Past Event

Meta-text & meta-discourse strategies and academic writing 

Kazem Lotfipour-Saedi 
(Ottawa Language Assessment Center) 

This talk will present the author’s research on meta-textual and meta-discoursal strategies, as supportive production strategies with implications for ‘enhancing’ ESL/EFL writers’ awareness of more appropriate and accurate writing, especially in academic language. 

Kazem Lotfipour-Saedi works as a Language Assessor at the National Capital Region YM-YWCA: Language Assessment and Resource Centre.  Dr. Lotfipour-Saedi has taught in universities in Iran, Australia, Japan and Canada.  He holds MA and PhD degrees in Applied Linguistics from the University of Lancaster (UK).