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Liu, Yue – 1996
An approach to teaching expository writing in English as a Second Language (ESL) to native speakers of Chinese is offered. It is based on a comparison and classification of rhetorical patterns in the two languages. Chinese rhetoric contains a wide variety of methods of presentation, including both direct and indirect, or metaphoric, forms. It is…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics
Clijsters, Willy – 1992
Instruction in business letter-writing, particularly in the context of the business French course, is discussed. First, the kinds of business communications (face-to-face, print, and electronic) currently used are surveyed briefly, and a taxonomy of the content of business communication is presented. Conventions of French business letters are then…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education, Class Activities, Classification
Sun, Yu-Chih – 1998
A 50-item, five-point Likert scale inventory was designed to be a valid and reliable group-administered instrument to provide a profile of the declarative knowledge of electronic mail (e-mail) strategies used by students learning English as a second language (ESL) or foreign language (EFL). The inventory was developed primarily for voluntary use…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Electronic Mail, English (Second Language)