This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of translation strategies as informed by Translation Studies in foreign language (FL) classroom. The current study aims map how translation, perceived Studies, can be beneficial for students’ writing skills FL It focuses on undergraduate students three French Composition classes: a control class fall 2014, second 2015, and an experimental spring 20...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

1 Teresa Larkin-Hein, American University, Department of Physics, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016 [email protected] 2 Dan D. Budny, University of Pittsburgh, Engineering St udent Services Center, B74A Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 [email protected] Abstract — The educational benefits of adapting a writing approach in the classroom have been widely documented. Writing can ser...