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Project Details

Funding Scheme :

Early Career Scheme

Project Number :

28607115

Project Title(English) :

Working towards an iClinic:Developing a suite of diagnostic language testing instruments for academic writing in English (DiaWrite)

Project Title(Chinese) :

為大學生學術英語寫作“把脈”：診斷性測試系統的研發及效驗

Principal Investigator(English) :

Dr Xie, Qin

Principal Investigator(Chinese) :

Department :

Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies

Institution :

The Education University of Hong Kong

E-mail Address :

qxie@eduhk.hk

Tel :

29488368

Co - Investigator(s) :

Panel :

Humanities, Social Sciences

Subject Area :

Psychology and Linguistics

Exercise Year :

2015 / 16

Fund Approved :

587,832

Project Status :

Completed

Completion Date :

30-6-2018

Project Objectives :

To identify salient language problems in Hong Kong undergraduates’ academic essays written in English.

To develop, and validate a discrete-point diagnostic test focusing on those salient language problems in students’ academic writing.

To develop and validate a fine-grained diagnostic checklist focusing on the key criteria of academic writing.

To investigate the relationships between the score profiles generated via the above two approaches to diagnose language problems in academic writing.

To identify and verify key linguistic indicators distinguishing major language skill patterns.

Abstract as per original application
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Research Outcome

Layman's Summary of
Completion Report:

SCREEN ID: SCRRM00542