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Direct linkWenjuan Qin; Roujia Jia; Wei Ren – Written Communication, 2024
The study examines a corpus of 306 request emails written by 32 English-speaking (ES) teachers and 121 L2 learners from distinctive L1 backgrounds (i.e., Chinese, French, Spanish) and with different levels of L2 proficiency. Pragmatic competence is analyzed through the coding of direct and indirect request strategies used in formal and informal…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Electronic Mail, Writing Skills, Second Language Learning
Tardy, Christine M.; Sommer-Farias, Bruna; Gevers, Jeroen – Written Communication, 2020
Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre knowledge, genre awareness, recontextualization, conditional knowledge, and metacognition. Definitions of these concepts have at times conflicted, and their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Metacognition
