A comparison of English and Persian Organizational Patterns in the Argumentative Writing of Iranian EFL Students

Rashidi, Naser; Alimorad, Zahra

doi:10.29302/jolie.2009.2.1.9

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“…The graduate learners organized most of their arguments in a deductive fashion. In line with most of the previous research (Hirose 2003;Kobayashi and Rinnert 2008;Rashidi and Dastkhezr 2009), their writing mainly falls into the dominant categories of Deductive, Off, Inductive, and Both deductive and Inductive patterns, respectively. The majority of the participants (82%) state their positions clearly either at the beginning (deductively, 49%) or at the end (inductively, 18%) or Both (15%).…”

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“…However, Hirose (2003), as well as Kobayashi and Rinnert (2008) showed that Japanese EFL students used deductive patterns in discourse when writing English argumentative papers. Further, Rashidi and Dastkhezr (2009) found that Iranian intermediate EFL students tended to present the main ideas at the beginning of their papers, so did undergraduate Turkish EFL learners in Uysal (2008). Overall, except for Chinese learners, these studies provide some evidence for a dominantly deductive pattern in the argumentative discourse of Asian EFL students.…”

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Argumentative Writing Behavior of Graduate EFL Learners

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This study analyzed the argumentative writing behavior of Iranian graduate learners of English as Foreign Language (EFL) in their English essays. Further, the correlations between the use of argument elements and overall writing quality as well as soundness of produced arguments were investigated. To this end, 150 essays were analyzed. The sample essays were found to be predominantly deductive in terms of rhetorical pattern. Moreover, they mainly utilized 'data' and 'claim' most frequently with secondary elements of argument (i.e., counterargument claim, counterargument data, rebuttal claim, and rebuttal data) as the least produced elements. Overall writing quality covaried significantly positively with the uses of claims, data, counterargument claims, counterargument data, rebuttal claims, and rebuttal data. Essays rated high in terms of overall writing quality were further rated for soundness and relevance of the arguments. The results demonstrate that even for advanced language learners good surface structure cannot necessarily guarantee well thought-out logical structure. The pedagogical implications for writing instruction and research are discussed.

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Argumentative Writing Behavior of Graduate EFL Learners

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“…This finding is consistent with previous research by Hirose (2003) on Japanese undergraduate students and a study by Rashidi and Dastkhezr (2009) on Iranian undergraduate students. These studies found that students preferred the deductive pattern in organizing their essays, either in English or their national language.…”

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Rhetorical pattern of the Indonesian EFL undergraduate students’ writings

Fajrina

Everatt

Sadeghi

2022

SiELE

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The present research aimed to study the rhetorical patterns in students’ writings, whether they follow a deductive pattern or an inductive pattern, and whether the pattern is similar when writing in English and the Indonesian language. The sample for this study was 20 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education majoring in English Education in several universities in Indonesia. Participants were requested to write two essays and two email-format letters, one of each was written in English, the other in the Indonesian language. The results showed that all students preferred the deductive pattern for their two types of essays. However, for the letter writing, students preferred the inductive pattern more than the deductive one, with 12 students using the inductive pattern in their letters in English and 16 students using the inductive pattern in their letters in Indonesian. It is suggested that the Indonesian culture and the teaching instructions received in the classrooms may influence students’ choice of the patterns they use in different types of writings. The findings should give valuable information for the design of teaching writing courses in English Education majors in Indonesia.

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“…Like study of Hirose in 2003, Rashidi andDastkhezr (2009) compared English and Persian organizational patterns in argumentative writings of Iranians students. The study was carried out within-subject comparisons of 30 undergraduate students of English L1 and L2 compositions in terms of organizational patterns, organization scores, and overall quality.…”

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Rhetorical patterns of argumentation in EFL journals of Persian and English

Pishghadam¹,

Attaran²

2012

IJRSLL

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Argumentation is a core of article writing. Despite its importance, no English as a foreign language (EFL) research has examined how Iranian researchers set their argumentations based upon a well-established theoretical model of argumentation. This qualitative study intends to bridge this gap by building upon Toulmin's ( 2003) model of argumentation to analyze the use of argumentation in EFL articles rhetorically. To this end, 90 articles from the reliable EFL journals in English and Persian were randomly selected with the purpose of discovering underlying conventions which lay behind their argumentations in discussion section of each. Articles in Persian corpus were written by native Persian writers, articles in English corpus were written by native English writers and English articles in inter-language corpus were written by native Persian speakers. This study pointed the differences among the three groups of articles. It was thus indicated that Iranians transfer their first language argumentation rhetorical patterns to their writing in a foreign language, i.e. English. This illustrates that culture may count for the argumentation elements presented in Iranian EFL articles. Other influential factors were also discussed. Finally, pedagogical implications were suggested in the context of second language learning.

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A comparison of English and Persian Organizational Patterns in the Argumentative Writing of Iranian EFL Students

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Argumentative Writing Behavior of Graduate EFL Learners

Argumentative Writing Behavior of Graduate EFL Learners

Rhetorical pattern of the Indonesian EFL undergraduate students’ writings

Rhetorical patterns of argumentation in EFL journals of Persian and English

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