Pedagogical insights from contrastive studies of English and Chinese writers in the BAWE corpus

Sheena Gardner

Pedagogical insights from contrastive studies of English and Chinese writers in the BAWE corpus

Sheena Gardner

College of Arts & Society

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus of successful university student writing, and reviews studies that have used it to compare the academic writing of Chinese and British students in English. The methodologies vary in that some compare BAWE with other corpora, while others make comparisons within the BAWE corpus across texts from different disciplines, genre families and years of study. In addition, the linguistic focus varies from whole text patterns, through the use of figures and tables, to lexical and grammatical categories such as transition markers and shell nouns.
While many of the findings are fascinating to linguists, this chapter also considers how potentially useful the contrastive findings in research on BAWE are to the teaching of academic writing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Academic writing across languages:
Subtitle of host publication	multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education.
Editors	Birgit Huemer, E Lejot, Katrien Deroey
Publisher	Böhlau-Verlag
Pages	105-126
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	978-3-205-20705-4
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Duration: 2 Dec 2016 → 3 Dec 2016

Publication series

Name	Schreibwissenschaft (Research on Writing)
Publisher	Böhlau-Verlag

Conference

Conference	Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education
Country/Territory	Luxembourg
City	Luxembourg City
Period	2/12/16 → 3/12/16

Keywords

academic English
contrastive linguistics
multlingualism
Chinese students in the UK
English language teaching
English for Academic Purposes

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Pedagogical insights from contrastive studies of English and Chinese writers in the BAWE corpus. / Gardner, Sheena.
Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education.. ed. / Birgit Huemer; E Lejot; Katrien Deroey. Böhlau-Verlag , 2019. p. 105-126 (Schreibwissenschaft (Research on Writing)).

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Gardner, S 2019, Pedagogical insights from contrastive studies of English and Chinese writers in the BAWE corpus. in B Huemer, E Lejot & K Deroey (eds), Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education.. Schreibwissenschaft (Research on Writing), Böhlau-Verlag , pp. 105-126, Academic writing across languages: multilingual and contrastive approaches in higher education, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 2/12/16.

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