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Devanadera, Aprillette C. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
This study is anchored on Swale's Theory of Genre Analysis and employed Labov and Waletzky's Personal Experience Narrative (PEN) as a narrative framework in analyzing Vietnamese EFL students' patterns of writing. The study reveals that Vietnamese student's rhetorical structure follows a three-step-pattern which is introducing the character,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vietnamese People, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Marzluf, Phillip P. – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Though diversity serves as a valuable source for rhetorical inquiry, expressivist instructors who privilege diversity writing may also overemphasize the essential authenticity of their students' vernaculars. This romantic and salvationist impulse reveals the troubling implications of eighteenth-century Natural Language Theory and may,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Linguistic Performance, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Street, Brian, Ed. – 1993
A collection of essays on cross-cultural aspects of literacy education includes: "Conceptions and Uses of Literacy in a Papua New Guinea Village" (Don Kulick, Christopher Stroud); "Literacy and Feelings: The Encoding of Affect in Nukulaelae Letters" (Niko Besnier); "The Uses of Schooling and Literacy in a Zamfimaniry…
Descriptors: Arabic, Code Switching (Language), Cooperative Learning, Cross Cultural Studies
Graddol, David, Ed.; Swann, Joan, Ed. – 1994
Papers from a British conference on applied linguistics address various aspects of evaluation and language. Articles include: "Grammar and Language Impairment: Clinical Linguistics as Applied Linguistics" (Paul Fletcher); "Putting Our Practice Into Theory" (Deborah Cameron); "Applied Linguistics as Evaluation of Theory and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, College Students