Where to turn?: A case study of Czech student and local advisor experiences of writing personal statements for undergraduate Anglophone admissions

Thesis

At the intersection of language learning and international student mobility, the personal statement (PS) in United States and United Kingdom university undergraduate admissions is often an English as a foreign language (EFL) learner’s first exposure to the use of English for academic purposes. This case study was inspired by an EFL secondary school student’s emotional experience confronting this challenge in the semi-peripheral context of the Czech Republic and designed around the hypothes...

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Authors: Tavakoli, M

• Type of award: MSc
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: genre; second language writing; personal statements; second language writing feedack; English for academic purposes; Czech Republic
• Subjects: Applied linguistics; second language acquisition; university admissions