Jia-Ying Fan

Writing Tasks and Learners’ Textual Theme Choices: An Analysis of First-year Non‑English Majors’ Routine English Writing

This study is designed to analyze the use of Textual Themes in three different writing tasks, namely Dos and Don’ts in China, A Movie Review, and Introducing a Hotel. The data consist of 24 English compositions written by first-year non-English majors at a university in Guangdong Province. Adopting a mixed-method appro...