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Factors Affecting Composition Evaluation in an EFL Context: Cultural Rhetorical Pattern and Readers' Background.

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Kobayashi, Hiroe; Rinnert, Carol – Language Learning, 1996

Investigated how readers of different backgrounds evaluated 16 versions of Japanese university English as a foreign language (EFL) students' English compositions containing different culturally influenced rhetorical patterns. Results suggest that a flexible approach to permissible rhetorical patterns and a greater emphasis on coherence may be…

Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, Cultural Background, English (Second Language)