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Master’S And Doctoral Theses On Second Language Writing: A Survey Of The Emerging Voices In China, Yue Chen
Master’S And Doctoral Theses On Second Language Writing: A Survey Of The Emerging Voices In China, Yue Chen
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Graduate students in China have addressed concerns about second language writing (SLW) in their theses and dissertations since 2000, but their voices are not represented in the current SLW literature. The present study aimed to investigate resident Chinese graduate students’ research in the field of SLW. The author reviewed the abstracts of all master’s theses and PhD dissertations on SLW completed in Chinese Universities between the year 2003 and 2012. The abstracts were collected from China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database and China Master’s Theses Full-text Database. Each abstract was coded for major topic, research type, and target population. The coded …