CHUNKS IN L2 WRITING: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FROM GERMAN UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE ENTRANCE EXAMS

Sandra McGury, Nadja Wulff

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Before their enrollment in a German university, international prospective students face the challenge of mastering coherent written texts for language entrance exams which assess the test takers’ ability to compare and contrast, discuss, or argue for a position using the appropriate linguistic tools and following norms conforming to the accepted standards within German academia. This paper discusses how test takers perform in such tasks and which strategies they make use of.

 

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chunks, L2 writing, German as a second language, German as a foreign language, German language exams, L2 writing strategies

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v7i2.4781

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