Are We Being Globalized? : A Contrastive Analysis of Application Essays

• 영문명: Are We Being Globalized? : A Contrastive Analysis of Application Essays
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Hye-ryeong Hahn
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제10권 3호, 1~20쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2004.12.01

영문 초록

The findings in contrastive rhetoric research of the twentieth century have shown that different cultures have different conventions in organizing written texts. These culture-related conventions were claimed to influence English texts written by L2 learners, including Asian learners of English. However, due to the massive inflow of the American culture into Asia as well as increased exposure to English in the midst of globalization of the last decade, it is quite probable that the textual gap between the native English writers and Asian EFL writers have been reduced. The present study investigates the changes that have taken place in EFL writer's knowledge of genre-specific writing over the past decade. To this aim, this study compared four sets of application essays written by four groups of applicants (1) native American applicants in 1993, (2) Korean EFL applicants in 1993, (3) native American applicants in 2003, and (4) Korean EFL applicants in 2003 The results suggested that the disparity between the Korean EFL writers' and the native English wnters' texts were becoming less noticeable at the macro-level, possibly due to Korean EFL writers' enhanced textual awareness of English genre structures Pedagogical implications are discussed.

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Abstract

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION

Ⅱ. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Ⅲ. METHOD

Ⅳ. RESULTS

Ⅴ. PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION AND CONCLUSION

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