An Academic Writing Needs Analysis of Czech University Graduate Students

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F20%3A00115899" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/20:00115899 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/13508" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/13508</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2020-1-42" target="_blank" >10.5817/DI2020-1-42</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

An Academic Writing Needs Analysis of Czech University Graduate Students

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The present paper presents the results of a needs analysis conducted among Czech students involved in a Master’s degree programme English Language Teacher Education. The aim was to identify their academic writing needs on the basis of a needs analysis questionnaire and a linguistic analysis of their written discourse in order to find out whether there are divergences between their ‘wants’ and ‘lacks’ (Hutchinson &amp; Waters 1987). The results indicate that the students’ previous tuition at Bachelor’s level focused primarily on lexico-grammatical features of academic style such as text organizing devices, academic vocabulary, grammatical structures and citation styles. However, other areas essential to writing a successful Master’s thesis, such as evaluation and interpretation of results, conveying personal viewpoints and communicating with the reader or acknowledging research limitations, were ascribed a somewhat lower importance by the students, suggesting the existence of a divergence between the students’ ‘wants’ and ‘lacks’. The findings concerning the students’ perception of the writing process also concur with the finding of the authors’ previous research (Dontcheva et al. 2020) into the Theme zone in Czech students’ Master’s theses, which has indicated that Czech Master’s students tend to overuse textual Themes expressed by linkers and underuse interpersonal Themes realised by stance devices.

Název v anglickém jazyce

An Academic Writing Needs Analysis of Czech University Graduate Students

Popis výsledku anglicky

The present paper presents the results of a needs analysis conducted among Czech students involved in a Master’s degree programme English Language Teacher Education. The aim was to identify their academic writing needs on the basis of a needs analysis questionnaire and a linguistic analysis of their written discourse in order to find out whether there are divergences between their ‘wants’ and ‘lacks’ (Hutchinson &amp; Waters 1987). The results indicate that the students’ previous tuition at Bachelor’s level focused primarily on lexico-grammatical features of academic style such as text organizing devices, academic vocabulary, grammatical structures and citation styles. However, other areas essential to writing a successful Master’s thesis, such as evaluation and interpretation of results, conveying personal viewpoints and communicating with the reader or acknowledging research limitations, were ascribed a somewhat lower importance by the students, suggesting the existence of a divergence between the students’ ‘wants’ and ‘lacks’. The findings concerning the students’ perception of the writing process also concur with the finding of the authors’ previous research (Dontcheva et al. 2020) into the Theme zone in Czech students’ Master’s theses, which has indicated that Czech Master’s students tend to overuse textual Themes expressed by linkers and underuse interpersonal Themes realised by stance devices.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LTC18015" target="_blank" >LTC18015: Výzkum a výuka akademického psaní z mezikulturního hlediska</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Discourse and Interaction

ISSN

1802-9930

e-ISSN

1805-952X

Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

42-66

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85086861263