduates’ writing effectively; second, participants’ improvement in their writing and speaking for academic purposes is obvious through interactive learning by means of QQ 2 ; and third, the time to run this course is essential because the graduates’ research experiences may help them better understand research article writing. This article concludes that the genre-based approach, coupled with appropriate interactions, can enhance students’ motivation in writing and speaking for academic conference publications.

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