The Relationship between Metatext and College Students’ Writing Quality

DOI

10.2991/asshm-14.2014.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Metatext, EFL, ESL instruction, English teaching, English writing

Abstract

Metatext, as a recurrent topic, has long been well studied and shown to be a prom-inent feature of various types of academic discourse. But very few studies have paid attention to the empirical work about the effects of metatext on English writing skills of Chinese college students. This paper aims to find the relationship between the use of metatext devices as well as whether or not the quality of writ-ing and the direct instruction of metatext markers can enhance EFL students' writing ability.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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