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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2014.14.10.829

English Writing Strategies of Korean Students: Exploring Written Texts and Interviews with the Teacher  

Lee, Younghwa (선문대학교 영어학과)
Kim, Seon Jae (배재대학교 전자상거래학과)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.14, no.10, 2014 , pp. 829-839 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims at investigating Korean EFL students' writing strategies through their rhetorical patterns and meaning-making for a writing task in an English writing classroom at a Korean university. The participants were the students and teacher in the course, and the data comprised nine pieces of students' opinion writing and interviews with the teacher. To analyze the data, a 'Claim-Support' pattern was adopted. The findings show that most students, 89%, demonstrated the same or similar elements in the 'Claim-Support' pattern for their textual structures and many parts of the meaning-making in their writing were originated from the textbook. These findings reflect that the students pursued the strategy of 'accommodation' in order to succeed in their academic writing regardless of the teacher's intention which focused on creativity and imagination in writing. The conclusion suggest that the students tend to establish their own ways of strategy to cope with the recontextualized setting for writing in English.
Keywords
Writing Strategies; Rhetorical Patterns; Meaning-making; Claim-Support Pattern; Accommodation;
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