Teaching Writing for Publication in English: Opportunities and Challenges

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Project title

Code/計畫編號

MOST103-2410-H019-012

Translated Name/計畫中文名

英文論文課程的機會與挑戰

Project Coordinator/計畫主持人

Ju-Chuan Huang

Funding Organization/主管機關

National Science and Technology Council

Department/Unit

Institute of Applied English

Website

https://www.grb.gov.tw/search/planDetail?id=8349677

Year

2014

Start date/計畫起

01-08-2014

Expected Completion/計畫迄

31-07-2015

Bugetid/研究經費

464千元

ResearchField/研究領域

教育學
語文

為增加國際學術競爭力，台灣大學開始要求科學領域之博士生畢業前在國際知名期刊發表英文論文。因應此要求，各系所亦開設英文論文寫作課程。目前台灣開設之英文論文寫作課程大多由各系所老師自行授課，少數大學則交由英文老師教授此課程。單一領域的師資在英文論文寫作課程中可能是個問題，因英文期刊文章不僅需要語文知識，作者也必須精熟領域知識。因此，英文老師或領域專家，在不熟悉彼此領域的情況下，在教授英文論文寫作時可能會遇到不少問題。最好的解決方法則是請英文老師及領域專家共同授課；然而，到目前為止，幾乎沒有系所嘗試這種授課模式。此計畫踏出跨領域合作的第一步，邀請輪機系的專家與英語教學學者合作，共同開設英文論文寫作課。英語教學學者利用專業英文教學教授語言相關知識，而領域專家則注重內容的表達。兩邊學者們亦會共同舉辦工作坊，解決學生寫作問題。本計畫會進行前後測及分析學生作業以了解學生進步程度；學生及老師們也會被邀請訪談，表達他們對此課程及跨領域合作的意見及建議。本研究結果將可提供一個創新的課程設計供未來教師及研究者參考。"In order to gain international competitiveness, many universities in Taiwan now have required PhD students, especially those in science, to publish indexed English research articles before graduation. Accordingly, within departments courses have been implemented to help these students pass this graduation requirement; these courses are either taught by English language teaching professionals or by disciplinary experts alone. The problem with course instructors from one single field lies in their lack of knowledge from another field. English language teaching professionals may find it difficult to deal with content knowledge in class, whereas disciplinary experts, albeit their writing competence, may find it challenging to teach linguistic knowledge explicitly. An ideal solution to this problem is to have ELT professionals and disciplinary experts collaboratively teach research writing; however, few attempts have made to initiate cross-disciplinary collaboration despite its potential benefits. The purpose of this project is to take the initiative by having an ELT professional and Marine Engineering experts team-teach in an innovative English research writing course. In this course, the ELT professional will adopt the English for Specific Purposes pedagogy by teaching the move structure and linguistic features based on genre analysis; the disciplinary experts will share strategies for writing research article sections with a focus on the content. In addition, after students hand in their assignments, both instructors will grade the assignments and hold workshops together to address the problems in students’ writing. To examine students’ writing development, not only will a pretest and a posttest will be administered but students’ assignments will be collected and analyzed. Students and the disciplinary experts will also be interviewed to evaluate this course as well as the cross-disciplinary collaboration initiative. The findings of this project will not only shed light on second/foreign language writing research but also provide a novel pedagogical framework for teaching writing for publication in English to non-native English speaking students."

Keyword(s)

英文論文寫作
共同授課
專業英語
博士班學生
team teaching
English research writing course
English for Specific Purposes
non-native English speaking students

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Teaching Writing for Publication in English: Opportunities and Challenges

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