From Language to Multimodality - New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning - Carys Jones
10 The role of the Nominal group in undergraduate academic writing
From Language to Multimodality - New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning - Carys Jones
Anne McCabe [+]
Saint Louis University
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Anne McCabe is a faculty member of the English Department at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, where she teaches linguistics, ESL and writing pedagogy to undergraduate and graduate students. She has published widely on application of Systemic Functional Linguistics to analysis of educational and media texts including An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies (Equinox).
Christopher Gallagher [+]
University of Tokyo
My present research interests include applications of Systemic Functional linguistics in the teaching of English for Academic Purposes, and the role of reflection in ongoing teacher/self development. I like surfing too!
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This chapter aims to contribute to this body of work by analysing the similarities and the differences in the use of the nominal group between proficient and novice undergraduate writers, in two different institutional contexts (Japan and Spain), in order to determine ways in which we can help focus our novice student writers’ attention to this resource in order for them to better understand and write academic texts.