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Understanding students’mimicry, emulation and imitation of
genre…
Research bacground
Chisese EFL students were observed to analyze acccording to Vygotskian notion of mimicry,emulation and imitation .The students were asked to attend A six-week EAP workshop called "Cultural Tourism Studies"
. Due to the workshop's short duration, an ESP genre-based strategy was chosen, and genre examples were used to scaffold the students' comprehension of two key genre traits (i.e., citation and organization).
The research
Participants
44 EFL students
The first two years period is dedicated to improve intensivily four skills: Reading, Listening ,Speaking and Writing
Till the end of the 2nd course , their english proficiency wil be at the B2 level according to CEFR
For the third and
fourth years, they took eight domain-specific courses.
"Cultural Tourism Studies" course is conducting using co-teaching approach and it is divided into three parts:
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Results and discussions
The analysis of the data was done in two steps. All in-text citations and subheadings were classified in the initial stage as mimicry, emulation, or imitation.
Lam’s mimicry: Rabbiosi (2013) noted that “the history of the mid-nineteenth century commercial revolution and luxury
fashion are embedded in the city’s physical forms as well as in its sense of place.”
Lee’s emulation: Philip Kotler (2003) noted that facilitating products are services or goods that must be present for the
guest to use core product.
Sample article #1: Warde and Martens (1998) noted that eating out, from a broader perspective, greatly increases tourists’
satisfaction.
Woo’s imitation: Scarpato (2002) noted that food satisfies all the conventional requirements of cultural tourism products.
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Wu, Z. (2019). Understanding students’ mimicry, emulation and imitation of genre exemplars: An exploratory study. English for Specific Purposes, 54, 127-138.
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