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Instruction of Nominalization by Applying Enabling of POA

  • Hao Chen

    Hao Chen, Ph. D. in applied linguistics, is an associate professor of English (applied linguistics) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing University of Technology. Her research efforts have focused on language teaching, SLA, and teacher development.

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Abstract

It is noticeable that the academic papers written by Chinese English learners are lacking in academic features largely due to their poor ability to use nominalization. Therefore, the instruction of nominalization in an academic English writing course is badly needed. The author conducted one-semester-long instruction of nominalization to 90 non-English majors under the guidance of the production-oriented approach (POA). This research demonstrated how to apply POA, specifically, the enabling procedure to the teaching of nominalization. By triangulating the data of students’ interviews, learning journals and written output, and the data of 4 teachers’ class observations and interviews, this study found that the accurate application of the three criteria of effective enabling contributed to the improvement of the quantity and quality of nominalization in academic writing.


1 This paper is written based on Chen and Wen (2020), a Chinese article by the authors on the same topic. This study was funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Project at Key Research Centers of the Ministry of Education in China (16JJD740002) and was supported by the research project of education and teaching of Beijing University of Technology (ER2020B066) and Chinese Scholarship Council in 2019.


About the author

Hao Chen

Hao Chen, Ph. D. in applied linguistics, is an associate professor of English (applied linguistics) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing University of Technology. Her research efforts have focused on language teaching, SLA, and teacher development.

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Published Online: 2020-10-13
Published in Print: 2020-09-25

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