Text of Interactions: An Analysis of Written Discourse in Korean University Students' English Composition

This study examines the features of Korean EFL students' letter writing at a university in Korea. The data comprised interviews and examples of letter writing. The findings revealed that students engaged in unique ways in which they oriented their meaning-making to broad views concerning rhetorics and components. Students' approaches involved a particular context and the recontextualized English formal letter, which reflects their textual interactions in writing. This paper concludes that specific discourse communities, life-world, and learning purposes impact on students' English writing.