Advanced Writing in English as a Foreign Language: A Corpus-Based Study of Processes and Products

This book is concerned with the description and analysis of advanced writing in EFL. It provides a curricular and syllabus development focus as it takes account of writing pedagogy processes at Janus Pannonius University. The course content of undergraduate and postgraduate English-major students was studied. Using authentic records, the dissertation attempts to cover a wide spectrum of issues related to EFL students' writing skills in a variety of text types. The description and analysis of over 300 students' scripts, in the JPU Corpus, is presented to address the aspect of processing products.

The book is a cross-disciplinary undertaking: it is informed by writing pedagogy via classroom observations made over the years of Writing and Research Skills courses. It is also motivated by current empirical interest in exploiting machine-readable collections of written and spoken texts for language description, lexicography, discourse analysis and corpus-based language education techniques such as data-driven learning. The fundamental question it attempts to explore and answer is how the description of scripts written by advanced Hungarian university students of EFL can contribute to an understanding of writing processes and products.