A Study of the Comparison Between English and Chinese Text Patterns and the Implications for English Writing Instruction

As an example, from 2010 to 2012, one of the authors taught four semesters of a course focusing on academic writing in English at a Japanese university in preparation

汉语和日语有很多相同、相似之处，尤其是汉字。汉字由中国传入日本，汉语的汉字与日

岐阜大学地域科学部 Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University / 岐阜大学教育学部 Faculty of Education, Gifu University / 大阪大学 Osaka University / 高知学園短期大学 Kochi

Second, both the questionnaire and speech data indicate that whereas they have much declarative knowledge about the linguistic forms, students have insufficient