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本期文章：What happens to ESL students’writing after three years of study at an English medium university?

来源期刊：Journal of Second Language Writing

摘要：

The number of international students coming to study in Australian universities has increased exponentially in the past decade, mirroring trends in other English speaking countries. For the majority of these students, English is an additional language. The motivation for studying in an English medium university is presumably not only to gain a degree but also to improve English language proficiency. Studying in an English-medium university provides these students with a rich immersion environment. However, research on whether these students’ English proficiency does improve has to date been scarce, and has generally examined students’ gains after a relatively short duration (e.g., 12 weeks). The current study examined 31 undergraduate students’ L2 (ESL) writing proficiency following a three-year degree study in an Australian university. The study used a test–retest design which required participants to write a 30-minute argumentative essay on the same topic at the commencement and at the end of their degree program. A range of measures was used to assess writing, including global and discourse measures. All participants were also interviewed about their writing experiences at the university. The study found that students’ writing improved after three years of study but only in terms of fluency; changes in accuracy, grammatical and lexical complexity, as well as global scores of writing fell short of significance. The students reported in the interviews that they were not required to do much writing in their degree studies and when they did, their lecturers almost exclusively commented on the content of their writing. We discuss our findings in relation to the students’ L2 proficiency, the nature of the test, and the nature of their immersion experience.

Brief Introduction

在英语为教学语言的大学里，学生的写作能力是如何发展的？本文通过历时研究，对比了一年和三年之后的写作成品，来回答上面的问题。

Research Questions

1. Does the writing of L2 students improve after threeyears of study in a degree course in an L2-medium university?

2. What factors may explain L2 learners’ improvementor lack there of?

Research method:

本文研究方法非常简单。一次前测，一次后测，再加上一次板结构性访谈。通过前测和后测的对比，来验证学生写作发展情况。通过半结构型访谈，来确定影响学生写作能力的因素。

Comment：

1. 文章简单易懂，容易阅读。

2. 实验设计清楚明了，话题比较有趣。也许很多人的想法是只要出国，英语就好的一塌糊涂，也许这篇文章会让我们认清事实。

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