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Title:
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Publishing in Refereed Journals: Perceptions, challenges, and strategies
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Author:
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Yin Ling Cheung
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Purdue University
, Linguistics Program
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Degree Date:
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2009
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Sociolinguistics
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Director(s):
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Tony Silva
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Abstract:
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This study examines the first time publishing experience of non-native
English speaking doctoral students at three public universities in Hong
Kong. The purpose was to gain an understanding of the perceptions of Hong
Kong non-native English speaking doctoral students as writers of journal
articles, their difficulties in getting papers published in refereed
journals, the strategies they use to cope with difficulties ranging from
writing to publishing, and their perceptions of their training on research
publications in Hong Kong. Data were collected through in-depth interviews
with six non-native English speaking applied linguistics doctoral students
in Hong Kong, interviewees' various drafts and the final version of the
first refereed journal paper, journal reviewers' comments on the
interviewees' papers, my correspondence with journal editors, mission
statements of journals, and content / theme in that particular issue of the
final published paper. Results show that a majority of the interviewees
exhibited mixed feelings towards writing in English for publication.
Lacking motivation and lacking confidence were typical problems encountered
by Hong Kong doctoral students in publishing in refereed journals. This
study suggests strategies to cope with the difficulties in academic
publishing and discusses its contributions to research, theory, and practice.
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