Rhetorical duality and Arabic speaking EST learners  

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Halimah, Ahmad M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 2 (2001), page 111-140.
Fulltext: 20_02_Halimah.pdf (322.95KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study analyses matched writing samples of 100 native Arabic speakers' writing on WST (Writing for Science and Technology) topics in English and Arabic. The initial assessment of acceptable WST writing is carried out by three English speaking and two Arabic speaking WST teachers using ten criteria. The findings indicate that, though students have studied EFL writing for eight years, and are judged to be fairly good at the mechanics (i.e. capitalisation, punctuation, spelling and handwriting), lexis and grammar, they still have significant difficulty in writing in WST rhetorical style. This is ascribed to the fact that, because of rhetorical duality, they transfer rhetorical irregularities of the Arabic discourse over into their WST writing. This conclusion is supported in part by the results of a questionnaire given to their WST teachers which demonstrates that these teachers place great emphasis on linguistically-oriented elements and very little on style, and in part by an analysis of the Arabic corpus on the basis of communicative Arabic, rather than WST style. This analysis clearly shows that features considered good in communicative Arabic are not acceptable in either Arabic or English WST.

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