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challenge the status quo of power relations among cultures and languages.
It is important for teachers and administrators to engage in these inquiries
through critical lenses and constant refl ections.
Suggestions for further reading
Connor, U. (1996) Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-cultural Aspects of Second-language
Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This book synthesizes the fi ndings of contrastive rhetoric research up to the mid-
1990s and explores its relationship with other disciplines such as composition, text
linguistics, translation studies, and genre studies. It offers implications for further
research and pedagogy.
Connor, U., Nagelhout, E. and Rozycki, W.V. (eds) (2008) Contrastive Rhetoric:
Reaching to Intercultural Rhetoric. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing
Company.
As the most updated edited volume, this book provides a range of foci, perspectives,
and approaches to contrastive (intercultural) rhetoric studies. It contains
data-based studies in specifi c genres, pedagogical issues and future directions of
intercultural rhetoric.
Kubota, R. (2005) Unfi nished knowledge: The story of Barbara. In H. Luria, D.M.
Seymour and T. Smoke (eds) Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and
Applications for Teachers (pp. 107–113). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
This is a fi ctional narrative about a university-level writing teacher who experiences
various conceptualizations of cultural difference in her private and professional
life. It provides readers with some concrete examples of how these
conceptualizations might be put into practice.
Kubota, R. and Lehner, A. (2004) Toward critical contrastive rhetoric. Journal of
Second Language Writing 13, 7–27.
This article synthesizes criticisms of contrastive rhetoric research from theoretical
and pedagogical points of view and offers postmodern, poststructuralist, and
postcolonial approaches to contrastive rhetoric. Critical engaged practice in relation
to cultural difference is proposed.
References
Ädel, A. (2008) Metadiscourse across three varieties of English: American, British,
and advanced-learner English. In U. Connor, E. Nagelhout and W.V. Rozycki
(eds) Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to Intercultural Rhetoric (pp. 45–62).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Ariza, E.N. (2006) Not for ESOL Teachers: What Every Classroom Teacher Needs to
Know About the Linguistically, Culturally, and Ethnically Diverse Student. Boston,
MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Bloch, J. (2008) Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context: What we can learn
about one from the other. In U. Connor, E. Nagelhout and W.V. Rozycki (eds)
Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to Intercultural Rhetoric (pp. 257–273). Amsterdam:
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Bloch. J. and Chi, L. (1995) A comparison of the use of citations in Chinese and
English academic discourse. In D. Belcher and G. Braine (eds) Academic Writing
in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy (pp. 231–274). Norwood,
NJ: Ablex.