KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Aisha Sayidina, The George Washington University
Attribution and Authorial Stance in Chinese Graduate Students' Research Papers: Pedagogical
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the patterns of attribution and reporting verbs preferred by Chinese graduate students when they integrate source materials into their research papers. Here, attribution refers to "integral" and "non-integral" citations, and reporting verbs signify the writers' authorial stance with regard to the source texts as well as their own. The study was conducted over a period of two semesters gathering data from thirty research papers written by thirty Chinese graduate students at a major US university. The textual analysis is supported by qualitative investigation in the form of interviews and letters written by the students reflecting on the factors that influenced their decisions. The findings of these analyses and student reflections are believed to have significant pedagogical implications for material design in the EAP context.
Biographicals
Aisha Sayidina (Dr.) is assistant professor in the English for Academic Purposes Program at the George Washington University, USA. She is teaching and coordinating instruction at the graduate level of the program. Dr. Sayidina earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Exeter, UK, and an MA in TESOL from Georgetown University, USA. She has taught extensively for over 20 years in the US, the UK, Canada and the Middle East. Her research interests lie in the areas of Action Research, EAP/ESP, Contrastive Rhetoric and Applied Linguistics.
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