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Takano, Shoji – Journal of Intensive English Studies, 1993
Ten Japanese subjects in Arizona participated in a study that confirmed that Japanese-specific rhetoric is transferred in a native Japanese English-as-a-Second-Language student's composition, and examined the extent to which the transferred rhetorical organization is discordant with native English readers' expectations. (26 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Japanese, Language Patterns
