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Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing

A Contrastive Perspective

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  1. Xinghua Liu

    1. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minhang District, Shanghai, China

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  2. Anne McCabe

    1. Department of English, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain

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  • Provides a comprehensive and multidimensional investigation of attitudinal evaluation in foreign language learners’ English writing
  • Presents a methodological model for conducting ecologically valid contrastive discourse analysis
  • Offers a valuable reference guide to applying the appraisal framework in textual analysis

Part of the book series: Corpora and Intercultural Studies (COINST, volume 4)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Contrastive Rhetoric

    • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe
    Pages 1-15

  3. Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance

    • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe
    Pages 17-23

  4. Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing

    • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe
    Pages 25-35

  5. A Study of Attitude in Student Writing

    • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe
    Pages 37-52

  6. Appraisal Analysis

    • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe
    Pages 53-92

  7. Conclusions and Implications

    • Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe
    Pages 93-99

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 101-141
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About this book

This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking students’ Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students’ English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minhang District, Shanghai, China

    Xinghua Liu

  • Department of English, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain

    Anne McCabe

About the authors

​Dr. Xinghua Liu received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading, UK and completed his post-doctorate training in writing research at Arizona State University, USA. He has extensive teaching and research experience in second language writing and is a published researcher in this area. 

Dr. Anne McCabe obtained her Ph.D. in Language Studies at Aston University, UK, and has taught first-year University writing in English at Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus for over twenty-five years. She has published widely in areas related to academic writing, education, and the media, using a variety of discourse analytical tools.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students’ English Writing

  • Book Subtitle: A Contrastive Perspective

  • Authors: Xinghua Liu, Anne McCabe

  • Series Title: Corpora and Intercultural Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6415-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6414-2Published: 02 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4875-4Published: 04 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6415-9Published: 15 September 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2510-4802

  • Series E-ISSN: 2510-4810

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 141

  • Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language and Literature, Language Education

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