A Search for EFL College Students’ Culture-Related Rhetorical Templates of Argumentative WritingA Search for EFL College Students’ Culture-Related Rhetorical Templates of Argumentative Writing
- Other Titles
- A Search for EFL College Students’ Culture-Related Rhetorical Templates of Argumentative Writing
- Authors
- 허명혜; 이인환
- Issue Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- 한국영어교육학회
- Keywords
- rhetorical templates; cultural resources; small culture; EFL writing
- Citation
- 영어교육, v.74, no.3, pp.55 - 77
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 영어교육
- Volume
- 74
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 55
- End Page
- 77
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/69447
- ISSN
- 1017-7108
- Abstract
- This study investigated EFL college students’ culture-related templates of written texts along the possibility of inter-cultural transfer. We designed a case study to explore how certain cultural assumptions contribute to EFL students’ rhetorical decisions while writing an argumentative writing. The participants were four EFL college students. Multiple data sources include background questionnaires, argumentative essays, and in-depth retrospective interviews. To analyze rhetorical choices in the participants’ writing, we identified choices of argumentation subtypes, and introduction and conclusion components. We also categorized the location of the writer’s main claim and thesis statement. The interview data were qualitatively analyzed to see what rhetorical resources participants draw from the cultural/educational contexts, and which factors had influenced the participants’ rhetorical strategy. Data analyses indicate that each participant manipulated different rhetorical structures to strengthen the rhetorical impact of their writing. Indeed, the complex constellation of individual participants’ cultural resources was at play in their L2 writing. This study contributes to our understanding of the rhetorical templates of L2 texts as constructs that are always in process, and therefore adaptable and negotiable.
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