An Overview of EFL Writing Research in Taiwan

摘要: Ever since Chen (陳玉美, 1998) conducted a survey on 14 years of EFL writing research in Taiwan, little retrospection its development has been systematically this country. In paper, the literature three recent (2005 to 2007) as published four local journals and proceedings major English teaching conferences was examined with aim identify thrust articles, point out needed areas for future research. The surveyed studies were classified into main categories based their focus: text-oriented, writer-oriented, reader-oriented, instruction-oriented. They further from perspectives problem areas, population methods used. Last, results compared two surveys North America. Unlike what (1998) observed, become more autonomous, demonstrates good array innovative instructional interventions. Influenced by corpus linguistics specific purposes, an increasing number papers have concentrated text analyses reference corpora or comparisons vs. learner corpora. Future directions exploration reader-oriented research, context such workplace English, teacher education. More rigorous designs effectively written data interpretations that are aligned efforts international community needed.