Addressing academic writing needs of ESL (English as a Second Language) undergraduate students

• Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, Shameem Ahmed, Shabbir Ahmed, Henry Bating, Mehmet Cem OdacıoÄŸlu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Research Centre for Humanities and Science 2017
• Subjects: PE English language
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/16921/1/Addressing_academic_writing_needs_of_ESL.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/16921/; http://media.wix.com/ugd/b2629b_c7a968f110d542679106bd1d1e0c90ec.pdf

This study reports on a genre-based study examining the employment of communicative purposes (moves) in the body paragraphs of academic essays written by ESL (English as a Second Language) students at a university in Malaysia. A move analysis on the body paragraphs of student English academic essays...