Raising students' awareness of cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric in english writing via an e-learning course

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-93

  Xing, Minjie ^a   Wang, Jinghui ^c,d   Spencer, Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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