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Linguistic Challenges Lived by University Students in Bogotá in the Development of Academic LiteracyKeywords: academic writing, context-specific instruction, culturally sensitive instruction, linear rhetorical structure. Abstract: the focus of this paper is on the challenges that colombian university students live when developing academic writing in english as a foreign language. at the macro level, it points to the importance of a theoretically informed understanding of teaching practices in elt; at the micro level it intends to sensitize elt practitioners, and particularly academic writing instructors, on the diverse challenges students - particularly non-native learners - experience when appropriating a largely unknown discourse upon entry to the university. excerpts from participants in a two-year study intertwine with a theoretical discussion on academic writing are presented.
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