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An Cheng
Assistant Professor
PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Genre Theory in Rhetorical Studies
- English for Specific Purposes (ESP)/English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Professional Writing
- Language Awareness
- L2 Learner Characteristics
- L2 Writing Theories and Practices
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses
- Genre Theories, Language, and Writing
- Teaching Technical and Business Writing
- Writing in the Transnational World
- Introduction to Graduate Studies
- Pedagogical grammar
- Theories of Communication
- Descriptive Linguistics
Selected Publications
"Individualized engagement with genre in academic literacy tasks" (2008). English for Specific Purposes, 27, 387-411.
"Analyzing genre exemplars in preparation for writing: The case of an L2 graduate student in the ESP genre-based instructional framework of academic literacy." (2008). Applied Linguistics, 29, 50-71.
"Transferring generic features and recontextualizing genre awareness: Understanding writing performance in the ESP genre-based literacy framework." (2007). English for Specific Purposes, 26, 287-307. Winner of the ESP 2007 Horowitz Award for Best Article of the Year.
"Simulation-based L2 writing instruction: Enhancement through genre analysis." (2007). Simulation and Gaming, 38, 1-16.
"Analyzing and enacting academic criticism: The case of a graduate learner of academic writing." (2006). Journal of Second Language Writing, 15, 279-306.
"Understanding learners and learning in ESP genre-based writing instruction." (2006). English for Specific Purposes, 25, 76-89.
"Reconceptualizing multicompetence as a theory of language knowledge." (2006). Applied Linguistics, 27, 220-240. (with J. K. Hall and M. Carlson)
Honors
ESP 2007 Horowitze Best Article of the Year
Recent Conference Presentations
"Students' noticing of generic features in discipline-specific journal articles: A study of a genre-based writing class for L2 graduate students." Annual Conference of American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Washington, DC., USA, April, 2008.
"Genre analysis and learning opportunities: Implications for ESP genre-based writing instruction." Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Costa Mesa, California, USA, April, 2007.
“Adversarial Discourses in Academic Writing.” Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California, USA, May, 2006.
“Context and genre learning.” Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), State College, Pennsylvania, USA, October, 2004.
“Learner development in ESP genre-based literacy instruction.” Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, Oregon, USA, May, 2004.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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