This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of explicit instruction on English academic writings. A quasi-experimental research was conducted in this study, which involved seventy Ph.D students as participants. Those students were subdivided into treatment group (n=34) and comparison group (n=36). The explicit instruction includes a 'bottom-up' approach aiming to promote students' general English writing skills, and a 'top-down' approach targeting at improving students' academic writing abilities. The combination of 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' approaches clinging to the applications of online and offline corpora and corpus tools. The specific teaching procedures and relevant contents were presented in the current study. By comparing the writings before(pre-test) and after(post-test) the explicit instruction, the treatment group students significantly outperformed the comparison counterparts in terms of academic English writings. The treatment group students acquired a better strategy of introduction deployment, method adoption, result presentation, and discussion generation. Those findings triggered several pedagogical implications.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 2.1 Theoretical Background 2.2 Previous Studies on Academic Writings 3. Methodology 3.1 Participants 3.2 Instruments 3.3 Teaching Procedures 3.4 Data Collection 3.5 Data Analysis 4. Results and Discussions 4.1 Effects of Explicit Instruction on Students' General Writing Abilities 4.2 Effects of Explicit Instruction on Students' Academic Writing Competences 4.3 Students' Attitudes towards the Explicit Instruction 5. Conclusion References
키워드
academic English writingexplicit instructioncorpus-based studyeffectiveness
한국언어연구학회 [The Korean Association of Language Studies]
설립연도
1996
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
한국언어연구학회는 언어학과 언어교육 분야의 연구를 통하하여 학문의 질적 향상과 국내외 회원 및 학회간의 학술 교류와 친목을 도모한다. 이를 위해 학술 연구 발표회, 강연회, 강습회를 개최하고, 정기학회지, 연구보고서, 서적 등을 간행하며, 그 밖에 지역사회에 필요한 사업과 연구 활동을 수행하는데 중점을 두고 있다.