Second Language

This dissertation explores the extent and the ways Omani Muslim women's identity is affected when writing in English as a second language. This study seeks to gain insight into the relationship between these women's current lives and views and writing in ESL. The participants we…

The field of contrastive rhetoric examines contrasting rhetorical structures across languages with the goal of predicting the difficulties experienced by students learning to write essays in a foreign language. The paradigmatic contrast is between Western languages such as Engli…