Overview
- Investigates Chinese secondary school EFL learners’ texts from a longitudinal perspective
- Describes the lexico-grammatical features that secondary school EFL learners use in their L2 writing
- Offers a general guidebook for L2 writing teachers at the secondary education level
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This book investigates Chinese secondary EFL learners’ meaning-making abilities in English L2 writing by adopting theoretical frameworks used in systemic functional linguistics (SFL). It offers a comprehensive guide to Chinese high school students’ use of lexico-grammatical resources in L2 English writing for frontline L2 writing teachers, TESOL practitioners, pre-service teachers, and all professionals engaged in researching and teaching L2 writing. In particular, the book seeks to fill the current gaps in secondary school L2 writing research in the Asian context.
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About the author
​Dr Winfred Wenhui Xuan is a full-time lecturer at the College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he teaches courses on academic English and communication studies. An associate editor of the Asian EFL Journal, his research interests include Systemic Functional Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, EAP Writing, and Research Synthesis in Language Studies. His works have appeared in WORD, Functional Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Review, The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Asian EFL Journal and Asia-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing as Meaning-Making
Book Subtitle: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach to EFL Writing
Authors: Winfred Wenhui Xuan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0320-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0319-9Published: 08 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0322-9Published: 09 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0320-5Published: 07 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 338
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Development