This is really out of my field, Philippa, but a number of pilot studies
done by Chinese students are reported in my _Toward a Grammar of
Passages_. Southern Illinois Press (Studies in Writing and
Rhetoric). There is also an MA thesis by Sun-I Chen in the Simon Fraser
University Library. (And Yaying's dissertation, which by all early
indications should be quite wonderful and useful, but it isn't finished
yet.) It might be worth checking the _ESP_ journal.
Rick
At 11:44 AM 26/04/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a grad student who is undertaking a small research project on "The
>problems that intenational students encounter in communicating effectively
>in a North-American post-secondary educational system." He himself is
>Chinese and he will be interviewing a few other international students at
>our university about the communication problems they have faced and
>strategies they have used in their academic work here.
>
>This project is being completed as part of a course on writing in the
>disciplines, in which we have looked a lot at issues about communciating
>effectively across and within disciplines in a general way, but not
>specifically in relation to international and/or second (or third or
>fourth . . .) language students.
>
>Can anybody recommend articles or books that address, either in practical
>or theoretical terms, this dimension of academic enculturation?
>
>Many thanks for your help,
>
>Philippa
>
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