@article{article_602531, title={Brazilian Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Their Challenges with Academic Writing in English}, journal={Bogazici University Journal of Education}, volume={36}, pages={53–75}, year={2019}, url={https://izlik.org/JA35NJ36JE}, author={Dantas-lunn, Marina S. and Ferreira, Marília M.}, keywords={Writing difficulties,EAP writing,academic literacy,Brazilian graduate students,internationalization}, abstract={<p> <i> <span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">International publication in prestigious English journals challenges
novice EFL researchers, especially graduate students. While these challenges
have been extensively studied abroad (Bitchener & Basturkmen, 2006; Huang,
2010; Lavelle & Bushrow, 2007; Pessoa, Miller & Kaufer, 2014; Phakiti
& Li, 2011; Smirnova, 2015; Zhang & Mi, 2010), they have not in Brazil.
To uncover these difficulties, a questionnaire was designed and applied to 303
graduate students from the largest Brazilian public university. The most
frequent challenges were writing in natural-sounding English, using
prepositions, and writing unknown genres. Participants also perceived clarity
as very important in “good” English writing, yet hard to achieve given their
vocabulary or grammatical limitations. These results might be explained by the
participants’ affiliation to a traditional view of language and of writing
(Zamel, 1976, 1982) and their lack of experience with academic discourse in
English, possibly due to their insufficient English literacy trajectories. </span> </i> <br /> </p>}, number={1}