A Study of the Rhetorical Features and the Argument Structure of EAP Essays by L1 and L2 Students in the UAE

Hamam, Doaa

doi:10.18823/asiatefl.2020.17.2.28.699

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“…This limitation may be better understood by comparing AI-generated texts with writings from specific cultural contexts. National or regional belief systems currently shape human writers' choices when designing discourse for specific situational contexts (Hamadouche, 2013;Hamam, 2020;Hammad, 2002;Jiang, 2006;Paltridge, 2012). This view is illustrated by a study of five different American universities, which showed that students who learned Chinese struggled to adopt a new rhetorical style referred to as yìlùnwén writing, choosing to rely on traditional rhetorical patterns used in their L1 (Liu & Du, 2018, p. 1).…”

Section: Culturally Imbued Language and Limitations Of Chatgptmentioning

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ChatGPT Is Powerful, but Does It Have Power Distance?

Schenck

2024

International Journal of Adult Education and Technology

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Power distance (PD), a cultural value denoting acceptance of asymmetrical power relationships, influences the force of rhetoric used by a writer to address their reader. However, AI technologies such as ChatGPT lack an explicit awareness of PD, which could affect the quality of AI-generated persuasive texts used for language learning. To investigate this issue, 200 persuasive essays written by ChatGPT were compared to 200 essays written by L1-English university learners. Three elements of formulaic language related to PD were examined: stances, modals, and pronoun deixis. Differences in stances (z = -3.411; p = .001) and modals (z = -2.100; p = .036) were both significant according to the Wilcoxon signed ranks formula, whereas differences in pronoun deixis were nearly significant (z = -1.917; p = .055). Overall, language of ChatGPT appears generic and incomplete, suggesting that consistent and uniform expressions are being borrowed from an LLM training corpus to mimic aspects of PD. Limitations of AI highlight a need for pedagogical emphasis of culturally imbued discourse.

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Section: Culturally Imbued Language and Limitations Of Chatgptmentioning

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ChatGPT Is Powerful, but Does It Have Power Distance?

Schenck

2024

International Journal of Adult Education and Technology

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“…Meanwhile, words with positive and negative connotations were used to create emotion-related appeals. [5] discovered that writers from countries with English as their native language would mostly use words that can evoke logical appeals, whereas writers from English as non-native language countries would mostly use words that can evoke emotional appeals in the tone of their academic essays. [2] substantiated this argument in their contrastive study of rhetoric on the use of logical appeals between native English (NE) and non-native English (NNE) research writers that the former group showed lesser emotional usage of lexico-phrasal items than the native English writers, indicating that different groups of academic English writers employed logical and emotional appeals differently to create rhetorical appeals in their academic writing.…”

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The Persuasiveness of Research Abstracts through Analytical Thinking and Emotional Tone Domains in Academic Research Writing

Mohamad,

Zolkapli,

Wahab

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Analytical Thinking and Emotional Tone are two important psycholinguistic domains of the LIWC framework by Pennebaker, Boyd, Jordan, & Blackburn [12] LIWC framework. These domains were used to examine the perceptions on the unresolved issue of native and non-native English rhetoric in academic writing. The persuasiveness of these two domains was explored in the genre of research abstract compositions. One hundred and twenty Malaysian ESL respondents were sampled in this survey research to rate their perceptions of persuasiveness towards selected research abstracts in an adapted Persuasive Discourse Inventory (PDI) questionnaire. The selected research abstracts (RAs) were presented based on two criteria; 1) RAs with a standard usage of English nativeness versus non-nativeness, and 2) RAs with an over-usage or underusage of Analytical Thinking and Emotional Tone. It was found that RAs with non-native English rhetoric were more persuasive to ESL readers than RAs with native English in composing research abstracts, thus implying that native English rhetoric was apparently perceived as non-essential to ESL users in academic research writing. The persuasiveness of non-native English rhetoric was further evident through an over usage of elements related to Analytical Thinking and an under usage of elements related to Emotional Tone. Future research was recommended to explore the possible mediation of culture on the mismatch of perceptions between prior literature on the ESL writers' tendency to write with over usage of emotional tone compared to that of analytical Thinking because the ESL readers' perceptions in this research showed the opposite findings.

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“…This framework should facilitate online writing courses, enhance their delivery, and increase students' interest in and enthusiasm for the courses. It is clear from reading the earlier literature that there is not considered research on the use of the TPACK framework in academic writing.Consequently, in this area of the literature, we analyze a few recent research (Hamam, 2020). Tai, Pan and Lee wanted to use the TPACK model to develop an online English writing course for nursing students to observe how the course would affect students' performance.…”

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TPACK-based HOTS in Teaching Writing for Promoting EFL Learning Quality on Higher Education: Applying “Program Merdeka Belajar – Kampus Merdeka and Kurikulum Paradikma Baru”

Waluyo,

Nahdiyah,

Fahriana

2023

JDR

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The purpose of the study is to describe the technology on TPACK-based HOTS applied by lecturers of a suburban university in teaching writing, and its challenge faced in-class interaction. Four English lecturers from Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Blitar in Indonesia are the participants selected using the purposive sampling design. The process of data collection uses depth interviewing through the online system. Data are analyzed using a "holistic" viewpoint in case study. The results revealed that simple technology dominates the general interactions when teaching writing. Some lecturers may only have a basic understanding of utilizing technology to teach writing. Even they still favour using manual teaching. Because the internet network is poor, few students have technology equipment like laptops, and the interaction is tedious because students are unfamiliar with the technology. It is better that the government, schools, the community, and the primary critical holders for learning must work together in determining policies in the face of changes to use technology in all aspects of school interaction.

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A Study of the Rhetorical Features and the Argument Structure of EAP Essays by L1 and L2 Students in the UAE

Cited by 9 publications

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ChatGPT Is Powerful, but Does It Have Power Distance?

ChatGPT Is Powerful, but Does It Have Power Distance?

The Persuasiveness of Research Abstracts through Analytical Thinking and Emotional Tone Domains in Academic Research Writing

TPACK-based HOTS in Teaching Writing for Promoting EFL Learning Quality on Higher Education: Applying “Program Merdeka Belajar – Kampus Merdeka and Kurikulum Paradikma Baru”

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