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Tarrayo, Veronico N. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper argues that in interpreting literary pieces, language and literature should team up for their mutual benefit. Based on this assumption, this study explores the interface between language and literature by examining along stylistic lines the flash fiction piece "When It's A Grey November In Your Soul" written by Cristina…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Literature, Language Styles, Fiction
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Chen, Jinshi – English Language Teaching, 2017
Legal case brief writing is pedagogically important yet insufficiently discussed for Chinese EFL learners majoring in law. Based on process genre approach and discourse information theory (DIT), the present study designs a corpus-based analytical model for Chinese EFL learners' autonomy in legal case brief writing and explores the process of case…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition)
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Yu, Aiju – International Education Studies, 2012
This paper explores the problems of EFL classroom writings in the Chinese college teaching context from the perspective of textual organization and pragmatic strategy. Influence of their native cultural thought pattern causes the problem of discourse pattern and cohesion; lack of sufficient pragmatic strategy renders students' unawareness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chevalier, Joan F. – Heritage Language Journal, 2004
This paper analyzes the process of intergenerational language shift from a sociolinguistic perspective and proposes a pedagogical model for expanding the stylistic range of heritage learners, targeting the development of writing proficiency. The model proposes that the curriculum should be organized so that students initially draw on their…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Oral Language, Teaching Methods, Sociolinguistics