The The benefits of “Academic Writing” course for the freshmen in English-medium-instruction departments in a Turkish state university

Yasadikca Egitim Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI:10.33308/26674874.2022362415

Burak Tomak

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The importance of academic writing is prevalent especially for the students taking English-medium instruction (EMI). After the intensive language lessons in the School of Foreign Languages, students must reach a certain level (B2) in order to pursue their academic studies in English. In addition to their departmental courses, freshmen in some EMI departments are offered “Academic Writing” course while some others do not have this opportunity. Thus, this study has tried to determine the efficiency and the benefits of this course for the freshmen in this university. For the purpose of the study, 5 freshmen that took “Academic Writing” course in the spring semester and 6 other freshmen who were not offered this course were assigned to write an academic essay on a given topic by the researcher. After the submission of their papers, the researcher had semi-structured interviews with each participant. Data were analyzed qualitatively via manual coding. It was found that the students who took “Academic Writing” course were more successful than their peers who were not given this opportunity in terms of grammar and vocabulary knowledge as well as the content formation in their academic papers.

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“学术写作”课程对土耳其一所州立大学英语教学系新生的益处

学术写作的重要性是普遍的，特别是对学生采取英语教学(EMI)。经过外国语学院的语言强化课程，学生必须达到一定的水平(B2)才能继续他们的英语学术研究。除了院系课程外，EMI的一些院系还开设了“学术写作”课程，而另一些院系则没有这样的机会。因此，本研究试图确定该课程对该大学新生的效率和效益。为了研究的目的，研究者要求5名春季学期上过“学术写作”课程的大一新生和另外6名没有上过这门课程的大一新生就给定的主题写一篇学术论文。提交论文后，研究人员对每位参与者进行了半结构化访谈。通过手工编码对数据进行定性分析。研究发现，参加过“学术写作”课程的学生在语法和词汇知识以及学术论文的内容形成方面都比没有参加过“学术写作”课程的同龄人更成功。

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