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Challenges in academic writing for L2 engineering postgraduate students -…
Challenges in academic writing for L2 engineering postgraduate students
Factors contributing to challenges
Inadequate integration of academic writing in the curriculum
Complex writing tasks at the graduate leve
Limited formal trainning in academic writing
Limited research on problems encountered by graduate students in their academic writing
Study 2: Huang (2010)
(Students' and faculty perspective)
Views of 434 L2 students and 93 instructors
undergraduates vs. postgraduates vs. instructors' perspectives
Academic writing as the greatest challenge
Higher confidence in writing abilities than instructors' assessment
Undergraduates: Concerns about surface/local level language problems ; Postgraduates: Concerns about discourse/global level language problems
Large-scale questionnaire survey
Study 3: Casanave and Hubbard (1992)
(Faculty perspective)
Survey of 85 faculty in graduate programs
Humanities and social science (HSS) vs. Science and Technology (ST) faculty
Importance of global features of writing over local features
Increasing significance of writing skills over time
HSS faculty: Concerns about appropriateness of vocabulary use
ST faculty: Different focus in academic writing skills
Study 1: Hyland (2016)
(Strategies of L2 doctoral students)
Strategies employed by L2 doctoral students to tackle writing problems
Limited information on the extent to which solutions meet faculty expectations
Overall Implications
Importance of global language features in graduate students' writing
Limited information on how L2 students' solutions meet faculty expectations
Need for independent data from students and faculty in HSS and ST streams
Current Study Objectives
Compare perspectives of faculty and students
Focus on doctoral level students
Examine writing challenges for Engineering postgraduate students
Research Questions
Perceptions of importance of global and local language skills
Prevailing practices of L2 Engineering postgraduate students in managing writing challenges and meeting faculty expectations
Comparison of academic writing challenges between L2 Engineering graduates and faculty