Graduate learners' approaches to genre-analysis tasks: Variations across and within four disciplines

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 84-96

  Kuteeva, Maria ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Academic literacy; Disciplinary discourse; Genre awareness; Genre analysis tasks; Genre based instruction; Graduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872436788     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.esp.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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