Academic Writing in a Second or Foreign Language

Issues and Challenges Facing Esl/EFL Academic Writers in Higher Education Contexts

By: Ramona Tang (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 January 2012 | Edition Number 1

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It can be a challenge writing in a language that

is not your native tongue. Constructing academic essays, dissertations

and research articles in this second or foreign language is even more

challenging, yet across the globe thousands of academics and students do so,

some out of choice, some out of necessity. This book looks at a major

issue within the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It focuses

on the issues confronting non-native-English-speaking academics, scholars and

students, who face increasing pressure to write and publish in English, now

widely acknowledged as the academic lingua franca. Questions of

identity, access, pedagogy and empowerment naturally arise. This book

looks at both student and professional academic writers, using qualitative text

analysis, quantitative questionnaire data, corpus investigations and

ethnographic approaches to searchingly examine issues central to the EAP field.

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Ramona Tang has assembled a collection of chapters that brings together a wealth of practical knowledge and experience of teaching and researching academic writing, together with insightful discussion of the position of and practices that surround English in higher education and academia more generally. This book captures the breadth of current thinking around academic writing and will be invaluable for practitioners and researchers.--Sanford Lakoff

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